Any ideas from this WW2 wreck

[kemblejet01]

Can anyone identify this aircraft - I'm stumped!
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1042/screenshot_2021_01_23_at_18_52_30_852cddc87328b75bffd764799a 2535feeba9d095.png

[Bergerie1]

Lisunov Li-2 ?

[treadigraph]

Looks like there is a serial KG370 on the base of the fin that would make it a Dakota - which is certainly what it looks like.

Edit: here's the crash report with the pic...

https://aviation-safety.net/photo/7661/Douglas-Dakota-III-KG370

[kemblejet01]

You Sir, are a genius.

[Fareastdriver]

Judging by the bent frames in the rudder it had been knocked about a bit.

[DaveReidUK]

A salutary reminder that in WW2 it wasn't just fighter and bomber aircrew who paid with their lives.

[esa-aardvark]

When I moved to Holland (1974!) I had a book of aerial photo's.
At least some showed outlines of aircraft which could still be detected
years later. I suppose they burned and changed the soil characteristics.
Must have been in the Arnhem area. Book lost unfortunately.

[Shackman]

Surprised no-one has entered the link for the more comprehensive Aviation Safety link - https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19440923-9

Although I thought I knew a lot about the op Market Garden (Arnhem etc) I knew very little about the losses suffered by the transport aircraft involved. A link on the above ASN takes you to http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Aircraft-lost-on-Allied-Forces-Special-Duty-Operations.pdf
- look at the losses for September 1944 - they make for sombre reading.

[treadigraph]

Sorry, didn't realise I'd linked the pic and not the report!

[Old-Duffer]

KG370 of 48 Sqn was flown by P/O Walton Ralph PRING 26 crashed at Roasnpolder on 23 Sep 44. Three crew and two despatchers killed. The Nav and two dispatchers made POW and the other two evaded.

Old Duffer

[Self loading bear]

Rosande polder are the flood plains of the Rhine just south of Oosterbeek.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1114x595/08d8aae1_56f2_4a98_b141_fa091be380e1_ef605a3b7963598856764ba 3b64450733654ef6d.jpeg