The plane was capable of carrying up to 15,000 pounds of cargo. Military service in WWII During WWII, the C-46 Commando was utilized primarily as a cargo and troop transport aircraft.

While cargo planes played a significant WWII role, transporting troops and materials in Europe and the Pacific, fighter and bomber aircraft saw greater production. Consequently, no transport ...

The Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Carrier Fighter was the most-produced fighter in the Japanese fleet in WWII. Between 1940 and 1945, Japan produced nearly 11,000 A6M2 aircraft.

The U.S. government helped Louisville become a hub for cargo plane assembly during World War II. Then after the war ended, plant workers assembled tractors.

In his vivid memoirs of the operation, Maj Gen William H Tunner, a US Air Force pilot, remembers navigating his C-46 cargo plane over villages on steep slopes, broad valleys, deep gorges, narrow ...