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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II


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  1. Not a SOY-BOY among them!

    Balls of STEEL!

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  2. My father was a combat glider pilot..First in on D-Day, participated in three other drops. They were not volunteers, but assigned after flight school by random count.

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  3. So that would be two years of training, one night of sheer terror, followed by three months of waiting, another night of sheer terror, more waiting......
    Here's the WWII mission that was probably the most boring and the most dangerous.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4cqSGsQTc&t=482s
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  4. My father, a 30-year Air Force career colonel, best friend (also a 30-year AF colonel) was a glider pilot in WW-2 ... and right after D-Day, his glider "crash landed" and he was captured by the Krauts and held as a POW for two years.

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  5. My flight instructor for my PPL was a glider pilot, name of Joe Stahl (grin). Joe never flew a combat mission, he was in line for one in the invasion of Japan. He died in a late night car crash on the way home from an EAA meeting at age 85. RIP Joe.

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