Li-2. Denmark Royal Danish Air Force Ethiopia Ethiopian Air Force Finland The Finnish Air Force operated nine from 1960 to 1984. One was involved in the Finnish Air Force's deadliest crash on 3 October 1978, when the aircraft crashed soon after takeoff, killing all 15 aboard. France The French Air Force operated Skytrains from September 1944 on, when Lend-Lease C-47Bs were delivered to the Groupe de Transport 1/15. After the war, they were the only transport aircraft in large numbers with the Junkers 52 until the late 1950s. The French Navy used an example in the First Indochina War as a transport aircraft. After some were used as training aircraft by the squadron 56S. Germany 20 used by the post-war West German Luftwaffe Greece The Hellenic Air Force's received a total of 78 aircraft, in several batches, with 26 ex-RAF Dakota IVs received from 1947 to 1949, 16 ex-USAAF C-47s in 1947–48, 30 C-47s supplied from the US under the Mutual Assistance Program and six aircraft from Olympic Airways in 1963. They equipped the 355th and 356th Transport Squadrons. These were widely used in the Greek Civil War (1946–49) in transport and bombing roles. The 13th Transport Flight used C-47s in the Korean War, earning a U.S. Presidential Citation. The 356th sSquadron converted to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in 1975, but 26 C-47s remained operational with 355 Squadron at the beginning of the 1980s, with aircraft gradually being phased out over time, with four aircraft remaining operational in 2000 and the last aircraft, a veteran of the Korean War, grounded in 2008. Haiti Haiti Air Corps Honduras Hungary Hungarian Air Force operated Soviet-built Li-2s. India Indian Air Force Indonesia Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) C-47 Dakota RI-001 Seulawah was bought by the Acehnese in 1948 and flown between Java and Sumatra. After the war of independence in 1949 some C-47s were transferred from the Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force and later ex-RAAF C-47s were received as foreign aid. During the Indonesian invasion of East Timor two C-47s were converted to Gunships with three AN/M3 Browning machine guns. Iran Imperial Iranian Air Force The IIAF acquired 22 Douglas C-47 Skytrains in 1949. Israel Israeli Air Force Italy Italian Air Force Operated 19 C-47s and 8 C-53 as staff transports and ECM aircraft into the mid-1980s. Japan On February 24, 1938, a subsidiary of Nakajima (Mitsui)