437th Troop Carrier Group: --SERIAL A-9 The men in this photo are 17th Airborne "Glide Riders" from Company C of the 194th Glider Infantry Company. The photo was taken just before take off to Landing Zone S, located north and slightly east of Wesel Germany. The airfield number is A-58 Coulommiers/Voisins Courcy, 62km (38.5 miles) east of Paris. Their glider is one of 80 gliders (Chalk 81 - 158) in serial A9 on duel tow by forty C-47. This was the first and only time duel tow was used in combat. The records only list C-47 Chalk 20 towing Glider Chalk number 119, glider #120 is not listed. But Lt. Coulter should have had glider #119 on the short tow rope and glider #120 on the long tow rope. Although we do not, as yet, have the names of the men in the photo Hans den Brok has provided the names of the C-47 crew.

Tow Plane: C-47 Chalk number 20 Identification number 43-15356:

Crew
Pilot	1st Lt. Arthur E. Coulter
Co-Pilot	2nd Lt. Philip M. Ruth
Radio Operator	T/Sgt. Emil ? Cox
Crew Chief	S/Sgt. Beverly L. Burton

Glider: CG-4A Glider Chalk number 119 Identification number 43-41351:

Crew
Pilot	F/O Vergil O. Waikling
Co-Pilot	F/O Donald F. Myers