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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

But, if I understand correctly, the main modifications to Lend-Lease aircraft were to guns and ordinance, which don't apply in the case of the C-47/Dakota.

I am not sure about British, but C-47, supplied to the USSR were not modified in any way and were used as cargo aircraft.

USSR, however, manufactured it's own versions of the plane: PS-84, which was license-built version of DC-3 and Li-2, which was altered to have internal bomb bays, bombardier equipment, MG turret and forward firing fixed MG. The later was produced both fitted with military equipment, and without it, but with possibility to be retrofitted with it.