U.S. Army Air Force Douglas C-47 <i>Skytrain</i> transports and Waco CG-4A gliders lined up for "Operation Varsity" on 24 March 1945.
USAF
1945-03-24
U.S. Air Force photo in the official USAF publication <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/cravenAAFWWII.htm">The Army Air Forces in World War II</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/aaf_wwii-v3.pdf">Volume 3 - Europe: Argument to V-E Day</a>, p. 745.