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Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea, October 1944. Two of the four CG-4As that will take part in the hazardous mission to Hidden Valley are being lined up behind their tugs. Earl F. Simson

April 1945. Lt. Leo Cordier of the 78th Squadron, 485th Troop Carrier Group, and his CG-4A "Connecticut Yankee" glider at Hildersheim, Germany. Cordier had landed as part of a two-glider sortie to establish an air traffic control centre to direct powered airplanes which were to land with supplies for General Patton's Third Army and then evacuate Allied POWs. The No. 5, and the five swastikas, painted on the glider denote Cordier's fifth combat mission. Only a handful of glider pilot lived long enough during World War II to complete five mission. Cordier's previous missions were to Normandy, southern France, Holland, and the Rhine River crossing. Lt. Col. Leo Cordier

A CG-15° landing during Operation Tarheel, training manoeuvres held near Ft. Bragg, N.C., in 1949. The CG-15° was similar in appearance to a CG-15° glider, but its wingspan was 21' 4" shorter, and it could carry 1.000 pounds more. Arthur Provost

The most unusual experiments carried out with glider in World War II involved the conversion of some of them into powered airplanes. This former CG-4A, equipped with two 125 hp Franklin engines, has been transformed into an XPG-1 No powered gliders were ever used in combat. U.S. Air Force

This XCG-17 was a unique experiment in glider development. A standard C-47 powered airplane was converted by removal its engines. It was towed by a single B-17 bomber, or by two C-47 in tandem. Only one XCG-17 was produced during the War. U.S. Air Force

June 23, 1945, near Appari, Luzon. This rare photo shows six of the seven gliders utilized by Gypsy Task Force during their landings on Camalaniugan Airstrip. Parachutes of earlier landed paratroopers can be seen littering the foreground. U.S. Air Force