C47 "TOOIE"

[philsave]

I'm searching for the unit, the serial number and the individual call sign for C47 nicknamed "TOOIE" as to 1944.
Thanks for your help.
Phil

[Snautzer]

N2312G and according to the FAA, the serial is 33216

see http://www.ruudleeuw.com/guestphotos-14.htm

[DavidIsby]

According to the standard reference ( Jennifer Gradige, The Douglas Dc-1/DC-2/DC-3, the First Seventy Years, v. 2 2006: Tonbridge, Air Britain, pp. 608-09)

Construrction number 16468/33216 was built as 44-76884, a TC-47B-35-DK.

Delivered May 1945
Becomes US Navy R4D-7, Clinton, 15 May 1945 as BuAer 99838
NANS Clinton July 1945
VRS-1 January 1946
ATU VPB-23 April 1946
Jacksonville June 1946
VMU Jacksonville January 1947
A&T Quonset Point July 1947
El Toro as R4D-6R August 1948
Anacostia 8 August 1951
NrtTrsPool Glenview 7 January 1954
NARTU Anacostia 1 September 1955
After that, withdrawn in 56, civvy street in 57, becomes N2312G in 76.

As a stateside R4D, would probably have been in standard USAAF OD/dark green overspray uppers/neutral grey undersurfaces, with the BuAer number small or not there on the fin but its last 2 or 3 numbers in large white numerals as an identifier.

The name and 45938 number appear from this source to date to its 93-04 incarnation outside a restaraunt.

[Revi16]

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/0...stored-031112/

[philsave]

Thanks

Phil

[patelie]

Originally Posted by Revi16

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/0...stored-031112/

Hi
How a plane delivered in May 1945 (15 May exactly) could be involved in D-day invasion!!

[ClinA-78]

Hi Phil,

Welcome on board!

ClinA-78