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An Eyewitness History of World War II Glider Combat

96 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Met lit. opg. 288 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. + Index (8 p.)

Market Holland Sept. 1944 : USAAF Glider pilots - IX Troop Carrier Command : Hun geschiedenis

Originally published: New York : St Martin's Press, 1978. xvii, 717 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references. xii, 258 pages 8 plates (including portraits) 23 cm

Diary of a Glider Pilot

Diary of a Glider Pilot

Diary of a Glider Pilot

A fighting glider pilot remembers

Glider and re-supply missions in September 1944

"On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop ...