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Paris Island, South Carolina, May 1941. U.S. Marine Corps student glider pilots preparing for a training flight in their Schweizer 2-place sailplane, The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps designated this glider the LNS-1. In the U.S. Army it was known as a TG-2. U.S. Marine Corps

The U.S. Navy's 2-place (side-by-sideseating) Pratt-Read LNE-1 training glider. Pratt-read built 100 of these sleek sailplanes during World-War II. Seventy-three or them were transferred to the U.S. Army where they were redesignated as TG-32 training gliders. Vintage Sailplane Association

February 1942, Wright Field, Ohio. Sodiers from Fort Benning's 29th infantry debark from a CG-3A, the first large troop-carryng glider devoleped by the United States. This method of debarkation undoubtedly was very hard on the ankles or the passengers. Only 100 CG-3As had been built when the U.S. Army adopted the larger CG-4A glider which had side exit doors for passengers and pilots. U.S. Army

Major Frederick R. Dent. Jr., the first chief of glider development and procurement for the U.S. Army Air Force, in front cockpit of Schweizer TG-2 training glider. U.S. Air Force

CG-4A gliders under construction. The fragile CG-4A glider had no protective armour as did all other combat aircraft, n machine guns for self-defence, and only a thin outer skin made on canvas, Yet they were used in great numbers in nearly every major Allied Invasion during World War II. U.S. Air Force

Faced with a critical shortage of training gliders in 1942, the U.S. Government converted hundreds of 2-place powered airplanes in to 3-place gliders by replacing the engine with another pilot's seat and controls. Shown here is (top) the Aeronica Defender after its conversion into the TG-5 glider; (centre) a Taylorcraft Tandum Trainer that has been converted into the TG-6; and (bottom) a Piper Cub modified into a TG-8 glider. Aeronica Aircraft Corp.

A GC-4° glider coming in for a test landing with a 10-foot nylon drag parachute serving as a giant air brake. Parachutes enabled gliders to land more quickly on small fields. They were used extensively during landings in Europe. This test glider is also equipped with a Griswold Nose. U.S. Air Force

June 28, 1942, Washington D.C. The German-born film star, Marlene Dietrich, smiles at Sergeant William T. Sampson II from the cockpit of a glider. A few hours after this picture was taken, Sampson was presented the first pair of glider pilot wings ever to be awarded to U.S. Army glider pilot. William T. Sampson