FIRST ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY Part 3
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Supplies are brought to an airfield in England in trucks. The bundles are attached to parachutes and loaded into B-24 bombers (converted into transport planes). The transports take off towing gliders. The gliders are released and the supply parachutes dropped over France.
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Records of the Office of the Secretary of War
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