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Our new air museum website!

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Trivia time: what aircraft are these troops checking out -

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And what is the meaning of the wing stripes?
 
Tow-line glider, D-Day stripes.
 
Looks like that one got down in one piece. (y)
 
Gliderman8 said:
You beat me to it.
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Sheer happenstance!

Tom, you have a Warthog?!? Neat!

That gun on the nose is something a friend and I have passing acquaintance with (Elliot met the same friend this past January). He and I were sent TDY in spring of 1972 to Burlington VT. to photograph the GAU-8/A for its first multiple-round live fire test... won't go through the entire experience, there was a "slight mishap" with the half-second burst. But after it was ended we were given "tokens" for attending, in the form of "refrigerator magnets". We both still have 'em, mine is somewhat worse for wear, having lived on my toolbox for decades. The surround used to be gold, background a dark brown (the original color of the parent material).

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It's a Waco CG-4A, CG stands for combat glider. They were also used more often than, I belive, is widely known. They were used at Sicily, Operation Dragoon in Southern France, at the Rhine, and I kinda want to say at least one or two places in the Pacific.
 
Thanks Walt. We have an good WW2 combat glider exhibit, called "Silent Wings. And technically, the "stripes" aren't D-Day stripes, they're Invasion stripes. Interesting side story:

The stripes were fallout from Operation Mackall, the regrettable incident near Sicily , when the USN shot down a number of C-47's carrying Paratroops, claiming (1) "misidentification" and (2) the USN had told the USAAF that they would shoot at ANY aircraft that flew over the Invasion fleet.. ) . Unfortunately, Sicily was at the extreme end of range for the C-47's , so they had to fly a straight line from North Africa , which took them right over the Invasion Fleet.

www.historynet.com

How a Friendly Fire Tragedy in Sicily Transformed Airborne Warfare

During 1943's Operation Husky, fire from ship and shore killed dozens of Americans—and provided the Allies with a costly lesson.
www.historynet.com www.historynet.com
 
Sweet! You even have your own Docent portal log in! A good friend (since college) is a Docent at the National Nuclear museum at Kirtland AFB.
 
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