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Travel Bug Dog Tag WW II-Silent Wings Museum TB13

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of wiscoripple.

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Current Goal

This and several other of my travel bugs are shamelessly being discovered at events (mostly in Europe) while actually moving elsewhere, or being missing for years. The tracking numbers were placed on Pinterest and Facebook pages, and on at least two lists that are being taken from event to event. I delete the discovery logs when I see them, to eliminate confusion among cachers who are actually holding the bugs. Some people just cheat at everything.

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Photos in the travel bug logs are appreciated.  I will be re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.

About This Item

SilentWingPendant

Keychain Pendant (WACO-CG4A). This item was purchased at the Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock, TX. The museum preserves and promotes the history of the World War II military glider program. The facility is located on the site of the World War II South Plains Army Air Field, where about 80% of the glider pilots were trained between 1942 and 1945. The pendant depicts a WACO CG4A, the most widely used United States troop/cargo military glider of World War II.  Among many exhibits, the museum houses a faithfully restored example of the nearly the nearly 15,000 WACO gliders built during the war effort.
 
The CG-4A was constructed of fabric-covered wood and metal and was crewed by a pilot and copilot. It had two fixed mainwheels and a tailwheel. The CG-4A could carry 13 troops and their equipment. Cargo loads could be a jeep, a 75 mm howitzer, or a ¼ ton trailer; they were loaded through the upward-hinged nose section. C-47s were usually used as tow aircraft. CG-4As went into operation in July 1943 during the Allied invasion of Sicily. They participated in the American airborne landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, and in other important airborne operations in Europe and in the China-Burma-India Theater.
 
The WACOs were conceived and built to be retrieved and reused. On the battlefield a tow cable was elevated to be available for a low-flying tow plane equipped with a tail hook. However, gliders were generally considered expendable by high-ranking European theater officers and combat personnel and were usually abandoned, or destroyed, after the initial landing. Despite this general lack of support for the recovery system, several gliders were recovered from Normandy and even more from the Operation Market-Garden in the Netherlands and Wesel, Germany.

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Discovered It 8/12/2014 KeeganC discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered today at West Bend Cache Ba$h 2014. Thanks for sharing.

Discovered It 8/10/2014 lostcheq discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the WB Cache Ba$h ’14 😉

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/10/2014 ski21 retrieved it from Travel Bugs & GeoCoins & Jeeps Oh My @ The Ba$h #2 Wisconsin   Visit Log

Picked it up at the West Bend Cache Bash. Thanks for sharing!

Discovered It 8/9/2014 Kishiru Krew discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it at Travel Bugs & GeoCoins & Jeeps Oh My @ The Ba$h #2. Thank you for sharing.

Discovered It 8/9/2014 labzone discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it at Travel Bugs & GeoCoins & Jeeps Oh My @ The Ba$h #2 Thank you for sharing.

Discovered It 8/9/2014 cummins6061 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the West Bend Cache Ba$h. Thanx for sharing!

Discovered It 8/9/2014 AwfulHorrid discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the Travel Bugs & GeoCoins & Jeeps Oh My @ The Ba$h #2 (part of the West Bend $1000 Cache Ba$h 2014.)
Woof!
- Fred

Discovered It 8/9/2014 kmsnoop discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the 2014 West Bend Cache Ba$h. Thanks for sharing!

-kmsnoop

Discovered It 8/9/2014 AKprincesswarrior discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the West Bend Ca$h Bash! Thanks for sharing everyone!

Discovered It 8/9/2014 dawnzie discovered it   Visit Log

Hello, I discovered you at the 2014 We$t Bend Ca$he Ba$h, WI events. It was a great time and it is so great that we got to see so many TB’s. TFS your’s!!!

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