The plane was capable of carrying up to 15,000 pounds of cargo. During WWII, the C-46 Commando was utilized primarily as a cargo and troop transport aircraft. It filled a crucial niche as a high ...

(Here is a look at the cities destroyed by the USA in World War II.) Though cargo planes were widely used in WWII, transporting troop and material in both the European and Pacific theaters ...

World War II saw a great deal of innovation in ... More than that, multiple nations fielded a variety of fighters, bombers, cargo, and transport aircraft, though the fighters and the bombers ...

(Here is a look at the cities destroyed by the USA in World War II.) While cargo planes played a significant WWII role, transporting troops and materials in Europe and the Pacific, fighter and ...

"Lady Luck" is a retrofitted World War II era Douglas DC-3 cargo plane perched in the trees. The U.S. Marine Corps used the planes for military transport between Guam, Midway, and Pearl Harbor.

A US military cargo plane returned to a World War II airstrip on Saturday, a site in the Pacific region that Marines had to reclaim. "The landing of the C-130 on the resurfaced runway after many ...

Remnants of a Louisville factory where cargo planes were built during World War II are gone, but the legacy of the aircraft made there remains. In 1942, the U.S. government constructed a plant on ...

A versatile transport aircraft Though produced at the latter end of WWII, the Mars fleet supported US Navy operations by flying cargo between Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. The flying boats were ...

It was a two-engine cargo and passenger plane that shuttled supplies across the Pacific Ocean for the United States Marines during World War II. Now, this 1941 DC-3 is the Antigo, Wis. area's ...