Word: glider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glider-borne troops were used by the invaders...
...Nazi troop concentrations against Iceland in northern Norway. Some observers saw the pattern for invasion in the attack on Crete. Should the Nazis hazard it. they would find Iceland twelve times as large, and with a population three times as small as Crete-much better suited to parachute and glider tactics. But Iceland lies at least five times as far from nearest Nazi bases as Crete from the mainland of Greece. Since last May, when Canadian troops landed to guard armyless, navyless Iceland, the British have put, according to some reports, 80,000 men on the island...
...this expansion, bouquets go to 31-year-old millionaire-socialite Richard Chichester du Pont, onetime champion glider pilot. Talked about since a piano-wired Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages...
...ports and communications. The British did not have long-range fighters to accompany bombers on distant daylight raids into Germany. Nor did they let their African successes blind them to the dangers of invasion. "We must all be prepared," said Winston Churchill, "to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks with constancy, forethought and practiced skill...
...ground-crow during the meet will consist of Theodore L. Hazlett, Jr. '40, Norman Updograff '40, and Francis Johnson '40, After the contest Rodman Glider, Jr. '40 last year's president, plans to join Stacey and other members in a soaring trip out West, while later in the summer practice in the new utility glider will be held at Nashua, New Hampshire...