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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Because part of the cargo they decided to take ... But he says the conversations with WWII veterans and their descendants who have connections to planes like the Ready 4 Duty are what make the ...