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U.S. transport aircraft and gliders carry British Chindit troops behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II.
American Army Air Forces transport British forces for operation behind Japanese lines in Burma during World War II. American C-47 planes parked on airfield. British soldiers board the aircraft. Planes in flight. British soldiers seated inside a plane. American soldiers (wearing steel helmets) inside a C-47 transport. C-47s towing gliders. View of British Chindit soldiers inside a glider. The planes being flown over Burmese jungle. Gliders parked at a landing field. U.S. C-47 aircraft landing at the field. American troops exit one C-47 and immediately proceed to assemble a Browning 50 caliber antiaircraft machine gun. A Stinson L-5 liaison aircraft lands on the field.
C-47 aircraft snag tow lines and pull U.S. Army Air Corps gliders off the ground into the air, in the United States
A C-47aircraft in flight in the United States. The C-47with a dangling cable and a hook trailing behind it flies low over a field. It snags a cable supported between standards. The cable is attached to an Army glider, sitting on the field, which the C-47 proceeds to pull off the ground and into the air. The C-47 continues in flight, towing the U.S. Army Air Corps glider.The action is repeated again by another aircraft and glider.
U.S. gliders coast overhead in search of landing spots on a field in Holland.
U.S. aircraft in flight over Holland during World War II. A glider in flight over a field. The glider descends. Some soldiers standing nearby. Several gliders coast overhead in search of landing spots. Paratroopers walking on the field. (During Operation Market Garden.)
German workers raise a Go-242 transport glider using a hydraulic jack in Germany (WW2)
World War II German film (“Arbeitskopie” or “working copy”) showing men lifting a Gotha Go-242 transport glider using a hydraulic jack. The port side of German Go-242 glider front fuselage. Two civilian workers place a large hydraulic jack under the nose of the Go-242 aircraft. They raise the Go-242’s nose section about 5 feet off the ground. Two other civilians place a two-wheel under-carriage under the middle part of aircraft fuselage. View of worker's hands as he attaches wheels to fuselage frame. German soldiers push two side-car motorcycles into rear of aircraft with open half of fuselage. Fuselage drops down and closes as seen from the rear half of aircraft. Interior close ups of the position of two motorcycles with soldiers (possibly paratroopers) sitting in seats. A tractor towing the Go-242 glider on airfield.
U.S. PT boats running in British waters. DC-3 aircraft towing Horsa Gliders.
United States Navy Patrol torpedo boats underway in British waters before the invasion of France during World War II. Bow of a United States PT boat as it patrols along with others. Men on the deck of the boat. A 50 caliber machine gunner. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft towing Horsa gliders at medium altitudes overhead, while C-47s without gliders fly in the opposite direction at very low altitudes over the water.
U.S. gliders taxi and take off one after the other from a British base during World War II.
Preparations for D-Day Invasion of France during World War II. Four days before D-Day, U.S. gliders at a British base taxi and take off one after the other, towed by Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft. Insignia of the United States. A hangar in the background. The gliders in flight. They fly over an airfield in formation.
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