The Dakota

Dakota & Waco CG-4 (RAF Hadrian Glider). (left-hand panel)
Mike Gee

In September 1944, 442 Troop Carrier Group of the U.S. Army Air Force arrived in Chilbolton with four squadrons of C-47 Dakotas. On the 19th September, forty C-47 Dakotas towing Waco CG-4 gliders, loaded with troops and equipment, took off from Chilbolton for, “Operation Market Garden,” the Allied Invasion of Holland.

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