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Old 14th May 2015, 14:10
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Dakota's flying to Greece 1944

Hello guys!

I am getting directly to the subject. Napoleon Zervas, the Greek Democratic Army's (EDES) Chief, reports that during September 1944 some flights between Italy and the airfield of Paramythia in Western Greek took place. Among them, there was a very important event that happened on 26 September 1944 in Caserta/Italy, which was the Caserta Agreement. Zervas reports that he flew to Bari from Paramythia in "an aircraft" with some other officers for the council and flew back to Paramythia some days later.
There is quite a number of such transport flights reported in Zerva's diary between Paramythia and Bari, but nothing is reported on the type of aircraft. Many of those flights were executed during nighttime.

There is a photograph showing two members of EDES standing before a C-47 Dakota at the airfield of Bari late Septmember 1944, while the decription writes:

"Mr Komninos Pyromaglou with Stavros Metaxas before their flight to Greece after The Caserta Agreement."

And here goes the photo:


It seems clearly that the above aircraft is a C-47 Dakota. Now the question is, which RAF Squadron (if it was the RAF and not the USAAF) used to execute such transport flights between Bari and Paramythia? I thought it would be 267 Squadron but searched in the ORB and found nothing regarding such flights. Nevertheless, 267 used to have a pegasus figured painted on the nose, but the above aircraft apperas "clean". Which other Squadrons used to fly Dakota's from Southern Italy during Fall of 1944?

Could these flights be characterized as "black flights" and thus not refered in the ORB's (if it was for 267 Sqn)?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks a lot!
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