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| Date: | Monday 9 November 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-18587 |
| MSN: | 4712 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Espirítu Santo -
 Vanuatu
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Crashed after takeoff from one of the airfields on the island of Espiritu Santo. Destination was an airfield in Guadalcanal Province, Solomon Islands.
Sources:
Pacificwrecks.com
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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