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The Glider Gang

The Glider Gang

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{detailed description}The exploits of the paratroops and other elite groups in World War II have been recounted by historians, but the heroic role of the Allied glider pilots has remained little known and even less understood. Now Milton Dank, who served as a glider pilot on three airborne invasions, tells the complete, fully documented story of those daredevil volunteers.
This is the saga of the men who flew the fragile canvas or plywood motorless aircraft into Sicily, Normandy, southern France, Holland, and across the Rhine to deliver cannon, jeeps and reinforcements to the embattled paratroopers. Recklessly brave and grimly determined, the glider pilots endured not only the enemy's flak but foul weather, inexperienced towplane pilots, gliders that tended to shed parts in mid-air, their own lack of ground combat training, and inadequate planning at high levels for the airborne assaults.
Even perfectly executed glider landings tended to be little more than controlled crashes, and on one occasion the pilots discovered that they were carrying their own grave-marking materials. But though their casualties were tragically high, they risked their lives to complete their all-important missions.
By turns moving and horrifying, inspiring and shocking, the glider pilots' story is superbly chronicled here, often in their own highly dramatic words.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Milton Dank
published by Cassell and Company 1978 1st UK edn. 273pp illustrated, index, bibliography. 16x24
{condition}very good in slightly torn d/j.
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