Marines put together for glider coaching at their coaching base on Parris Island, South Carolina, in Could 1942. The gliders are examples of the Schweizer LNS-1 and the Marines belong to Glider Group 71. The biplanes are the Naval Plane Manufacturing facility N3N-3s that towed the gliders into the air. The photographer was Alfred Palmer, who was at Parris Island on project for the Workplace of Struggle Info.
The LNS-1 was a two-seat sailplane with a size of 25 ft and a wingspan of simply over 52 ft. It was the navy model of a sailplane made by Schweizer Plane Firm, which was based by three brothers and based mostly in Elmira, New York. At one level the Schweizers labored out of the household barn after which within the basement of a knitting manufacturing unit. Their first glider, the SGP-1, debuted in 1930. They launched the 2-8 in 1938 and this grew to become the premise for the LNS-1, though the navy had them manufactured from wooden as a substitute of war-restricted metals.
The U.S. navy had been scrambling to catch as much as the Germans with glider assaults, resulting in the creation of the Marine group, the concept being that the Leathernecks may use the unpowered craft as a component in amphibious assaults. Nevertheless, Marines have been primarily engaged within the island hopping campaigns within the Pacific, the place glider assaults have been decided to be not sensible. The glider program was quickly canceled.
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