Word: gliderman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot-training schools, and fewer than 200 gliders. By summer's end, the Navy had contracted for 14 experimental gliders, including four to carry troops. A score of Army pilots had entered glider training. Marines were training glider troops, flyers and ground crews. Last September a prominent U.S. gliderman, Philadelphia's lanky, shy Lewin B. Barringer, was appointed civilian director of the Army's training program...
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