The cabin interior of this C-47 has been equipped for a medical evacuation flight. During WW II and the Korean War, C-47s sometimes served dual purposes on the same mission. Supplies might be flown to a combat area and as soon as the aircraft was unloaded, litters might be installed to carry sick and wounded personnel on the return flight. The impracticality of changing aircraft markings before such medical flights meant the aircraft bore no identification as a hospital ship so the crew and patients on board had no greater degree of safety from enemy attack than if the aircraft was hauling combat supplies.

June 15, 1945. This soldier was wounded fighting in the hill positions of Negros, Philippine Islands. An ambulance of the 37th Field Hospital brought him to the waiting Douglas C-47 "Skytrain," 65th Troop Carrier Squadron, for evacuation to a Leyte General Hospital.