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.

“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 ...

Production expanded in 1943 as hundreds of workers in three shifts built 956 Waco CG-4A gliders. Pratt, Read and Co. was one of 16 contractors nationwide that manufactured the fabric-covered wood ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 24, 1945, a young man from Stoneham named Peter Paicos climbed into the cockpit of his Waco CG-4A Combat Glider and prepared for takeoff from an airfield in France. He was a glider pilot ...

A CG 4A Waco glider sits atop the Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum at Fort Campbell. Now a World War II relic, the glider was used to transport soldiers and cargo to military on the ground fighting in ...

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.

From there, Smith spent years training to become a glider pilot, traveling to bases across the country including Fort Morgan, learning to fly a Waco CG-4A glider. Eventually, after being promoted ...

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