Remarkably, the SAAF is moving to discard its C-47s while, at the same time, elsewhere around the globe, turboprop versions of the venerable transport continue to win orders. The South African ...

In September 1944, 582 men of the 10th Parachute Battalion boarded their C-47s in England and dropped into the inferno of Arnhem as part of Operation Market Garden. Just days later, only 36 men ...