American Military Gliders of World War II: Development, Training, Experimentation, and Tactics of all Aircraft Types

The American experience with military gliders during World War II remains a fascinating story of innovation under wartime conditions of a weapon with no historical antecedents.

The U.S. Army glider corps was formed in the tumultuous period of rapid buildup of American military might prior to the nation's December 1941 entry into World War II.

It then had to mature rapidly, under the persistent pressure of wartime conditions, to be ready for action when American airborne troops first deplo...