Combat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart
Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets . They were not pretty and
had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose
and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the
heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a
canvas-covered frame. Twice the length of the body, these wings
were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright
Brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. They could not become
airborne, let alone fly, unless assisted by an engine-powered tow
plane. And for those riding in the back, it was like flying through
the gates of hell . The men who were trained and assigned to guide
gliders into battle were said to be the only pilots who had no
motors, armament, parachutes and no second chances. Like the
aircraft they commanded, they were called inglorious names such as
The Bastards Nobody Wanted, Glider Gladiators in Wooden Chariots;
Hybrid Jackasses and Glory Boys. Beautifully written, profoundly
illustrated and researched, Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the
Second World War is a work that is dedicated to those brave men
under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on
D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler s
radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini."
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