Glider Operations :: '42 ~ '45

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  1. Diptangshu

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    Hamilcar gliders (the biggest//Waco, the smallest) of the 1st Airborne, enable to carry light tanks like Tetrarch or jeeps to the front. This due to its enormous wing-span of about 112ft / 34m, been the largest WOODEN Aircraft (8 tons and the same more to load) of the Airborne Combat History of WW2 !

    I know about CG13 (US) but aint 've any infos wheather it ever carried any of Such loads.

    Good infoes on The Brief History of Combat Gliders in WW2 by J L Lawden, here at :
    http://www.indianamilitary.org/ATTERBURYAAF/Glider CG-4A/Gliders.htm
     
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    Life expectancy of a Glider Pilot (WW2) comparing to Others .... ! Someone told me to check it here :

    http://www.notoriousnkp.org/index.html

    " Those Damned Glider Pilots " ~ W D Knickerbocker ..

    Bomber Pilot : 1.45 hrs
    Fighter Pilot : 20mins
    Glider Pilot : 15secs ..!
     
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    Op Horsa Bridge : Order of Battle ~
    http://www.americandday.org/D-Day/Horsa_Bridge_Order_of_battle.html
    Not only this, the combat glider support at the Caen bridge head of the 6th Airborne Dv (Please recall Maj Howard of the light infantry against formidable 21st Panzers), or the Chindit commandos when charged the Japs from behind in Burma, or you may just think of the 37mm ATGs that been carried into, how much effective it was there to destroy the German pill boxes during the D-Days, just unmatched . I think without the constant Combat Glider support, throughout all the struggles for crossing the Rhine, would have been impossible !
     
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