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    25 July 2022 Garand Picture of the Day



    USAAF Combat Control Team #1, the first CCT, prepares for the airborne invasion of Germanyicon during Operation Varsity in March 1945, with a glider and jeep in the background




    Norman Wilmeth

    BIRTH 2 May 1918 Texas County, Oklahoma, USAicon
    DEATH 7 Jul 2014 (aged 96) Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA

    Col. Norman C. Wilmeth of Guymon, OK, US Army (Ret) passed away July 7, 2014, after a brief illness at Texas Tech University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He was 96 years old.

    Wilmeth was born May 2, 1918 south of Guymon, Oklahoma to Joseph Carroll Wilmeth and Lora Dixon Wilmeth. He graduated from Guymon High School and attended Panhandle State University before enlisting in the US Army in 1939. He served as an artillery officer before joining the US Army Air Corps Glider Pilot program. In WWII, he served with distinction as a Glider Pilot flying into Italyicon, France, Holland, and numerous other missions including the Normandy invasion. He was awarded the Medaille de la France Liberee in 1982 by the Frenchicon government and is a founding sponsor of the National Museum of the US Army.



    William Duane "Bud" Fasking, 95, of Benton, Kentucky, passed away at 12:28 am Monday, May 15, 2017 at Baptist Health in Paducah, Kentucky, with family at his side.
    graduated from Lexington High School and soon after enlisted in the US Army Air Corps. Mr. Fasking proudly served his country from 1940-1945 as a glider pilot in all three major actions of the 9th Air Force in Europe during World War II: D-Day, Market Garden and Crossing the Rhine. After leaving military service, he owned and operated a Standard Oil Station and Body Shop in Lexington.





    Leon Vernon Rounds Jr.

    BIRTH 26 Feb 1923 Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
    DEATH 10 Oct 2001 (aged 78) Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA

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    The guts it would take to climb in that glider along with a Jeep is unfathomable to me. No engine, no runways to land on, almost guaranteed something to go wrong not to mention the load of the Jeep shifting on impact. So many ways to die in those things but yet our brave men did it because that was what was needed and did it successfully in a lot of cases. Simply amazing
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    Quote Originally Posted by jond41403 View Post
    The guts it would take to climb in that glider along with a Jeep is unfathomable to me
    I hated even being in a Herc with a vehicle tied down, let alone a 113. The glider strong points can't be near as good.
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    Don't forget amateur pilots with scanty training.
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    Gliders were at least silent until they landed/hit the ground which could give an element of surprise. Britishicon gliders, of WW2, were built mostly of wood with the large Hamilcar glider capable of carrying a light tank.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Seijasicon View Post
    Don't forget amateur pilots with scanty training.
    Like drinking from a fire hose

    Although needing to meet numerous training objectives, the timetable provided by
    USAAF headquarters provided the instructors with only two weeks per class. Originally
    four weeks in length, higher headquarters’ desire for a rapid increase in the number of
    trained glider pilots resulted in the training time being compressed by a full two weeks.
    Instructors did not drop any curriculum from their training, but rather condensed their
    already planned lessons in the given timeframe.

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    I remember that when it came time to film A Bridge Too Far, the film company had several Horsa gliders built from the blueprints of the originals. They went to the Britishicon Civil Aviation Authority to get them certified so they could fly them and the CAA flatly refused, saying that the gliders were too dangerous to all concerned to be allowed to fly in peacetime. As a result, they had to tow them up and down the landing strips and shoot pictures that suggested they flew for the film.

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