C-47s Make V For Victory!!!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:09 pm

C-47s, Jeeps and M-1 Garands right :!:

C-47 439th TCG July 1944

C-47 Medivac and crew first to land in France June 1944

Glider tow line hook up.

Dan K · **Posted:** Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:46 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Now those are some serious invasion stripes. :wink:

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:12 pm

5 gallons of stove black, 5 gallons of white, a few mops and brushes and a sketch or two copied and handed out around sunset on June 5th to the ground pounders on the field, VIOLA!!! model contest winning invasions stripes

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:45 am

In one D-Day documentary the narrator said that they used up all the white house paint in England on invasion stripes. Don't know if that's true, but it makes a cool story.

Great pics as always Jack. That's the first really good shot I've ever seen of the glider-towing rig.

SN

Glen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:29 am

My Grand Father Thomas Wilson Harber got a 10 $ war patton designing the Comuntion Cable between the Tow plane and the Glider . He was working at Sheppard Air Field Witchatal Fall Texas in 1943 teaching Glider pilots Math . The Gov was very appericative dont you know ! for 10 bucks they should be :roll:

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