USAAF Nose Art Research Project


 

Hedda Hopper
C-47

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Hedda Hopper

Christened by actress, later gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper at the Douglas Aircraft Co factory, Long Beach on 22nd May 1944. Ms Hopper broke a bag of confetti over a propellor. This C47 was equipped as a ambulance, casualty evacuation plane.





 
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