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Below is a list of Douglas DC-3 and C-47 books and literature. There is even a DC-3 e-book (Electronic Book)

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International Standard Book Number (ISBN) was ten digits but changed to 13 digits on 1 January 2007

OCLC = Online Computer Library Center

Below the table are images of the front covers of some DC-3 books

Book title	Author	Publisher	Year	ISBN-10 or library of congress Number or OCLC number	ISBN-13	Comments
A Celebration of the DC-3	Arthur Piercy	The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd	1995	1856482456
And far from home	John Balfe	The MacMillan Company of Australia	1985	ISBN 0 333 41507 8		Flying RAAF Transports in the Pacific War and after
Aviation in Northamptonshire	Michael L. Gibson	Northants	May-82	ISBN-10: 090539108X	ISBN-13: 978-0905391083
Behind the cockpit door	Arthur Whitlock	Merlin Books	Apr-96	ISBN 10: 0863037453 / 0-86303-745-3	ISBN 13: 9780863037450
Berlin Airlift	Arthur Pearcy	Swan Hill Press; illustrated edition	Feb-98	ISBN-10: 1853108456	ISBN-13: 978-1853108457
Betsy the story of a DC-3	Martin J Willing	Martin J Willing	1989
British Dakotas	Maurice J. Wickstead Robert G. Cooper	The Aviation Hobby Shop	1984	ISBN 0 907178 10 3
C-47	Lechoslaw Musialkowski	Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej	1988			Polish book. Samolot Transportowy #125
C-47 Skytrain in action	Larry Davis	Squadron/Signal Publication # 149	1995	ISBN-10: 0897473299	ISBN-13: 978-0897473293
C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI. Osprey Combat Aircraft 66	David Isby	Osprey Publishing	2007/02/27	ISBN-10: 1846030463	ISBN-13: 978-1846030468
C-47/R4D Units of the ETO and MTO. Osprey Combat Aircraft 54	David Isby	Osprey Publishing	2005/01/01	ISBN-10: 1841767506	ISBN-13: 978-1841767505
Classic American Airlines	Geza Szurovy	MBI Publishing Company	2003/12/	ISBN: 0760316562	ISBN-13: 9780760316566
Dakota at war	Arthur Pearcy	Ian Allan	Jan-82	ISBN-10: 0711012172	ISBN-13: 978-0711012172
Dakota, DC-3/C-47 Onder Nederlandse Vlag	Theo Wesselink	De Alk	1985	ISBN 90 6013 940 2 DFL 39,90
Dakotas and Beeches in Europe	Coert Munk, Maarten Brouwer and Eric Munk	Airnieuws Nederland	1993	ISBN 90-74250-07-6
Dakotas in the Antarctic	Henry M. Dater	History and Research Division, U S Naval Support Force	1970	OCLC 152429207
DC-3	Arthur Pearcy	Ballantine's Weapons Book 44	1975	345-34523-7-200		History of the 2nd WW Weapons, the epic story of the great workhorse of three major wars
DC-3 and C-47 Gooney Birds	Michael O'Leary	Motorbooks International	Sep-92	ISBN-10: 087938543X	ISBN-13: 978-0879385439	Includes the DC-2, DC-3, C-47, B-18 Bolo, B-23 Dragon, the Basler turboprop Goonies, and many more
DC-3 Down Under	Stewart Wilson	Dylowl PTY LTD	1989			photo book on Australian DC-3/C-47 civil & military
DC-3 Production list	Sten Wilkinson	L.A.A.S.	1968-1970			LAAS London Amateur Aviation Society
DC-3 Production List 1 – 18	John and Maureen Woods	Airline Publications	Jan-80	0143-5604
DC-3 Production List 19 – 33	John and Maureen Woods	John and Maureen Woods	Mar-82
De geschiedenis van de Douglas DC-3 Dakota	Bart van der Klaauw	Avia/WYT	1979	ISBN 90 6007 061 5
De Legendarische Vlucht van de Uiver	Wim Kroese	Teleboek B.V.	1983	ISBN 90 6122 130 7		A memorial book on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the famous Uiver flight in the London to Melbourne race
De Melbourne race	H.P. Geerke	J.M. Meulenhoff	1934			The 1934 London to Melbourne race
Development and Deployment of Fixed-Wing Gunships 1962-1972	Jack S.Ballard	Office of Air Force History. GPO	1982
Donald W. Douglas: A Heart with Wings	Wilber H. Morrison	Iowa State Press; 1st edition	1991/09/30	ISBN-10: 0813818346	ISBN-13: 978-0813818344
Douglas C-47 C-53 The type in use with Italian A.F.	Claudio Tatangelo	Monografie Aeronautiche Italiane # 08	1980
Douglas C-47 Skytrain Famous Aircraft of the world # 66		Bunrin-Do	1975			Description of the type
Douglas C-47A, ESK.727 History of C-47 in Royal Danish A.F.	Danish Military
DOUGLAS C-47D, C-53-DO	Hanfried Schliephake		1987
Douglas DC-2	N Geldhof, P Kok	Bonnevolle BV	1997
Douglas DC-2 "Uiver"	E Smits	Harris Uitgeverij	1934
Douglas DC-3	Austin J. Brown	Specialist Marketing International	Jan-95	ISBN-10: 071102183X	ISBN-13: 978-0711021839
Douglas DC-3 60 Years and Counting	Ed Davies, Scott A. Thompson, Nicholas A. Veronico	Aero Vintage Books	1995	ISBN-10: 0963754343	ISBN-13: 978-0963754349
Douglas DC-3 80 Glorious Years	Geoff Jones	Fonthill Media	2015/05/22		ISBN-13: 978-1-78155-103-5
Douglas DC-3 Dakota	M.J. Hooks	Haynes, Yeovil	1985	ISBN 0 85429 449 X
Douglas DC-3 Flugzenge du geschichte machten Douglas DC-3	Joachim Wolfer	Motorbuch Verlag	1992	ISBN 3-613-01451-3
Douglas DC-3 L2D		Maru Mechanic # 31 JAP	1981			Description of the DC-3/C-47 and Japanese variants
Douglas DC-3 survivors volume 1	Arthur Pearcy	Aston Publications	1987	0 946627 13 4
Douglas DC-3 survivors volume 2	Arthur Pearcy	Aston Publications	1988	0 946627 14 2
Douglas DC-3 The Survivors	Kengo Yamamoto	Crowood/Airlife Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition	2000/07/21	ISBN-10: 1840371528	ISBN-13: 978-1840371529
Douglas DC-3/Lisunov Li-2	Karl-Heinz Eyermann & Wolf S. Zedlitz	Deutscher Militärverlag	May-05
Douglas Propliners DC-1 - DC-7	Arthur Pearcy	Specialty Press Publishers & Wholesalers	Jan-01	ISBN: 1840372478	ISBN-13: 9781840372472
Fate is the Hunter	Ernest K. Gann	Simon & Schuster Paperbacks	1961	ISBN-10 : 0-671 63603-0	ISBN-13 : 978-0-671-63603-6
Fifty glorious years (a tribute to the Douglas DC-3 1935 - 1985)	Arthur Pearcy	Airlife Publishing	1985	ISBN-10: 0918805163	ISBN-13: 978-0918805164
Focus on the Douglas DC-2	John & Maureen Woods	The Aviation Hobby Shop	1983
Fokker-Douglas DC-2	Hugo Hooftman	Nederlandse Vliegtutg Encyclopedie	1977			Complete history of the Fokker assembled DC-2s
Geschichte aur himmel die DC-3	Sepp Moser		1905/06/11
Gooney Birds and Ferry Tails	Jon A Maguire	Schiffer Publishing	2004/01/01	ISBN-10: 0764305921	ISBN-13: 978-0764305924
Grand old lady: the story of the DC-3	Carroll V Glines, Wendell F Moseley	Pennington Press	1959	ASIN: B0007E4V2W
Green light a troop carrier squadron war from Normandy to the Rhine	Martin Wolfe	Center for Air Force History	Jun-05	ISBN-10: 0160425085	ISBN-13: 9780160425080
Gunships: A Pictorial History of Spooky	Larry Davis	Squadron/Signal Publications	Feb-82	ISBN-10: 0897471237	ISBN-13: 978-0897471237
History of the South African Air Force (1920-1990)		The Directorate Public Relations, SADF	1990
In Drie Dagen Naar Australië	K.D. Parmentier	Scheltens & Giltay	1935			Story of the 1934 London to Melbourne race by the captain of the KLM DC-2 "Uiver"
Into The Valley	Col. Charles H. Young	Woolcott Press	1995	ISBN 0-9647978-0-1
Le Dakota	Jacques Borge and Nicolas Viasnoff	E.P.A.	1980	ISBN: 2-85-120-111-5
L'histoire du Douglas DC-3	Yves Tariel	Charles-Lavauzelle, France	1985	ISBN-10: 2702501273	ISBN-13: 978-2702501276
LI-2	Boleslaw Szuman & Jacek Konczak	Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej	1976			Polish
Operation Dakota		Dakota Unlimited	1993
Over the Hump: Airlift to China	William Koenig	Ballantine Books	1972	ISBN 0345029364
Pilots notes - Dakota IV Aircraft Operating Manual	Air Ministry	Reprinted by Air Data Publications, St. Annes on Sea	Apr-05
Profile Publications No. 220 The Douglas DC-3	Arthur Pearcy	Profile Publications	Dec-70
Profile Publications No. 249 Douglas R4D variants	Arthur Pearcy	Hylton Lacy Publishers/Profile Publications Ltd	1973	850640202
Profile Publications No. 96 The Douglas DC-3 (pre-1942)	Arthur Pearcy	Profile Publications	1965 (1982 reprint)
Project 19 - A Mission Most Secret	John W. Swancara	Honoribus Press	1997	1-885354-07-X
Sixty Glorious Years, A Tribute to the Douglas DC-3 Dakota	Arthur Pearcy	Motorbooks International	1995/12/	ISBN-10: 0760301921	ISBN-13: 978-0760301920
Sluipvluchten Naar Lissabon	Ad Van Ommen	Buyten & Schipperheyn	1985	ISBN 90 6064 575 8
Survivors 97	Vince Horan	Gatwick Aviation Society	1905/06/19
THE 3 and ME	Theodore Hunt	AuthorHouse	2004/08/16	ISBN-10: 1418477710	ISBN-13: 978-1418477714
The Amazing Gooney Bird	Carroll V Glines	Schiffer Military/Aviation History	1905/06/18	ISBN: 0764300644	ISBN-13: 9780764300646
The C-47: Flying Workhorse of WW II	Richard Harvey	AuthorHouse	2005/03/28	ISBN-10: 1420816985	ISBN-13: 978-1420816983
The Dakota	Arthur Pearcy	Ian Allan	May-05	ISBN: 0711003149	ISBN-13: 9780711003149
The DC-3 50 years of legendary flight	Peter M. Bowers	Aero Pub Inc; 1st edition (May 1986)	May-86	ISBN-10: 0830681949	ISBN-13: 978-0830681945
The DC-3 and its predecessors	J. M. G. Gradidge	Air Britain (Historians) Ltd	1984	ISBN: 0851301193	ISBN-13: 9780851301198
The DC-3: The story of a Fabulous Airplane	C. V. Glines and W. F. Moseley	J. B. Lippincott	1966	66-11160
The Douglas Commercial Story	Peter Berry	Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd	1971	ISBN-10: 0851300162	ISBN-13: 9780851300160
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - The First Seventy Years - Volume 1 & Volume 2	J. M. G. Gradidge	Air-Britain (Historians)	2006	ISBN 0 85130 332 3
The Douglas DC-3	Henry Holden	Tab Books	1991	ISBN 0 8306 3450 9
The Douglas DC-3 (Famous Aircraft Series)	Len Morgan	Famous Aircraft Series, Arco Publishers	1964	ASIN: B000N5GO2A
The Douglas DC-3 (Famous aircraft series)	Len Morgan	Aero Pub	1980	ISBN-10: 0816856508	ISBN-13: 9780816856503	Famous aircraft series
The Douglas DC-3 and its predecessors update 1	J. M. G. Gradidge	Air Britain (Historians) Ltd	1987	0-85130-147-9
The Douglas DC-3 and its predecessors update 2 and world survey	J. M. G. Gradidge	Air Britain (Historians) Ltd	1993
The First Seventy Years Pt 1	Jennifer Gradidge	Air-Britain		2006	851303323
The First Seventy Years Pt 2	Jennifer Gradidge	Air-Britain		2006	851303323
The Golden Years of Flying	Tex Searle	Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. 2nd edition	Dec-08	ISBN-10: 1560277084	ISBN-13: 978-1560277088
The Legacy of the DC-3	Henry Holden	Wind Canyon Publishing	Jan-96	ISBN-10: 1879630400	ISBN-13: 978-1879630406
The Legendary DC-3	Carroll V Glines, Wendell F Moseley	Van Nostrand Rheinhold	1979	ISBN: 9780442261368
The Legendary DC-3	Carroll V Glines & Wendell F Moseley	David & Charles	1959, 1965, 1979	715379216
The plane that changed the world	Douglas J. Ingells	Aero Publisher	1905/05/19	0-8168-7503-0
Wings from Burma to the Himalayas	John W. Gordon	Wolfe Pub Co	1992/01/01	ISBN-10: 1879356104	ISBN-13: 978-1879356108

Book Douglas DC-3 80 Glorious Years Geoff Jones

Douglas DC-3 80 Glorious Years
by Geoff Jones

Like the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire, the Douglas DC-3 is an iconic aircraft design. It has endured more than any other with several hundred still in use worldwide in locations as far apart as Africa, Antarctica and the US. Many of the current operators use turbine conversions of the DC-3 mainly using Basler, SAAF and Dodson International the main proponents.

Just about every major post-war airline began their schedules with the DC-3. Many took advantage of post-war military surplus C-47s that had already written huge volumes of history with their roles with the US Army Air Corps in the Second World War such as the D-Day landings. Many enthusiast organisations still keep DC-3s airworthy and fly them for members. However, the days of DC-3 operations are now nearing an end thanks to spares unavailability, cost and the shortages of Avgas fuel in remote parts of the world.

The Douglas DC-3 is to aviation what the Volkswagen and Ford were to motoring, and what the DC-3 operators started, the 21st century Airbus/Boeing operators continued thanks to the astonishing legacy of this remarkable aircraft.

THE AUTHOR

Geoff Jones is a pilot, writer and photographer who grew up in the 1960s hearing the sounds of Cambrian Airways DC-3s thundering out of his local airport at Cardiff/Rhoose. This affection for the iconic DC-3 has been with him during a half-century of worldwide travel reporting and photographing many aspects of the world’s civil aviation scene. With fourteen civil aviation book titles to his name and thousands of magazine articles, Jones is a respected and well-known author/photographer. Flying a DC-3 in the Caribbean was a career highlight.

FORMAT

Dimensions: 248 x 172 mm
Binding: hardback
Extent: 208 pages
Illustrations: 198 black and white and 71 colour photographs
Publication date: 2015/05/22
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN: 978-1-78155-103-5

Book_Comair_The_First_Sixty_Years_British-Airways-Kulula_David_Lawrence

COMAIR
The First Sixty Years
History of BRITISH AIRWAYS and KULULA in South Africa
by: David R. Lawrence

Author Dave Lawrence takes the reader back to the conception of the airline in the middle 1940s and the setting up of the airline in 1947.

He then covers the years of Commercial Air Services (Rhodesia) (Pvt) Ltd (1946 to 1960), and the years of Commercial Air Services (Natal) (Pty) Ltd (1946 - current). Two not so well know periods in Comair's history, the training projects for the South Africa Air Force and the Israel Air Force in the late 1940s and early 1950s, are also covered in detail.

Great detail is given on the company's maintenance projects, the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam project, the years when Comair operated South African Airways' coastal schedules, the rationalisation of the airline in the period 1976 to 1992 during which the Fokker Friendships, amongst others, were introduced, and the "Game Lodge" schedules.

The airline's venture into the Jet Age in 1992 is well documented as is its association with British Airways that started in 1996 and the introduction of its low cost brand Kulula in 2001.
For the aviation historian complete detailed listings of the company's aircraft from 1946 to current is given plus two sections dealing with aircraft colour schemes, piston-/turbo-prop aircraft, and jet aircraft.

An appendix is devoted to the key personnel in the airline's history while the "Stop Press" section keeps the reader up to date with the latest development by means of colour pictures.

Book Together we Fly - Voices from the DC-3 ISBN 9781560277958

Together we Fly: Voices from the DC-3
Julie Boatman Filucci
2011

Book The Golden Years of Flying - As we Remember ISBN 9781560277088

The Golden Years of Flying: As We Remember - Frontier Airlines 1946-1986
by Tex Searle
ISBN 9781560277088

Book Douglas DC-3 The Great Wings of the Immortal Kengo Yamamoto

Douglas DC-3 The Great Wings of the Immortal
Kengo Yamamoto
2010

Book Douglas C-47 Dakota in SAAF Service A Pictorial History 1943-2010 Winston Brent800

Douglas C-47 Dakota in SAAF Service.

A Pictorial History 1943-2010

by Winston Brent

December 2010

African Aviation Series No 15

Freeworld Publications

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Book DC-3 A Legend in Her Time Bruce McAllister

DC-3 A Legend in Her Time

A 75th Anniversary Photographic Tribute

by Bruce McAllister

PRESS RELEASE

January 3, 2010

In his seventh aviation history book, Bruce McAllister brings together the largest collection of photographs of the world’s most legendary aircraft–the DC-3. The book’s release is timed to the aircraft’s 75th anniversary–hundreds of DC-3s are still in service today, almost 75 years after the first one rolled off the production line in 1935.

With seventeen chapters covering many of the civilian and military operations in which the DC-3 has participated, McAllister has gathered some 250 high quality photographs from around the world. A rich history surrounds the DC-3. In the 1930s, the DC-3—as the aircraft of choice for the world’s major air carriers—helped spur the tremendous growth in airline travel. In World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower identified the DC-3/C-47 as one of the keys to the Allies’ victory. The aircraft even served as a potent gunship in the Vietnam conflict.

DC-3 A Legend In Her Time captures this history, bringing this workhorse to life for readers through its particularly dramatic photographs.

Author available for interviews. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call (303) 444-9484.

Pre-Orders available at Amazon.com (keyword: DC-3)

Release Date: April 1, 2010

Format: Hard Cover / 8.5” X 11” Oblong

256 Pages

250 Color & B&W Photographs

ISBN: 978-0-615-22877-8

Price: $ 49.95

Publisher: Roundup Press. P.O. Box 109, Boulder, CO 80306-0109

Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago, Illinois

www.ipgbook.com

312-337-0747

My Lady The Tail Dragger 1 front page

My Lady The Tail Dragger

by Andre Balt

In this 83 page book the author writes in 23 chapters amongst other adventures, of his ordeal in the war torn countries of Mozambique, and the Sudan, in the mid 80s, and early 90s whilst doing famine relief, to the rebel torn destinations. Stories of parking the DC-3 at the end of a God-forsaken runway, finding out they were standing on a mass grave. He includes a true story of a lone refugee, running and jumping, into the open door, whilst they took off, and this poor soul, still hanging outside in the slipstream 400 feet in the air.

It has stories of the amazing capabilities of this Methuselah of the air, the famous, and near indestructible DC-3 Dakota. He carries on telling us how this beautiful aircraft, with jet-propeller engines, took him and his passengers to the South pole safely. True stories, reassuring us all, that the DC-3 is the most respected airplane ever built, and she will forever be remembered fondly by those that have ever got close to her.

My Lady The Tail Dragger is exclusively available as an e-book www.abook2read.com

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