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<b>Documentary (2007)<br></b>
 
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The whole story of american gliders, from the early race to build unpowered aircrafts to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender. Covers the source of this concept, mainly in Germany.
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The whole story of american gliders, from the early race to build unpowered aircraft to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender. Covers the source of this concept, mainly in Germany.
  
 
== [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] ==
 
== [[:Category: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] ==
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju-52|Junkers Ju-52/3m]] ==
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju 52|Junkers Ju 52/3m]] ==
 
Numerous airframes seen throughout the first half of the documentary.<br>
 
Numerous airframes seen throughout the first half of the documentary.<br>
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The first one is coded D-AXIO Junkers Ju-52/3m of the Luftwaffe.
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The first one is coded D-AXIO Junkers Ju 52/3m of the Luftwaffe.
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52_D-AXIO.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52_D-AXIO.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
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Wearing the identification code D1+4?<br>
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Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52G.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52G.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52-3m.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52-3m.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-52_low.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju-87 Stuka | Junkers Ju-87B Stuka]] ==
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka | Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka]] ==
 
Probably from a nazi propaganda movie (which one ?).
 
Probably from a nazi propaganda movie (which one ?).
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87_propaStf.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87_propaStf.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87_Dive.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju-87 Stuka | Junkers Ju-87A Stuka]] ==
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka | Junkers Ju 87 A Stuka]] ==
 
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87A_DV.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87A_DV.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
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== [[:Category:  Dornier Do 17 | Dornier Do 17 Z]] ==
 
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== DFS 230 ==
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== [[:Category: DFS 230|DFS 230]] ==
 
[[Image:SW_DFS-230.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_DFS-230.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
Taken by the third man aboard a DFS 230 glider.
 
Taken by the third man aboard a DFS 230 glider.
 
[[Image:SW_DFS-230_inside.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 110| Messerschmitt Bf 110 B]] ==  
 
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== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Bf 109E]] ==  
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== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Bf 109 E]] ==  
 
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== [[:Category: Messerschmitt Bf 110| Messerschmitt Bf 110 C]] ==  
 
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== [[:Category: PZL P.24|PZL P.24]] ==
 
Remains of the PZL P.24 Delta 126 of the Greek Air Force.
 
Remains of the PZL P.24 Delta 126 of the Greek Air Force.
 
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== [[:Category: Stinson L-1 Vigilant|Stinson L-1 Vigilant]] ==
 
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== [[:Category: Aichi D3A|Aichi D3A]] ==
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Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]] (Military Fixed-Wing).
 
[[Image:SW_Aichi_D3A.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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Boeing B-17C USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) s/n 40-2074 at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Hickam Field]].<br>
 
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
[[Image:SW_B-17C_TheWar1.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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Same aircraft in other movies at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft]].
 
[[Image:SW_P-40B.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Curtiss JN|Curtiss JN <i>Jenny</i>]] ==
 
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== [[:Category: Curtiss JN|Curtiss JN <i>Jenny</i>]] ==
 
 
Same Barnstormer, "Jersey" Ringel, seen in [[Mystères d'archives (TV Series)]] Season One, Episode One.
 
Same Barnstormer, "Jersey" Ringel, seen in [[Mystères d'archives (TV Series)]] Season One, Episode One.
 
[[Image:SW_Barnstorm2_cf_MystArch-1-1.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka | Junkers Ju 87 D Stuka]] ==
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-87D.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
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== [[:Category: Junkers Ju 88| Junkers Ju 88]] ==  
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-88Dive.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
 
[[Image:SW_Ju-88Dive.jpg|thumb|500px|none|]]
  
 
{{footnote}}
 
{{footnote}}
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828451/ Silent Wings : The American Glider Pilots of WWII at IMDb]
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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828451/ Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII on IMDb]
  
 
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[[Category: North American P-51 Mustang]]  
 
[[Category: North American P-51 Mustang]]  
 
[[Category: Piper J-3 Cub]]
 
[[Category: Piper J-3 Cub]]
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[[Category: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt]]  
 
[[Category: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt]]  
 
[[Category: Ryan NYP]]  
 
[[Category: Ryan NYP]]  

Latest revision as of 01:02, 5 June 2022

Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII title screen.

Documentary (2007)

Starring:
Hal Holbrook (Narrator)
Leo Cordier (Himself)
Andrew Rooney (Himself)

The whole story of american gliders, from the early race to build unpowered aircraft to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender. Covers the source of this concept, mainly in Germany.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

SW B-17.jpg
SW B-17 leaflets.jpg

Junkers Ju 52/3m

Numerous airframes seen throughout the first half of the documentary.
The first one is coded D-AXIO Junkers Ju 52/3m of the Luftwaffe.

SW Ju-52 D-AXIO.jpg

Wearing the identification code D1+4?
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW Ju-52G.jpg
SW Ju-52-3m.jpg
SW Ju-52 low.jpg

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

Probably from a nazi propaganda movie (which one ?).

SW Ju-87 propaStf.jpg
SW Ju-87 Dive.jpg

Junkers Ju 87 A Stuka

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW Ju-87A DV.jpg

Waco CG-4A

Lt Leo Cordier ready for his fifth combat glider landing.

SW Waco-CG4A Lt-Cordier.jpg
SW Waco-CG4A.jpg
SW Waco-CG4A1.jpg
SW CG-4A craie.jpg

Waco CG-4A-RO

Crash of Waco CG-4A-RO s/n 42-78839. Robertson Aircraft Company in St. Louis was contracting to build Waco CG-4A-RO gliders under license. Several VIPs were getting a demonstration ride on 1st August 1943. 10 deads.

SW CG-4A StLouis.jpg

Towed by a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

SW C-47 CG-4A.jpg
SW CG-4A crashed.jpg

Heinkel He 111

SW Heinkel-111.jpg
SW Heinkel-111H.jpg

Dornier Do 17 Z

SW Do17Z-facettes.jpg
SW Do-17.jpg

DFS 230

SW DFS-230.jpg

Taken by the third man aboard a DFS 230 glider.

SW DFS-230 inside.jpg

Messerschmitt Bf 110 B

SW Bf-110B.jpg

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E

SW Bf-109.jpg

Gotha Go 242

SW Go-242.jpg
SW Go-242a.jpg

Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW Ryan NYP.jpg

Heinkel He 51

SW Heinkel He-51prob.jpg

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

SW C-47fact.jpg

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW C-47 crash DV-Glory.jpg
SW C-47 color2.jpg
SW C-47 color.jpg

Towing Horsa gliders (look bottom).

SW C-47 Horsa.jpg

Curtiss-Wright C-46A Commando

SW C-46.jpg
SW C-46bis.jpg

Various Aircraft

Wright Field during the early thirties. The widest shape is probably a Boeing B-9.

SW Wright-30s.jpg

Different kind of projects and studies.

SW project-A1.jpg
SW project-A2.jpg

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A

SW FW-190.jpg

Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant

SW Me-321.jpg
SW Me-321 air.jpg

Towed by a troika of three Messerschmitt Bf 110.

SW Me-321 3Bf-110.jpg

Messerschmitt Bf 110 C

SW Bf-110C.jpg

PZL P.24

Remains of the PZL P.24 Delta 126 of the Greek Air Force.

SW PZL P-24 Delta-126.jpg

Avro 626

SW Avro 626 Tutor.jpg

Unidentified Aircraft

Greek Campaign of 1941. Could it be a RAF Blenheim ?

SW Brit.jpg

Stinson L-1 Vigilant

SW Stinson L-1.jpg
SW Stinson L-1 Vigilant.jpg

Unidentified Training Glider

The poor quality od this screenshot doesn't allow to distinguish a Frankfort TG-1 from a Schweizer (TG-2 or TG-3) or a Laister-Kauffman TG-4.

SW unk TG.jpg
SW unk TG boarding.jpg

Schweizer TG-2

SW Schweizer TG-2.jpg

Mitsubishi G3M

SW Mitsubishi G3M.jpg
SW Mitsubishi G3Ma.jpg

Mitsubishi Ki-30

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW Mitsubishi Ki-30.jpg

Nakajima B5N

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW Nakajima B5N.jpg
SW Nakajima B5N-DV.jpg

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

SW Curtiss P-40.jpg
SW P-40.jpg

Aichi D3A

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

SW Aichi D3A.jpg

Mitsubishi A5M

SW Mitsubishi A5M.jpg

Nakajima Ki-27

SW nippon.jpg

Consolidated PBY Catalina

Same shot in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW PBY TheWar1.jpg

Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress

Boeing B-17C USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) s/n 40-2074 at Hickam Field.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW B-17C TheWar1.jpg

Curtiss P-40B Warhawk

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

SW P-40B.jpg

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

SW Vought OS2U.jpg

Piper L-4 Cub

SW Liaison.jpg

Curtiss JN Jenny

SW Barnstorm1.jpg

Same Barnstormer, "Jersey" Ringel, seen in Mystères d'archives (TV Series) Season One, Episode One.

SW Barnstorm2 cf MystArch-1-1.jpg

Airspeed AS.51 Horsa I

SW Horsa2.jpg
SW Horsa3.jpg
SW Horsa-15.jpg
SW Horsa-Bulge.jpg

LC797, an Airspeed AS.51 Horsa used by american troops.

SW Horsa LC797.jpg

North American B-25 Mitchell

SW B-25.jpg
SW B-25H P-40F.jpg

Hawker Hurricane

SW Hurricane.jpg

North American P-51A Mustang

Probably from the 1st Air Commando Group, CBI theatre.

SW P-51A.jpg
SW P-51Ace.jpg

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

SW P-47.jpg

Junkers Ju 87 D Stuka

SW Ju-87D.jpg

Junkers Ju 88

SW Ju-88Dive.jpg

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