ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339492
| Date: | Sunday 17 September 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-101004 |
| MSN: | 19467 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 15 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | 3 km E of Groesbeek -
 Netherlands
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Langar-USAAF Station AAF-490 |
| Langar-USAAF Station AAF-490 |
Shot down by flak and crash-landed near Groesbeek during Operation Market Garden.
All ten paratroopers of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped from the burning airplane. Two crew members were killed.
Sources:
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment Association
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