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World
War II Glider Missions Profiled in Silent Wings
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Operation Granite – The attack
planned by Hitler on Fort Eben Emael (German)
May 10, 1940
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Invasion of Crete by German 7th
Airborne which used 69 Gliders “Operation Merkur” (German)
May 20, 1941
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Invasion of Sicily
(British with American Glider Pilots)
July 9, 1943
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Burma “Operation Thursday”
(Allied – British/American/Chinese)
March 5, 1944
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Normandy “Operation Overlord”
(Allied)
June 6, 1944
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Southern France “Operation Dragoon”
(Allied)
August 15, 1944
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Holland “Operation Market Garden”
(Allied)
September 17, 1944
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Bastogne “Operation Repulse”
(American)
December 24, 1944
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Crossing the Rhine “Operation
Varsity” (Allied)
March 24, 1945
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