The Pacific (HBO Miniseries)Instructions for loading a jeep into a C-47 cargo plane from Loading of Field Artillery Materiel for Air Transport, Instruction Memorandum, Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, March 1943.
The C-47 airplane. This airplane has a pay load of 4900 pounds when loaded with 450 gallons of gasoline and is capable of carrying the 37-mm gun, the 75-mm howitzer and the 105-mm howitzer, M3, but no heavier weapons. Early models have a door only 70 inches wide; later models have a door 84½ inches wide which permits the 1/4-ton truck to be loaded. Weapons and vehicles are loaded by hand by means of a ramp.
Loading the ¼-ton truck into a cargo airplane.
Loading the ¼-ton truck (continued).
Interior of the C-47 cargo airplane.
I felw EC-47′s out of DaNang RVN. Eight hour missions 135 missions. We we were the predicessor of the unmanned drones. We had $10 million of super snooper computers on board.