C-47 Allied glider picked up in France for tow back to England.

C-47 Allied glider picked up in France for tow back to England. A look trails from the mid-section of an Allied transport plane ready to pick up a glider from a field in liberated French Normandy and tow the motorless aircraft back to England. the transport rears low over a special framework (under plane's nose) where the tow rope of the glider is swung for casy pick-up. The glider (background) one of the hundreds which transported Allied troops behind German coastel defenses in Northern France, stands ready to be lifted into the air.