Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
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Here is a neat one. I give it a tie between two. The C-47 and the B-24.
The C-47 was with the Allies in all theaters hauling cargo, jeeps, troops and even towing gliders. You could even get a 105 howitzer in it if you were careful. During D-Day, it covered the skies dropping anything that could be parachuted or dropped without a chute. And it towed two gliders each full of troops. It flew over the Hump in China but it was chancy on that one since the hump was hard pressed against the C-47s max altitude. But it was used anyway.
When you stripped out the bomb racks out of the B-24, it left a lot of room for cargo. And it wasn't limited so much for altitude limitations. No, it wasn't pressurized and if you took it up so high, everyone had to be on oxygen. But the range meant it could just about fly anywhere with quite a cargo or troop load if you could get it in the door. It was used by almost all Generals for transports as well. And when you needed to get things over the Hump in China it did it great with little danger.
I think the C-47 inches the B-24 out though since it was there weeks before the US started in on WWII and was there long after WWII ended. And it could handle outsized cargo because of it's wide side cargo door.
The C-47 was with the Allies in all theaters hauling cargo, jeeps, troops and even towing gliders. You could even get a 105 howitzer in it if you were careful. During D-Day, it covered the skies dropping anything that could be parachuted or dropped without a chute. And it towed two gliders each full of troops. It flew over the Hump in China but it was chancy on that one since the hump was hard pressed against the C-47s max altitude. But it was used anyway.
When you stripped out the bomb racks out of the B-24, it left a lot of room for cargo. And it wasn't limited so much for altitude limitations. No, it wasn't pressurized and if you took it up so high, everyone had to be on oxygen. But the range meant it could just about fly anywhere with quite a cargo or troop load if you could get it in the door. It was used by almost all Generals for transports as well. And when you needed to get things over the Hump in China it did it great with little danger.
I think the C-47 inches the B-24 out though since it was there weeks before the US started in on WWII and was there long after WWII ended. And it could handle outsized cargo because of it's wide side cargo door.