Italeri Douglas C-47 Skytrain (1:72)

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Plastic model, prints and instructions.

The package does not contain glue, brushes, paints or other accessories.

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Plastic model Italeri 0127 - Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft in 1: 772 scale for gluing. Model length 270 mm, difficulty 2. Package contains GREAT DECALS FOR 2 VERSIONS.

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Douglas C-47A / B Skytrain was an American twin-engine transport aircraft, which was a military version of the Douglas DC-3 transport aircraft, known as RAF Douglas C.Mk.I to IV Dakota. The aircraft served not only as a cargo, but also as a paratrooper under the name Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, towing for gliders, reconnaissance, rescue and training TC-47B. The basic designation of the US Navy was for these R4D aircraft with a version number added. He participated in World War II (Operation Market Garden, Overlord, Husky, Varsity and Avalanche), the war in Korea and Vietnam. 10,654 units were produced in the USA, over 2,000 of them were produced under license in the USSR as Lisunov Li-2, another 485 were produced in Japan at Nakajima and Showa. The type was included in the post-war Czechoslovak Air Force under the designation D 47, forty of the 72 purchased C-47 flew from CSA.

In Vietnam, it was most used in the AC-47 Gunship, but was better known as Spooky. In this version, on the left (pilot's) side in place of the last 2 windows and permanently open cargo doors mounted three pieces of 7.62 mm machine guns and had the task of circling the target and concentrated fire from all three machine guns at once literally chop the target. Hence the nickname "Spooky - ghost", because the results of such an attack were really scary.

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