AC-47 Gunship airplane model Military 1920-1939 particularly the Mitsubishi A6M Zero

particularly the Mitsubishi A6M Zero

the Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican had advanced electronic equipment for SAR (search and rescue) duties

but a month later - on 26 June1942 - it was re-engined with a 2000hp Pratt and Whitney R-2800 (the birth of the F6F therefore coinciding almost exactly with the great carrier Battle of Midway

The Focke Wulf did not have this problem

AC-47 Gunship airplane model Military 1920-1939 particularly the Mitsubishi A6M ZeroDouglas AC 47 Gunship airplane model. Few aircraft are as well known or were so widely used for so long as the C 47 or "Gooney Bird" as it was affectionately nicknamed. The aircraft was adapted from the DC 3 commercial airliner which appeared in 1936. The first C 47s were ordered in 1940 and by the end of WW II, 9,348 had been procured for AAF use. They carried personnel and cargo, and in a combat role, towed troop carrying gliders and dropped