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. Boys are seen with boats on a lake. They pay out a line fastened to a glider designed to look like a German Lufthansa flying boat. A boy tows the glider out to the center of the lake using a rowboat. Person in the glider cockpit closes its hatch. On shore, the tow line is seen being rolled up rapidly on a wheel driven by a motor, causing the towed flying boat glider to gather speed across the lake, until it breaks from the water and soars into the air. The glider seen in flight, and then making a graceful landing on the lake.
A glider takes off. Woman contestant sits in the glider. Man and a woman contestants sit in a two seat glider. A glider becomes airborne as it is towed by a car. Spectators observe glider meet.
Rocket glider pilot drops from hot air balloon in Aurora, Illinois. Pilot William G. Swan with a rocket propelled glider and balloon in a field. People gather to watch the flight. The balloon ascends, carrying the pilot and his glider aloft. At a considerable height, the pilot lights rockets on the glider, releases from the balloon, and glides back to earth. The remnants of the balloon narrowly miss the glider as it lands. Pilot Bill Swan is interviewed after successful flight.
Planes and gliders on an airfield in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. A Waco CG-4 glider in airfield. Cable on glider as it starts for take-off. Glider lands on a field. A C-46 aircraft flies low over the field, picks up a glider and tows it away.
Gliders in flight at a contest at the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany. Civilians milling about in aviators camp. A large number of people stand in front of an aircraft. A biplane glider in flight. A pilot gets into the cockpit of a bird like glider. A pilot checks out the controls of a biplane glider. Four men assist a biplane glider to take off. A group of men pull a monoplane during take off and the plane goes over on nose before take off.
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