Date:	Tuesday 26 December 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47B-5-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	43-48718
MSN:	25979/14534
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	S of Bastogne -   Belgium
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The aircraft was hit by flak and ground machine gun fire during a supply drop mission in Belgium.
All crew bailed out after a fire erupted in the cockpit. One crew member's parachute did not open and the other was killed by enemy machine gun fire from the ground.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR

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