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US Army Gliders And Their Importance In WWII
The pilots for glider units, with the first eventually being designated the 88th Glider Infantry Regiment, were involuntarily volunteered from other units. Glider pilots for these units were ...
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Salisbury anniversary fly-past to remember D-Day Gliders
The event in honour of the Elite Glider Pilot Regiment will take place at Tilshead Stones on Salisbury Plain. The regiment took part in some of the most daring operations that turned the course of ...
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100-year-old North Wales war veteran tells of flying 'mosquito made of plywood' gliders used for D-Day
Brian Latham is one of two surviving members of the Second World War Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) who stressed the importance of the wooden aircraft on D-Day, who said “it couldn’t have been ...
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Glider crash victims remembered on 80th anniversary
Twenty-one Royal Engineers on their way to the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands were killed, along with two Glider Regiment pilots. Hundreds of people, including members of the Royal Engineers ...