Amazon.com description: Product Description: Of all the airplanes ever built, the DC-3 has far surpassed the others in faithful service, dependability, and achievement. Born in the days of wooden propellers, it is still flying as the jet age passes and the era of space flight begins. Now in it's 8th decade of service, the "Gooney Bird" was the workhorse of the air in World War II, was called up for the Korean War, and again for the fight in Vietnam. It has been a transport, bomber, and even a fighterplane--and also, the authors say, a hospital, living quarters, telephone booth, hamburger stand, washing machine, command post, and lover's lane. "The Grand Old Lady has been shot up, shot down, bent almost beyond recognition, but never obliterated," they add. "Pilots swear at her for her slow lumbering speed and her wallowing in thunderstorms, but they pat her fat belly affectionately when she has brought them safely to the ground." THE LEGENDARY DC-3 is a peerless book about a peerless airplane.