In 1942, Rochester was chosen as the base for the military’s experimental glider training program. Two years later, those ...

Images of the glider in flight (here, a CG-4 prototype) don’t capture the human drama of a CG-4 mission, as the museum’s finished display does. NASM Neg. #2002-3809 WANTED: Waco CG-4 Troop Glider - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue honoring a World War II glider pilot who participated in the D-Day invasion will be erected after the Niles Village Board ...

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 ...

The WACO Historical Society will host guest speakers Charles Davis, Lee Mendenhall and David Short of the Veteran’s Memorial Museum in Germantown on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. at the WACO Air Museum, ...

Engineers have rebuilt D-Day relics in virtual reality using blueprints for the devices that were used the storming of Normandy seventy years ago. History buffs will be able to view these 3D animated ...

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 ...

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 ...