Douglas C-47A Skytrain 42-100521 'Night Fright' 79th TCS, 436th TCG, Membury, 5th/6th June 1944.

With the long-anticipated invasion of Europe now imminent, some new arrivals turned up at US Station 466 Membury airfield in the last few days of May 1944, the paratroopers of the famous 101st Airborne Division ‘Screaming Eagles’, members of the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion and a detachment of the 326th Airborne Medical Company. These men would be putting their lives in the hands of the crews of the home-based Douglas C-47 crews but would have trained exhaustively for the historic mission which lay ahead of them. Many would take part in detailed briefings to give them information regarding flight routes, timings, drop-zones, and known enemy anti-aircraft gun locations, and on 3rd June, base personnel were given orders to paint black and white stripes around the rear fuselage and wings of all their aircraft.

• Item Length - Without Packaging (cm): 27
• Item Height - Without Packaging (cm): 6.4
• Item Width - Without Packaging (cm): 40.4
• Item Scale: 1:72 Scale
• License line: Produced under license. Boeing, their distinctive logos, product markings and trade dress are trademarks of The Boeing Company
• Finish: Painted
• Colour: Multi
• Wingspan (mm): 404
• Detailed Crew Figures: Yes
• Optional Undercarriage Down: Yes
• Rotatable Propeller(s)/Rotor(s): Yes
• Aviation Photo-etched Aerial(s): Yes
• What's Inside: 1 x Aircraft, 1x Stand