On June 13, 1952 a Swedish Air Force C-47, the military version of the famous DC-3, disappeared while on a secret mission over the Baltic Sea. After an interrupted code-signal from the plane at 11:25 Swedish time, the plane and its crew of eight men were never heard from again. The disappearance of this plane, much later known as the “DC 3 Affair,” is still a sensitive chapter in Sweden’s Cold War history. In spite of evidence from intensive research in the archives of a number of nations, some facts in the DC 3 Affair are still classified or unknown. Thus the destiny of these men remained unresolved for more than fifty years.
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