C-46

Aircraft flown by Richard D. Harris during WWII--C-46 Commando.

Chinese workers unloading barrels from a C-46 transport during WWII.

Richard "Dick" Harris in service in Lewiston, Idaho, in 1942. Hand colored image. From February to October 1945, Richard Daniel Harris flew C-46 military transport aircraft between India and China through the Himalayas in support of the war effort against Japan, carrying every kind of material or personnel over "the Hump." Only a young man only in his early twenties...

A flyer gazes out of the open cargo door of a cargo aircraft (a C-47 or C-46) during WWII.

1st Lt. Irving Woodrow DeGon was killed on January 20, 1944, Chabua, India, in a plane crash while piloting a C-46 (#741) during a take off from an airfield, along with crew members named Smith, Shea, and Gray. He was starting his 8th month as a transport pilot in the India-China Wing Army Transportation Corps (ICWATC), and had made 30...

Chinese soldiers climb down ladder out of C-46 transport plane. During WWII.

Guarded gates of the Nationalist Kunming Air Force Officer Training School during WWII, with C-46 transports.

Guarded gates of the Nationalist Kunming Air Force Officer Training School during WWII, with C-46 transports.

Guarded gates of the Nationalist Kunming Air Force Officer Training School during WWII, with C-46 transports, and a fuel trailer (on the far right).