Douglas Dakota aircraft

6th Airborne Division dropping on Salisbury Plain in preparation for D-Day.

Men from 1st Parachute Battalion emplane a Dakota aircraft for a drop at Souk-El-Arba.

Photo taken from jumping door of Douglas Dakota aircraft. A second plane can be seen through the open door.

Paratroopers training in a Douglas Dakota aircraft. The strop is attached to the floor of the aircraft.

Number 1 of the stick stands in the door of a Dakota ready to jump.

Paratrooper looks out a Douglas Dakota aircraft window for briefed landmarks on approaching the drop zone.

Paratroopers getting ready for training jumps out of a Douglas Dakota aircraft.

Last minute map check before training jump from a Douglas Dakota.

The first of a parachute stick waits for the green light before jumping from the aircraft.

Rows of Dakota Aircraft prior to take-off for Arnhem, Sept 17th 1944

Large scale Rhine reheasal. Dakotas fly over drop zone dropping troops and supplies.

A British paratrooper looks out of the window as his Dakota approaches Germany.

Paratrooper looks contemplative in a Dakota aircraft en route to the Rhine.

Parachutist exiting a Douglas Dakota during a training jump in India

Ted Pool exiting from a Dakota for a lake landing, Tatton Park c.1945

Former C-47 Glider Tug converted to civilian use by Derby Airways.

KN628 former transport of Field Marshal Montgomery in Derby Aviation livery

Members of 12th Para Bn form up by a Dakota aircraft, undated.

Dakota aircraft YSK p205

Dakota Paras boarding a C47, probably taken in 1951 during C Leslie's para training

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

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

An Airborne jeep lashed up inside a Dakota, c.1944.

Part of Tony Hibbert's formation over West Holland en route to Arnhem

Paratroops jumping from C47 Dakota, Palestine, 1946

CLEs carried underneath a Dakota, c1946.

CLEs dropping from a Dakota, c1946.

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

15th Battalion boarding C-47 during training exercises at Netheravon, c.1947.

Members of 6th Para Bn emplaning a Dakota probably for Ex Longstop 1947

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

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

View after exiting a Dakota over DZ-K Normandy, June 2010

C-47 'Drag em Oot' used during commemorative jumps in Normandy, June 2010

Emplaning a Dakota for the Normandy DZ-K commemorative jump, June 2010

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

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

Dakota Gate Guardian, Merville Barracks, Colchester

Interior View of Dakota, Merville Barracks, Colchester

A Dakota, from The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Performed a Fly Past after the Medal Parade, Colchester, June 2011

'Drag em Oot' and the BBMF Dakota at Eindhoven airbase, 22 September 2012.

Commemorative jump from a Dakota, Ginkelse Heide, 22 September 2012.

A picture of a Dakota flying over Ginkle Heath, near Arnhem, 22 September 2012.

'Drag em Oot' waiting for take off Eindhoven airbase, 22 September 2012.