Aerial view of an airfield in Dreux, France during World War II. Gliders parked on a field. A mass formation of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrains with double glider tow in flight..
Allied Invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. United States Army Air Forces Waco CG-4 military glider lands on an airfield. Pilots at control of CG-4 glider. Soldiers advance and fire rifles on streets. They drag a wounded soldier around the corner of a building.
A film depicts the Battle of the Bulge in the area of Bastogne, Belgium by U.S. troops during World War II. Belgian civilians are evacuated from an area. Civilians and soldiers in an area. Guns on a field. U.S. aircraft flying in formation to deliver supplies, ammunition, and food to U.S. Army forces including 101st Airborne Infantry soldiers fighting in the battle of the Bulge. Soldiers watching the airplanes through binoculars. Point of view shot from inside a glider hooked via a tow rope to an aircraft in flight, preparing to cut loose for glide to the ground. Aerial view of the target area. The airplanes in flight overhead. Supplies are being dropped via parachutes. View inside supply aircraft as troops push supplies out of doors. Gliders loaded with supplies and equipment landing in a snow covered area in time for Christmas 1944. Combat in the snow with a night artillery barrage by American soldiers firing at the Germans. U.S. soldiers using flame throwers at night directed at Germans. Dead bodies of German soldiers lying on the snow covered battlefield the next day. German prisoners of war standing under the guard of the U.S. soldiers, some of German prisoners found wearing civilian clothing or wearing pieces of U.S. uniforms. The 101st Airborne Infantry soldiers march in a victory celebration in town. A board reads: "Bastogne Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st."
Robert Kronfeld Austria's glider pilot crosses the English Channel in round trip glide. He is congratulated at by the people at St. Inglevert airfield near Calais, France, after winning the Annual Glider Meet. He handled a motor less aircraft from France to England and back again the same day. A French aircraft crashes while landing during the competition. 20 June 1931.
C-47s tow gliders for take off in Saint Mere Eglise, France. They fly over an airbase. Other gliders take off and fly. (World War II period)
C-47s gliders take off in Saint Mere Eglise, France. They fly over the ground. Trees on the ground. A glider on the ground takes off. (World War II period)
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