Name This...(361)

[Brady]

???

[Kadrin]

C-47?

[rtrapasso]

Looks like folks dumping cargo out the side door of a transport aircraft. I think the cockpit is to the front, so i think the cargo door is on the wrong side for a C-47, so i'll guess C-46 off the top of my head.

[DuckofTindalos]

C-46, flying over the Hump.

[grossmetzger]

from the interior i would guess its a c-47. the door is the compartment in the back of the plane.
if it is the front door of a c-46 those guys would dump the cargo into the spinning props....

[Bradley7735]

Do we know the plane is in the air while the cargo is being unloaded? I'm guessing that even at 5,000 feet it's VERY cold and I wouldn't be without a shirt while unloading cargo at probably any altitude.

I'm guessing the plane is on the ground while they're unloading.

nevermind, I see the guy's pant leg is whipping in the breeze. It must be quite hot to unload a flying plane without a shirt on.

[DuckofTindalos]

Just a wild stab in the dark , but could we be looking at a cargo drop to the Chindits? Low altitude delivery, no parachute. Just a thought...

[tacticon]

Once the ineffectiveness of torpedoes became widely known, the war department tested the effects of dropping large marshmellows.

[Cap Mandrake]

All I know someone is in a whole lotta trouble. Just on first pass, they could have at least two federal agencies crawling all over them.

OSHA violation 1743-A (egress of aerodynamically unencumbered cargo from a means of conveyance for non-terrestrial transportation)

OSHA violation 1743-A(ii) (effectors of said egress not in possession of OSHA approved restraint devices)

Dept of Agriculture rules and regs. violation 122-BH/S (1939).........excessive contamination of food products with human exocrine secretions and abdominal, throracic and axillary pilliated material.

[Brady]

C-47, it is[:)]


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RAAF C-47, obviously drping suplys, acording to image source.

[crsutton]

It is rare photo of the Army's failed burial at air ceremony. Briefly tried in late 1942, the program was a dissapointing failure and hushed up due to excessive civilian casualties and reduced ground troop morale when the bodies smashed into the front lines.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

It is rare photo of the Army's failed burial at air ceremony. Briefly tried in late 1942, the program was a dissapointing failure and hushed up due to excessive civilian casualties and reduced ground troop morale when the bodies smashed into the front lines.

[:D] LOL