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...Tennessee maneuvers last week a full U.S. airborne division was used in a tactical operation with larger units. Paratroops and glider-borne infantry carried out the attack. Riding with the glidermen was TIME Correspondent John H. Walker, who wrote this account...
...airborne attack was launched from Campbell Field, Ky., 100 miles northwest of the battlefield. In the grey mist big transports thundered down the runways closely spaced, each plane crammed with paratroops and each towing a bulky Army glider...
...time for us to get moving. Major General William Carey Lee, division commander, who had invited me to ride with him, led the way to Glider 37, whispering mildly: "Well, here we go again." We piled...
...Wilmott Ragsdale, about whom I last told you when he was looping the loop with our desert glider students at Twentynine Palms and swooping down Mt. Rainier with the ski troopers, is now with the U.S. Army in Britain...
Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...