Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII

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

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.

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

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

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

Junkers Ju 87 A Stuka

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

Waco CG-4A

Lt Leo Cordier ready for his fifth combat glider landing.

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.

Towed by a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

Heinkel He 111

Dornier Do 17 Z

DFS 230

Taken by the third man aboard a DFS 230 glider.

Messerschmitt Bf 110 B

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E

Gotha Go 242

Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis

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

Heinkel He 51

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

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

Towing Horsa gliders (look bottom).

Curtiss-Wright C-46A Commando

Various Aircraft

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

Different kind of projects and studies.

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A

Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant

Towed by a troika of three Messerschmitt Bf 110.

Messerschmitt Bf 110 C

PZL P.24

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

Avro 626

Unidentified Aircraft

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

Stinson L-1 Vigilant

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.

Schweizer TG-2

Mitsubishi G3M

Mitsubishi Ki-30

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

Nakajima B5N

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

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Aichi D3A

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

Mitsubishi A5M

Nakajima Ki-27

Consolidated PBY Catalina

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

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.

Curtiss P-40B Warhawk

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

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

Piper L-4 Cub

Curtiss JN Jenny

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

Airspeed AS.51 Horsa I

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

North American B-25 Mitchell

Hawker Hurricane

North American P-51A Mustang

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

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Junkers Ju 87 D Stuka

Junkers Ju 88

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• Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII on IMDb