Our particular C-47, named Tooie, was a part of the D-day invasion and helped to deliver allied troops through clouds of flack and gunfire as they parachuted out of the aircraft and behind enemy lines.  Tooie spent a post war career transporting cargo and wild animals. 

Tooie was rescued by IASAR from a derelict static display site by the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee. Tooie had been set to rest as a static display on a small hill overlooking a 101st Airborne restaurant which was modeled after a bombed out French château. The aircraft watched over the château and the visiting veterans that she once flew into battle. Tooie was very lucky to have been set down in this location because it was protected from nearly all corrosion being atop a small hill which was subjected to a constant light breeze.

It was an out-of-state IASAR member who was the last person to fly Tooie and set the aircraft at its static display overlooking the restaurant back in the 70s.