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13 - Gliders

The WW2 Podcast

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Air Landing in a Time of War

Some air landing vets would be sick the whole time, some of them just didn't mind it. It's not easy to see out; you kind of sat with your back against the fuse a large. If you're lucky, you can see through the portal opposite behind the head of the chap set opposite you. But then you're only getting a tiny glimpse of what's going on. A lot of people believe they were built to be crash landed. They weren't particularly built to land. And if they could be retrieved, then they were retrieved. After D-Day, there was a special unit that cannibalized all the surviving bits of horse or gliders and bolted them back together.

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