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

Transport gliders in hold

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

View of an undamaged Polish city from the cockpit of a German medium bomber aircraft, likely a Heinkel He 111 P, in 1939.