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Last Two C-47
“Gooney Birds”
Are Retired
ANCHORAGE W> — The last
two C-47 transport planes assign
ed to Elmendorf Air Force Base
have left Alaska — ending an era
of use of the craft by the military
here. *
The transports — affectionately
known as Gooney Birds — left
Elmendorf Tuesday bound for
Davis Monthan AFB in Arizona
and final retirement.
For more than 20 years the de
pendable Gooneys were the back
bone of airlift operations around
the world.
There was gloom along the flight
line here as the planes made their
takeoffs. The Air Force reported
their departure with “heavy
hearts and deep feelings of nos
talgia.”
One veteran airman commented:
“I’ve never been on a base with
out them before — I just don’t
know what we’ll do now that
they’re gone.”
The C-47 has a longer active
record of flying than any other
aircraft currently in the Air Force
inventory.
It had its first flight as the
civilian DC-3 in February 1932,
and was adopted by the Air Force
sometime prior to Pearl Harbor
and given its military designation
of C-47 “Skytrain.”
The Alaskan theater of opera
tions first saw the Gooneys in late
1942, when the craft were pressed
into service as command aircraft
and later used to haul supplies and
evacuate wounded from the Aleu
tian campaigns.
Gooneys were the first aircraft
to land at both the North and
South Poles, and it was an Alaskan
Air Command C-47 that was the
first to land at an ice island, in
1952, to establish the first of a
number of geophysical projects.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bulenhoff, of
Flint, Mich., enjoyed a visit to the
Kougarok where they were guests
of the Tweet family at the mine
and learned how to pan gold and
see how the Alaskan operator re
trieves the precious metal.
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