World War II Glider Pilots
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Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | : 0938021958 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | : 0938021958 |
Author | : Scott McGaugh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472852966 |
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.
Author | : James E. Mrazek |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081170808X |
"Long pursued by civilian thrill seekers and dare devils, airborne gliding came of age during World War II as one of that conflict's most dangerous combat operations. The armed forces of Axis and Allied nations developed gliders ... and flew them into battle at Eben Emael, Crete, Normandy, Arnhem, and Bastogne. [The author's] account brings to life both the men who carried out these perilous missions and the gliders that proved vital to the success of airborne attacks"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : J. Norman Grim |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1438904843 |
Life, love, heartache and love again. Some real, some imagined - all with very real emotion.
Author | : Mike Peters |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2013-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783378484 |
The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Air landing troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about. The men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) had self-assembled the gliders while living in the empty packing cases. They accomplished this complex and technically challenged task while living on fly ridden, dusty North African airfields. After only a few hours of conversion training they took off for a night flight across the Mediterranean Sea that was to end in near-catastrophe.With over three hundred soldiers drowned off Sicily that night in July 1943, the first major operation attempted by the British using gliders almost ended in total disaster. In fact a few Airborne troops reached dry land and attacked their objectives. Shining examples of collective and individual acts of courage rocked the Italian and German defenders. This book tells the controversial story of that first mass glider operation and the men who proved the GPR motto Nothing is Impossible.This is the first account of the Sicily air landing operation.
Author | : Michael Skidmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2020-08-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Story of U.S. Army Air Corps Glider Pilots in World War II, from the 91st TCS - 439th TCG during World War II.
Author | : Gerard M. Devlin |
Publisher | : W H Allen |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178200775X |
Military gliders came of age in World War II, when glider assault infantry were the forerunners of today's helicopter-delivered airmobile troops. From the light pre-war sports and training machines, several nations developed troop-carrying gliders capable of getting a whole squad or more of infantry, with heavy weapons, onto the ground quickly, with the equipment that paratroopers simply could not carry. They made up at least one-third of the strength of US, British, and German airborne divisions in major battles, and they also carried out several daring coup de main raids and spearhead operations. However, the dangers were extreme, the techniques were difficult, the losses were heavy (particularly during night operations), and the day of the glider assault was relatively brief. This book explains the development and organization of glider troops, their mounts, and the air squadrons formed to tow them, the steep and costly learning-curve and the tactics that such troops learned to employ once they arrived on the battlefield.
Author | : Gale Richard Ammerman |
Publisher | : Merriam Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | : 1576382141 |
Author | : Claude Smith |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147381507X |
The untold story of this tiny, little-known British Army regiment and the daring men who piloted engineless aircraft to WWII’s major battlefields. The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the regiment gained as much distinction as it has taken other units hundreds of years to achieve. Yet, strangely enough, the story of these heroic men who piloted their flimsy gliders to most of the important battlefields of the Second World War has never before been told. It is indeed a remarkable story, and no one is better qualified to tell it than Claude Smith, who himself served with the regiment and took part in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and later in the ill-fated landing at Arnhem, where he was taken prisoner. Smith tells the story of these supremely brave men factually and dispassionately, but it is impossible to read this book without being moved by their courage. As General Sir John Hackett says in his foreword: “Those who went to battle in gliders and above all those who got them there, the Glider Pilots, deserve our enduring esteem.” Includes maps and illustrations