C-47s Make V For Victory!!!

[Jack Cook]

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]

Now those are some serious invasion stripes.

[The Inspector]

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]

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]

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