The hedgerow CG-4A

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  1. Jonesy

    Jonesy Active Member
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    I've had a copy of this photo for a while but forgot all about it.

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    John was correct about the available light showing inside the CG-4A as it appears that the canvas sides have been removed.

    I can't see any other gliders behind it in the field which would help to identify its location. This one could be tricky but hey, if it was easy, I would have figured it out.

    Neil.
     
  2. Pat Curran

    Pat Curran Administrator
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    Hi Neil,

    The detached wings look almost too neatly severed and the fuselage is dead square onto the hedgerow - could be just a coincidence, but the whole package reminds me a lot of these two Wacos, used as some form of storage or accommodation perhaps by a GRS unit on what looks like the Blosville Cemetery Field at Les Forges:
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    It could be just co-incidence but you never know...

    Regards,

    Pat
     
  3. Jonesy

    Jonesy Active Member
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    I like the theory although it's not of them two as the one in my photo has a Griswold nose.
     
  4. Pat Curran

    Pat Curran Administrator
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    Enough to go round...:D

    There is at least four, counting the wreckage at lower right, in the field:
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    Notice also how suitable the southern half of the western hedge is as a match for your photo...low embankment, drainage ditch (at least on the western side) and widely separated trees.

    Unfortunately later aerial coverage is in short supply :huh:

    Regards,

    Pat
     
  5. Pat Curran

    Pat Curran Administrator
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    OK,

    This is what I was looking to check - some segment of the two hedgerows running N/S at upper right in this post war aerial should match at least some of the treeline on the starboard side of the glider in Neil's photo. I am looking at the western hedgerows of the two fields on the far side of the cemetery. The view is west.

    If its there, I cannot see it :-/

    Regards,

    Pat
     

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