Douglas Dakota aircraft

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Paratroopers boarding a Dakota, wearing the X-Type parachute, c.1940s

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Victor Cox by a Dakota with fellow Paras, circa 1945-46.

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A practice drop from a Dakota, Northern India, 1945

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Men of 5 Platoon B Company 8th Battalion just before take off for Rhine Crossing, 1945

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Men from 4 Platoon B Company 8th Battalion before take off for Rhine Crossing. 1945

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Members of 7th (LI) Para Bn pose for a group shot in front of an RAF Dakota c 1945/6

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Field Marshal Lord Montgomery arrives on a Dakota to inspect 15th (Kings) Battalion, Mauripur, India, June 1946

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Sgt Dick Southwood with members of 113 Squadron, Dakota Flight, RAF Aqir, Palestine, 22 November 1946

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Sgt Dick Southwood and members of 113 Sqn in front of a C47 under repair, RAF Aqir, Palestine, 1946

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Men of 2nd Para Battalion fly to Jordan from RAF Kabrit Egypt for an exercise, 1952

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Dakotas dropping on Renkum Heath – first day of the Battle of Arnhem, 17 September 1944 by Geoffrey E Lea.

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WW2 veterans at the official opening of Merville Barracks, Colchester, 2006.

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Some of the British participants in the Op Amherst Commemorative Jump, 2010.

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Jumping on the Op Amherst Commemoration April 2010 from a C47 Dakota, No 1 in 2nd Stick.

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Participants in the Op Amherst Commemorative Jump, April 2010.

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Dakota low-level flypast at Normandy DZ-K, June 2010

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Dakota low-level Flypast at DZ-K in Normandy, June 2010

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