CG-4 Hadrian

He informs the War Office that operations are being planned in Burma for the coming autumn.

He asks about the possibility of obtaining 200 American Waco gliders.

By May 1942, the Army has ordered some 2,345 horses for future airborne operations.

As soon as production begins, expert subcontractors suggest a number of improvements and refinements.

On August 31, 1942, the Ministry of Aircraft Production sends a coded message to the British Air Commission in Washington.

It reads, Scheme to produce horses in India abandoned.

Requirement, 20 Wacos and 10 glider pilots to arrive in India by early 1943 to facilitate planning of a glider-borne force.

An additional 200 Wacos to be delivered by June 1943.

Military trainers for a country that was beginning to sense, however reluctantly, that another war was coming.

The UPF-7 trainer was used extensively to prepare military pilots for combat, and the CG-4A glider, built by Waco under wartime contract, carried Allied troops into occupied France on D-Day and into Holland during Operation Market Garden.

I want you to sit with that for a moment.

A biplane company from Troy, Ohio, put soldiers into the sky over Normandy.