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This video is excellent and shows a lot of details by compiling various films. The various tugs pulling the CG-4A gliders was an exhibition at L-M in NC. Part of this exhibition was Mike Murphy's "Pea Patch" show at night. Some of the tug pilots and glider pilots for this exhibition were from Wright Field and CCAAF as well as Murphy's students at L-M. The flights were exhibitions, not tests, of the various tugs.
Testing had already been done at the glider test field, Clinton County Army Air Field, Wilmington, Ohio. The A-25, B-17, B-23, B-24, B-25, C-46, C-47, C-53, C-54, C-60, P-38 and the PBY or whatever it was were tested as tugs at CCAAF and proper engine and exhaust and propeller settings for towing were determined. Using the PBY as tug was to be considered emergency only and not used under normal conditions.
In these videos you will hear that some tugs flew before the CG-4A. This was a forced condition. The glider pilot had to fly the glider on the ground or close to ground until after that tug was flying so as to not force the tug-tail up and cause it to fly into the ground.
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Charles Day,
Silent Ones WWII Invasion Glider Test & Experiment CCAAF Wilmington Ohio
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