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(Right) 34th TCS Glider Engineering
Officer and glider pilot Charlie Rex (on the right) and the Glider
Engineering section in front of a CG-4A |
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As it exited after landing, the
jeep pulled on the line which pulled the lever apparatus seen overhead the
cockpit. In practical operations,
however, the
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(Left) Identification card of Flight Officer
Alfred Mallett, glider pilot of the 309th TCS. Submitted by FO Mallett’s son. (Below) Wreckage of FO Mallett’s glider after crash-landing during Operation Market Garden. The aircraft took hits from Flak and caught fire. FO Mallett was barely able to land the glider before the entire skin burned away. Note the jeep he was carrying still inside. Photo taken from official US Army project to photo-document as many crash sites as possible. |
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(Left) Glider troops boarding a CG-4A
glider. Glider unit and troop unit
not identified. |
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(Right)
Troops seated inside a CG-4A |
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(Left) A
c-47 of the 91st TCS of the 439th TCG (note the L4 on the
nose) ‘snatching’ CG-4A glider from the ground. The glider’s tow line was suspended from two poles flanking the
glider. The C-47 mounted with a hook
beneath, flew slightly above and between the poles and grabbed the tow
line. A dynamic braking drum inside
the C-47 allowed the glider to accelerate smoothly, though quickly, to
takeoff speed. |
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(Left) Cockpit of
the CG-4, |
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(Right) 310th’s C-47 ‘Umptey-pooh’, uniquely marked
with ‘Tiger Jaws’, as seen from a CG-4A Waco glider in tow during a glider
training mission. Barely visible (in
the original photo) is the tow line extending behind ‘Umptey-pooh’. C-47s could tow two |
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(Left) View from the cockpit of a CG-4A |
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(Above) A serial of
C-47s of the 315th TCG
dropping 41 sticks of the 1st
Polish Airborne Brigade into |
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(Left) As the
caption states, gliders on the ground at |
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(Right) Aerial view of glider landing, mostly
Horsas. Landing zone and date not
identified. |
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(Left) The caption at the top of the photo
reads “In September 1944, Ductch villagers and a pliceman watch gliders
carrying units of the 82nd Airborne Division toward a target
behind the German lines.” The unit of
C-47s towing the gliders is not identified, and probably not the 315th
TCG as they never towed gliders in a combat operation. |
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(Above) Walter
'Pappy' Winans and Pat McMarrow standing next to British Horsa. Note invasion stripes which were painted
on Allied aircraft for |
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(Above) A British Horsa glider after landing. Troops in foreground not identified. |
Among the companies who built
Hora gliders was the Harris Lebus company , founded by Lewis Lebus, a
Breslau-born Jew who came to |
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(Right)
Inside a British Horsa glider, looking forward. Note the bottom of the flight deck
(cockpit) appearing just above the heads of the last glider troops. Photo was taken for training purposes. |
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(Below left) The
operations manual ‘Pilot Notes’ for the British Horsa glider. (Below right) A page from the Pilot’s Notes handbook depicted the instrument
panel and controls of the Horsa. |
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