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Jackie Coogan - actor, former WW2-era combat Glider Pilot; Adela Dankowska - held 12 world records and 43 Polish records during her career; Anthony Deane-Drummond - major-general & British national champion; Heini Dittmar - test pilot (first person over 1000 km/h) and gliding record breaker; Wilhelm Düerkop - glider aerobatic champion
The shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 prompted the United States to set the number of glider pilots needed at 1,000 to fly 500 eight-seat gliders and 500 fifteen-seat gliders. The number of pilots required was increased to 6,000 by June 1942. [2]
The Glider Pilot Regiment was a British airborne forces unit of the Second World War, which was responsible for crewing the British Army's military gliders and saw action in the European theatre in support of Allied airborne operations. Established during the war in 1942, the regiment was disbanded in 1957.
Focke-Achgelis Fa 225, rotary wing glider. 1 built. Gotha Go 242 (1941), transport, 23 troops. 1,528 built. Gotha Go 244 , motorised version of Go 242, 43 built and 133 Go 242B converted.
Pages in category "United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 727 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The success of German glider-borne forces early in World War II catapulted the Army Air Forces into a glider program in February 1941. In December 1941, plans called for training 1,000 AAF glider pilots, but eventually about 5,500 received their wings. Most Glider Pilots came from the enlisted ranks — all were volunteers.
1st Airborne Division paratroopers and gliders during the Battle of Arnhem.. The British airborne forces, during the Second World War, consisted of the Parachute Regiment, the Glider Pilot Regiment, the airlanding battalions, and from 1944 the Special Air Service Troops. [1]
Staff Sergeant James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 – 24 January 2013) was a British soldier and a member of the Glider Pilot Regiment who achieved notability as the pilot of the first Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Second World War.