Word: gliderfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying as observers it seemed that the operation was moving at the unreal pace of a speeded-up movie. Within 30 seconds the drop had begun, German flak opened up, colored equipment parachutes dotted the ground, a white parachute was hung up in a tree, a big Hamilcar (British) glider lay on its back, broken and burning...
...Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore itself almost to bits Silk on an antiglider post, bounced right across a road, crashed head-on into a ditch at 50 miles an hour (Silk was badly banged up, counts himself lucky to have come out of the wreck alive...
Tuesday morning the blow fell. Parachute and glider troops dropped down before dawn on German strongpoints inland. By sunrise a great Allied fleet of 800 ships was offshore battering coastal positions with its big guns while powerful air assault forces concentrated their bombs and bullets on the beachhead...
...witch was tiny (95 lb.) Hanna Reitsch, famed glider and helicopter pilot (who was a U.S. National Air Races stunting favorite in 1938). The story: in 1942 V-1 had a tendency to shake off its wings. In a robot fitted with landing skids...
...82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing...