46 items in this album on 3 pages.
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CG-4A glider deploying drag chute in flight, post Aug 1943 | Glider pilot Charlie Rex (on right) and the Glider Engineering section of the US 315th Troop Carrier Group posing in front of CG-4A glider 'Hiya Honey', post Aug 1943 |
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View from cockpit of a CG-4A glider as it was towed by a C-47 Skytrain aircraft, 1944 | Waco CG-4 with US 101st Airborne men; note BAR, M1 Garand, Thompson M1A1, M1A1 Bazooka, Springfield 1903; possibly a training jump due to peeling PFC stripes; circa early 1944 |
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CG-4A and Horsa gliders at an English airfield preparing for the Normandy invasion, May 1944; note the application of invasion stripes still in-progress | CG-4A glider making a training landing at Beuzeville Airfield, Sainte-Mère-Église, France, Jun 1944; note invasion stripes. |
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RAF C-47 Dakota aircraft towing Waco Hadrian gliders, 6 Jun 1944; note invasion stripes on all aircraft | USAAF Transport Command C-47 Skytrain aircraft towing Waco CG-4A gliders, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944. |
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CG-4A and Horsa gliders littering Normandy fields amongst the hedgerows, France, Jun 1944 | Ford-built CG-4A glider sitting in a pasture, Normandy, France, Jun 1944 |
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C-47 Skytrain aircraft recovering a CG-4A glider, Normandy, France, 23 Jun 1944; note hooked tow line from C-47 getting ready to hook onto a net connected to glider | 82nd Airborne Division loading Jeeps into Waco CG-4A gliders about Sep 14, 1944 for Market Garden on Sep 17. The box in the left Jeep is a SCR-625-C mine detector and a paratrooper bicycle is in the right Jeep |
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C-47 Dakota aircraft taking off, towing a CG-4A glider, Britain, 17 Sep 1944 | C-47 Skytrains towing Waco CG-4 gliders over Bergeijk, Holland en route the Operation Market Garden landings near Eindhoven, 17 Sep 1944. |
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C-47 Skytrains tow CG-4A Gliders to their landing areas on D+1 of Operation Market Garden, Sep 18 1944 | US Army Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe speaking to his glider pilots, England, United Kingdom, 18 Sep 1944; note C-47 Skytrain and CG-4A glider aircraft in background |
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C-47 Skytrain aircraft of US 315th Troop Carrier Group dropping 41 sticks of 1st Polish Airborne Brigade into Grave, the Netherlands, 23 Sep 1944; note CG-4A gliders already on the ground. Photo 1 of 2. | C-47 Skytrain aircraft of US 315th Troop Carrier Group dropping 41 sticks of 1st Polish Airborne Brigade into Grave, the Netherlands, 23 Sep 1944; note CG-4A gliders already on the ground. Photo 2 of 2. |
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C-47 Skytrain with hook lowered preparing to snatch CG-4 glider as the Control Team stands by in a GPW/MB Jeep, date unknown | CG-4A gliders and C-47 Skytrain tow planes lined up on a French airfield in preparation for Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945. |
46 items in this album on 3 pages.