TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN COMBAT GLIDER PILOTS OF WORLD WAR II

                                                         

2008 Reunion of the National WWII Glider Pilots Association - Click here for full details

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Pages without hyperlinks are under construction.

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February 21, 2008:  

It has been a while since I was able to spend any real time making sure the site is up to date.  As a result, some (many?) of the links on different pages that take you to other airborne sites are no longer valid.  I will get around to repairing and updating them as time permits.

 

January 27, 2008:  To the many generous contributors to this site over the recent years:  

Demands of my "day job" and other obligations have prevented me from giving adequate time to this site until recently.  It contains  photos and other material you have so generously sent for use in this site but not all of them.  I will put that material on the site when I can give them adequate attention.  

 

If you browse through it, you may see material you contributed.  If anything you sent is missing, please let me know right away and I will try to put it on the site as soon as possible.  Thank you all for your thoughtfulness and participation in making this site a useful resource for students of WWII, a place where the Glider Pilots can come to remember their comrades and their courageous duty in WWII, and a resource for the families of deceased Glider Pilots who wish to learn more about their relatives' life as Glider Pilots in WWII.  I have received many inquiries from youngsters doing school papers on WWII and from active duty military personnel researching the Glider Program for personal interest and in their professional duties.   

 

Inquiries from families are particularly poignant and I do my best to respond as soon as I can (if you have inquired and have not received a response, please try again.  

 

Email me at:  ww2gpwebsiteATyahooDOTcom.  An officer of the National WWII Glider Pilots Association has been outstanding in his prompt attention to inquiries I forward to him.  He and his association comrades have helped many families learn more about their now deceased fathers, uncles, cousins, etc. who participated in glider operations.  Please note that they are only able to help families of Glider Pilots.  They maintain records of Glider Pilots but none of the Glider Infantry or Airborne unit (paratroopers).  If your relative was a member of the Glider Infantry or a Paratroop unit, you should try to locate one of those veterans groups.

 

A heartwarming addition courtesy of our friends in The Netherlands:

New pages include:

New material on pages can be found on:

This began as simple one-page site and a labor of love in 2000 when my Father was about to attend his last Glider Pilot reunion.  We wanted to do something to honor his duty and his comrades to whom he felt a strong attachment.  Interest from students of the Glider Program who chanced upon the site has resulted in a tremendous response with photos, personal accounts, and contributions of historical information.  It will continue to grow as those contributions keep coming in.

 

Tom Brennan

 

 

Glider Pilot Wings

 

Welcome to a Tribute to the American Combat Glider Pilots of WWII. 

 

 

 

 

 

Glider Retrieval by a C-47 in flight with the glider parked on the ground.  From 0 to over 100 miles per hour in six seconds.  Used to retrieve gliders on covert missions in enemy territory, to evacuate wounded, and to retrieve gliders after assault missions.  See page on "The Snatch."

 

Stars and Stripes - Tuesday, May 8, 1945 - announcing German surrender - pdf file

(Won't download for some reason - working on it.)

 

 

 

This site originally established October 14, 2000.

 

 

Link to Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau for those who may wish to have reunions in Dayton, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

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