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Douglas C-54 Skymaster (50-8857) - US Navy C54 at Flinders Island after flying in a new engine for stranded DC3, circa 1964
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster (50-8857)

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US Navy C54 at Flinders Island after flying in a new engine for stranded DC3, circa 1964

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CHRIS ROBEY
Now it all makes a lot of sense...great shots! I landed at YFLI with my Dad in a Piper PA23 Aztec, just five years after this, in 1967. I was eleven years old. We overnighted, but no one on the island mentioned this USN rescue mission to us!
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