The Marines first learned how to operate large Waco gliders that could carry about a dozen people or a Jeep. Before they came to Eagle Mountain, pilots went to flight school in Chicago at the ...

Images of the glider in flight (here, a CG-4 prototype) don’t capture the human drama of a CG-4 mission, as the museum’s finished display does. NASM Neg. #2002-3809 WANTED: Waco CG-4 Troop ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, famous for it being the first town liberated by US Forces on D-DAY, 6th ...

Linsmayer knows of only a handful of original gliders still in existence. Once they had completed a mission, he says, local residents used them for firewood or building material (see “A Waco’s ...