The Yacht Club participated in the largest airborne assaults in the European Theater of Operations, such as the invasion of Sicily, the invasion of Normandy, Operation Market Garden, and Battle of the Bulge.

In March 1945, The Yacht Club also participated in the final major airborne operation in Europe during WWII, Operation Varsity, the crossing of the Rhine in Germany.

With its military service having ended, it was acquired by Trans World Airlines and became a DC-3A.

 The work to convert the war-weary transport to a peacetime civilian airliner was carried out by the Timm Aircraft Corporation of Van Nuys, CA, a company that was founded by Otto Timm, who took Charles Lindbergh on his first flight in 1922.

From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, NC86558 flew for TWA, Northeast Airlines, and United

During the three-year restoration, Thun and Merritt were removing the old insulation from the fuselage when they found the names of about 20 soldiers who had flown in the former C-53, written in pencil on the interior skin.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/douglas-c-53d-42-68738-the-yacht-club.html