History of the Glider Pilot Regiment

The untold story of this tiny, little-known British Army regiment and the daring men who piloted engineless aircraft to WWII's major battlefields.

The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the regiment gained as much distinction as it has t...