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Originally Posted by sniperton
It's not unrealistic for the late war. But hostilities in Europe started in 1939. Are you sure that the situation was the same in the first 3 years?
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For the USSR, the Li-2 was the main transport type and the Soviets had a license to build it since before WW2.
Likewise, Japan had a license to build DC-3s before the war, and it was also the main purpose-built transport (although later the G3M was converted to being a transport).
Pre-WW2, the UK had a number of different civil transports built by British manufacturers, as well as a number of converted or unsuccessful bomber types used by the RAF. In the latter group, the Armstrong-Whitworth Albemarle was probably the most common and successful. If I had to choose one British-made transport plane as being representative, that would be it - especially since a few were used by the Soviets.
For the Italians, hands-down it would have to be the SM.82 as the choice for an Italian-built transport plane. This was an excellent plane which was also used by the Luftwaffe in significant numbers from 1943 on. It could also stand in for the Ju-252.