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Immagini - Volo a vela - Alianti - Storia del volo

This excellent photo was taken by a glider pilot just as his tow-plane starting across the North Sea to Holland. Note the telephone cable wrapped around the tow-line for communication between pilots. The slack in the non-stretchable telephone cables allowed for the expansion of the tow-line during flight. Hance A. Lunday

September 17, 1944, LZ S. Lt. Col W.F.K. Thompson (left) of the Royal Artillery helps unload equipment from the Horsa in which he and his troops have just landed four miles west of Arnhem. Imperial War Museum

September 17, 1944. Four Horsa gliders have just landed on LZZ, four and one half miles east of Arnhem. Large white and black invasion stripes were painted on to identify these unfamiliar aircraft to Allied sea and ground gunners. Imperial War Museum

September 17, 1944, Eindhoven, Holland. American glider troops assemble after having just arrived from England. The motorcycle was captured from the Germans. In its sidecar rides the German soldier who had been driving the motorcycle when the American landed. Joseph Mendes

LZ W, September 17, 1944. A group of young Dutch boys wearing wooden shoes marvel at the small bulldozer that has just been unloaded from this glider. These minidozers were especially developed for the American airborne divisions. Markings on this dozer show that it is the property of the 101st Airborne's 326th Engineer Battalion. Hance A. Lunday

LZ W, Holland, September 18, 1944. Troopers of the 101st Airborne using axes and other implements to rescue a badly injured glider pilot (seen at bottom centre of photo) pinned in wreckage of this CG-4°. U.S. Army