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Donald W. Douglas was an engineer, visionary, and entrepreneur whose aircraft design revolutionized commercial and military air transport. The Douglas DC-3 and DC-4 passenger carriers became the C-47 and C-54, the workhorse transports of World War II. His C-142 provided military air transport service, and later Military Airlift Command received its first aircraft designed specifically for strategic military airlift with ease of loading, heavy lift capacity, and trans-ocean delivery capability. The C-124 made its mark during the Korean War. The Douglas Aircraft military legacy lives on in the McDonnell Douglas designed, Boeing built C-17 Globemaster III.
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