Just before D-Day, Britain and America put thousands of paratroopers onto planes and rained them all over the French countryside behind enemy lines. To do it, one of the planes they picked was the C-47, a version of the DC-3 with all of the frills and creature comforts taken out and nothing but seating for two dozen paratroopers aboard.
This model version, complete with invasion stripes, is designed to look just like it's ready to drop its troops and turn for England.
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