JBK DC-4 V.3 by Jens Kristensen.

[beana51]

During the Korean War, Flying Tiger aircraft were chartered to transport troops and supplies from the United States to Asia; Flying Tigers later received a cargo route award to Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. The airline also played a major role in the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line, flying equipment to remote outposts in northern Canada and Alaska.This would qualify the DC-4 as a war bird!...a great plane,and legendary air line!!

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[jimslost]

A gentleman's airplane if ever the was one. My dad was one of many who flew them across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the last two years of WWII, which I guess "makes their bones" as warbirds by any definition. He said he carried mostly troops and "stuff" into the war zones, and more often than not wounded soldiers home.

Somewhere in my gee-whiz files I have an article written by the late Don Downie relating his experiences flying DC-4s for Flying Tigers during the Korean War. He said they crammed 50 GIs into the cabin and included a picture of same. It did not look like a way I would have wanted to spend the 12 hour flight from Honolulu to the mainland ....

But flying is always much better than riding!

[beana51]

Thank you Sir,Great memories of yer Dad,thanx for sharing and keeping his his "STUFF" alive!!.I was shipping out during that war,..sitting for hours..total confusion..ready to board..I do not remember if it was a Flying Tigers...suddenly a command jeep pulled up,about 50 names were called I was one of them,, and thats another story.....I would bet yer Dad read ,or knew Guy Murchie,Author of ''Song of the Sky'' (1954),..You may have read it yourself....a must read!....Thanx to Jens also,great works!Cheers...Vin!!