RAF glider, a Waco CG-4A, being towed by small tracked vehicle (M29 Weasel) and crew. Crew parks M29 and enters glider. Aerial view of farmland from the air.
Slate reads “Geheime Kommandosache” (“secret commando operation” in English). Junkers Ju-52 transport plane tows a large German glider. Both the Junkers Ju-52 and the glider aircraft taking off .
German soldiers loading Howitzers into a parked Gotha Go-242 transport glider on ground covered with snow. The rear of the fuselage is raised. Soldiers pushing in a World War II 105mm type German Howitzer. Two soldiers inside aircraft use hand pulley to pull in the Howitzer. The soldiers load more Howitzers into the aircraft. Interior shots of Go-242 glider as soldier fastens the just close rear part of fuselage. Soldiers continue to fasten and secure the Howitzer to aircraft deck using cloth straps. Go-242 towed by a small truck from right to left. The aircraft goes past ground camera and then right to left again over snow-cleared runway.
United States soldiers find a wrecked gun on the side of a road in Saint Mere Eglise, Normandy after the D-Day landings in World War II. Another soldier finds the body of a dead German soldier. Dead German soldier found on a roadside. Wreckage of glider Soldiers push part of the fuselage of the wrecked glider.
U.S Army in Operation Market Garden. Two men in glider cockpit during flight over Holland during World War II. Waco CG-4A gliders in flight in poor visibility.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF airmen at the Binh Thuy Air Base near the city of Can Tho in Vietnam. A sign board on a gate reads 'Huan Luyen'. Vietnamese airmen lined up inside the compound. They march and salute. Officers guide them and supervise. An aircraft taxis past U.S. and Vietnamese Air Force airplanes and helicopters parked on a runway. A Vietnamese aircraft with the Vietnamese Air Force roundel on the plane. Several USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas parked on the runway. USAF gliders parked with a guard nearby. A military jeep nearby and a sandbag barricade on the runway. Air Policemen (APs) in a military jeep. 'Air Police' written on the wind shield. An AP mans a machine gun in the back seat. The jeep crosses more jeeps and personnel. Airmen cross a medical van parked outside a dispensary. The dispensary sign outside. (Vietnam War period).
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