Chicago
& Southern Air Lines Douglas DC-3-322
NC25626 (c/n 2219)

Framed by two1940s vintage
trucks is this Chicago & Southern pre-war DC-3 at Shreveport
Municipal Airport in 1942. C & S took
delivery of six DC-3s in 1940, and started phasing out
their Electras.
The Shreveport stop was introduced when the new schedule from Memphis
to
Houston.was inaugurated in 1941. During
WW II C & S, like most other carriers gave up part
of its fleet for military
duties, whilst at the same time performing valuable war work in the
training of
pilots, radio operators and
mechanics.