On airfield of Italian mainland German servicemen making ready a Luftwaffe’s Junkers Ju-87 towing plane and a transport glider DFS-230 for delivery of supplies to German troops in Sicily fighting the Allied forces, July 1943. The photo (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-567-1519-30) depicts the operation of lock of long towing cable to towing plane and to glider. Victor Sierra

Stuka towing plane

The enormous size of the Messerschmitt Me  323 heavy transport aircraft of 6/TG 5 is made very evident by this picture raken at Ilonca, Romania, summer 1944.

Credit: Sammlung Lächler/ Jet&Prop Foto Archiv

Messerschmitt Me 323 in Romania.

Luftwaffe’s transport glider DFS-230s waiting for towing from an Italian mainland’s airfield to Sicily, July 1943, for delivery of supplies to German troops. In foreground the nose of a towing plane Dornier Do-17. Another Do.17 is in background (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-565-1407-35A). Victor Sierra