Ford was one of sixteen companies making what some have called America’s first stealth military aircraft, the Waco CG-4A ...

With the German invasion of France that began in May 1940, the full might of the combined arms of the German military and its tank-centric Blitzkrieg strategy hit numerous Allied countries.

Two were the main types of gliders used in the action. The first was the Waco CG-4A, a U.S designed and built assault glider which had first taken to the air during 1942 and became the most ...

“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 ...

The United States government became the prime contractor of Waco Aircraft Company’s troop/cargo gliders (CG-4A) used extensively during World War II. The company also managed the U.S. Army’s ...

Those machines also saw action June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. The WACO CG-4A glider delivered cargo carrying the tools of war, but some parts of the plane were made at Gibson Guitar, one of the ...

In the back of the warehouse, between pallets of materials and the rollers where finished products exit, is a frame of a different sort: the shell of a World War II CG-4A ... gliders designed by ...

Gliders participated in some of the biggest campaigns, including D-Day and the invasions of the Netherlands and the Philippines. The centerpiece of the museum is a rare Waco CG-4A glider.

He and twelve other soldiers loaded their gear and jeep with trailer on a CG-4A Waco glider bound for Holland. As the formation encountered flak over the coast, Click remembered this mission as ...

The P-47 squad served as fighting artillery on June 6, 1944. The C-47 Skytrain was a troop carrier and glider tug. The WACO CG-4A delivered troops and equipment on D-Day. Many planes failed to ...