Fleet of motor-less glider aircraft in flight at Elmira in New York. Frank Hawks starts the show. The glider pilots gathered around a glider on ground. Glider catapults from a mountain to begin its flight. Formation of five gliders soaring in flight. Various gliders catapult. Gliders land on ground. Jack O'Meara with his Baker McMillen Cadet II.
Glider towed off for take off in an Air Show at Tokyo International Airport. View of glider in free flight as it climbs. Glider lands on the runway. Japanese glider takes off. Japanese glider in a free flight. Glider is placed in position for take off. Group of spectators rush as the glider lands.
Capture of Myitkyina airfield by Allied Forces during Burma Campaign of World War II. Animated map highlights Myitkyina airfield in North Burma which is captured by Allied ground forces on 17th of May, 1944. USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) Waco CG-4 gliders parked at Shingbwiyang airfield. USAAF officer inspects a map. Airbase engineering equipment are loaded aboard gliders. Tow rope of glider is hooked up with USAAF C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Airborne engineers board the glider. C-47 tows CG-4. CG-4 makes a landing at Myitkyina airfield under Japanese machine gun fire. Another glider makes a crash landing. Airborne engineers exit the gliders on field. A pilot and an engineer of crashed glider are given plasma and first aid. Wounded men are evacuated. Bulldozers level the airfield. Chinese soldiers search for hidden Japanese snipers in area.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division invades Holland, Netherlands during World War 2 Operation Market Garden. United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains and gliders in flight overhead. Aerial view of flooded lands in Holland. The gliders come in for a landing on a field. A glider tips forward hard and crashes while landing. U.S. Army soldiers and medics work to free men from the wreckage. A soldier chops a part of the glider to rescue a soldier trapped underneath. An injured man crawls out as the rescuers lift up a nose section of glider with name "Jessie" written on front. A jeep is unloaded from a glider.
Hitler Youth in Germany during World War 2. They hook up a glider and tow it up a tall hill, where they help one of their members take his place at the glider controls. Then they release the glider and push it down the steep hill where it takes off. They watch the glider in flight over the hills. The glider flies over tents at the Hitler youth camp. The pilot lands the glider nearby.
Bi-wing Espenlaub, hang glider comes down a slope. Group of men tow Granau Glider into air from top of hill. Group of men gather around a crashed glider. Glider Zoegling and bi wing plane in flight. Glider catapults from top of sand dunes at Rosiden. The bi-wing glider goes down hill. Man in cockpit of Groenhoff sailplane. Pile of junk airplanes and wings.
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