For the bottom most photo:
1. "Radio Panel Lights" = box photo in upper right.
2. ILS Control = horizontal facing box at top right of main photo:
A) Switch - "On, Off",
B) L Rheostat - ??
C) R Rheostat -
"V Y W Z Y Z
Localizer
??"
4. White "bar" left of Compass Light Rheostat = Detent for some sort of switch, probably labeled "Bail Out" (see Spud's picture for details).
5. ON Compass Lights OFF?
6. Prop. Feather Left
7. ON Panel Lights ON
8. Prop Deicer - On/Off
Main Left Panel
9. White "bar left of jump light = Detent for switch "Para Pack Salvo"
10. Caution/Off/Jump = Lights used to signal paratroops/load master
11. Battery Master - On/Off
12. Passing Light - on/off
Switch Off While Using Battery Cart
13. Landing Light Left - on/off
14. Landing Light Right - on/off
15. [Lights] Position Wing - Bright/Off/Dim
16. Lights [Position] Tail - Bright/Off/Dim
17. Pitot [Heater] Forward - on/off
18. [Pitot] Heater Aft - on/off
19. Oil Dilution - Engage? Primer? - Left/Right
Right Panel/Bottom-most picture
1. Cockpit Lights - ON/Off
2. Inverter - On/Off
3. Carb. Deicer - On/Off/Nom?
4. Prop. Feather Right
5. Formation Lights - Off/On
6. Engergize - Left/Off/Right/Starter
7. LH Booster - On/Off/?
8. RH booster - On/Off/:
9. Keying Switch
10. Recognition Lights
A) Key/Off/Steady Red
B) Key/Off/Steady Green
C) Key/Off/Steady Amber
Maximum Ground Operating Time 10 Sec
11. Amps - 0, 10, 40?, 80? - Left [Note: Gauges are slightly different but easier to read in Spud's picture]
12. Ampheres - 0, 10, 40, ? - Right [Ditto]
Can't read words near detent switch just above Recognition lights.
Placard at top of L & R panels: "Feathering Motor Circuit Not Fused. If No Feathering Action Within Ninety Seconds Open Switch By Pulling"
Placard to L of L panel: "Electrical Operation After Hand Crank"???
On Spud's picture, the center-mountd round gauge is the Ignition Switches:
Good picture here:
http://www.maam.org/airshow/images/r4d_cockpit_21.jpg
L On<-->Off R
Off, L, R, Both, R, L, Off
A.C. Type
B-5
For yet another variant! Here's a good site for the R4D-6, basically, the Navy version of the C-47
http://www.maam.org/airshow/r4d_panels.htm