During World War II, WACO won the contract to design and produce engine-less gliders, which were used to transport troops behind enemy lines. “They served the war well, but they weren’t always the ...

A CG 4A Waco glider sits atop the Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum at Fort Campbell. Now a World War II relic, the glider was used to transport soldiers and cargo to military on the ground fighting in ...

A statue honoring a World War II glider pilot who participated in the D-Day invasion will be erected after the Niles Village Board gave approval to commission it at its Feb. 27 meeting. According to ...

Ohio has more than 1,750 historical markers noting people, events and things to know about the state’s history. Nearly 250 of those are in the nine-county Dayton region. Today, we feature the marker ...

World War II glider pilots from across the nation will meet in Lubbock Friday and Saturday to see again the flat terrain of the South Plains Army Air Field where they trained in the early 1940s for ...

One grey morning in October 1944 as the North Luffenham children made their way to the railway station, excitement mounted as we noticed a Waco (Hadrian) glider in the large field that lies opposite ...

A World War II glider that lay undiscovered in a field in Cumbria is now being restored at the Regimental Museum in Carlisle Castle. It is thought the Waco glider was used to carry Border Regiment ...

ORANGE It didn’t start well. First, he was ordered to carry 3,500 pounds of landmines in his glider with no co-pilot. Why waste two lives, his colonel said. Then, a German machine-gun knocked down one ...

It is difficult to say who feared gliders more – the enemy on the ground or the men huddled inside the darkness of those fragile plywood frames. The effectiveness of the gliders was in their silence ...

A World War II glider that lay undiscovered in a field in Cumbria is now being restored at the Regimental Museum in Carlisle Castle. It is thought the Waco glider was used to carry Border Regiment ...