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191 - US Glider Pilots of World War II

The WW2 Podcast

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The Battle of the Bulge

In some cases, I believe it was market garden, something like 5% of the men on the ground were glider pilots. It's a lot of pilots when you put it like that. No one was more dedicated to helping the troops on the ground, but was inexcusably poorly trained to do so minimal infantry training and that sort of thing. Obviously, we're better trained from that standpoint.

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