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TS422, Liverpool (Read 207 times)
Oct 30th, 2007 at 4:38pm
Nemo.   Ex Member

 
Some of the Photo's off the Dakota at Liverpool from yesterday:
Side on
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101st Airbourne Division
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Looking Towards the Engine from the rear stairs
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Looking towards the Cockpit
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RAF, USAAF and RCAF
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Sadly the pic of the operational roles never turned out at all, but this is a list of the roles it carried out:
42-100882 . TS422
Verified Military Operational ROles
1944 - 1966
U.S.A.A.F. . R.A.F . R.C.A.F.
Troop Carrier
Paratoroop Transport
Assult Glider Tug
Assult Glider "Snatch" Recovery Tug
Cargo Freighter & Re- Supply
search And Rescue
"Fitted with Skii's", JATO Rockets and Sun Compass
Multi-Engine Aircraft Trainer


Thanks for Looking.
 
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Reply #1 - Oct 30th, 2007 at 6:18pm

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Beautiful photo's Johns!! Cool Cool
 

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Reply #2 - Oct 30th, 2007 at 6:37pm

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There I was thinking that a "TSxxx" serial was far too late an RAF serial for the war...

...but your last pic explained it all! Cheesy
 
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Reply #3 - Oct 31st, 2007 at 3:24pm

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Beautiful!!  I have yet to be priveleged enough to get to walk inside one of these, but someday I will step foot in one!
 

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