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Sirs: TIME'S story "Battle of Asia" [March 27] leaves off where the real work began. Colonel Cochran ably planned and executed the first night's glider-borne operation, fortified by loan of two of Brigadier General William D. Old's troop carrier squadron planes and pilots (American). Beginning D plus 1 night, General Old fired his American and British squadron planes into "Broadway" (code name for strip) at a rate that would have left the dispatcher at LaGuardia dizzy. I counted as many as ten transports circling simultaneously, waiting clearance to land...
Later in the week Colonel Cochran pulled off another glider, show, opened up a second strip-"Chowringah...
From across the moat they heard by the wireless that the Allies had just carried out their biggest maneuvers yet with para chute and glider-borne soldiers, British and U.S. Soon the same men would drop down out of the night somewhere on the Continent...
...were running all over the field shouting instructions. Often those trying to help wounded men off the field would have to duck out of the path of a landing glider. . . . We learned lots of lessons...
Fiction Writer James Warner Bellah, now an infantry lieutenant colonel, made the flight, told how 50 men sweated to haul glider wrecks from the landing path...