“High Flight” is designed as a stainless steel, 10-foot tall abstract sculpture of a WACO CG-4A glider, the most widely used U.S. troop/cargo glider of World War II, according to the National ...

One of those rare aircraft is the Waco CG-4 troop glider. Early in World War II, the Germans had had success using gliders to land troops in combat zones, so the U.S. Army decided to develop a ...

They each flew one combat mission in a quiet, hulking glider, in the European theater of World War II. But memories the two aging veterans brought to New Orleans this week differ sharply.

The Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock remembers the men who flew plywood gliders into the teeth of the German war machine during World War II. The pilots ... museum is a rare Waco CG-4A glider.

That’s how Scott McGaugh chooses his book subjects. The people in his new book, due out Tuesday, were glider pilots during World War II. They climbed into planes so new they hadn’t been ...

The Waco CG-4A was not a small aircraft ... to fund the glider’s restoration and the construction of the World War II Glider ...

During World War II, thousands of U.S. and British troops were towed into the skies in steel-framed gliders and released in the direction of opposing armies. The engine-less craft swooped in ...

Deanie Bishop Parrish, a Waco resident born in Florida who earned her wings flying missions during World War II, died Thursday, one day before family and friends were to celebrate her 100th birthday.

When 20-year old Jackson County native Fletcher Williams was drafted Nov. 18, 1942, for service in World War II, he became a participant ... assigned to the 325th Glider Infantry of the U.S ...

The Waco CG-4A was used during World War 2 to stealthily land special operations ... by the number of available planes. The lightweight glider was towed to altitude by a C-47 or similar aircraft ...