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 World War II Glider Missions Profiled in Silent Wings


 


  • Operation Granite – The attack planned by Hitler on Fort Eben Emael (German)
    May 10, 1940
     

  • Invasion of Crete by German 7th Airborne which used 69 Gliders “Operation Merkur” (German)
    May 20, 1941
     

  • Invasion of Sicily (British with American Glider Pilots)
    July 9, 1943
     

  • Burma “Operation Thursday” (Allied – British/American/Chinese)
    March 5, 1944
     

  • Normandy “Operation Overlord” (Allied)
    June 6, 1944
     

  • Southern France “Operation Dragoon” (Allied)
    August 15, 1944
     

  • Holland “Operation Market Garden” (Allied)
    September 17, 1944
     

  • Bastogne “Operation Repulse” (American)
    December 24, 1944
     

  • Crossing the Rhine “Operation Varsity” (Allied)
    March 24, 1945


 

 


 

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