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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
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)
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.
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]
Pages in category "Glider pilots" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The volunteers for glider-borne infantry were formed into airlanding battalions from December 1941. [ 6 ] The success of early British airborne operations prompted the War Office to expand the existing airborne force, setting up the Airborne Forces Depot and Battle School in Derbyshire in April 1942, and creating the Parachute Regiment . [ 7 ]
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.
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.