Open AccessTHE TRANSPORT GLIDER
Author(s) -
McGill Alexander
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/10-2-707
Subject(s) - glider , aeronautics , scale (ratio) , aerospace engineering , meteorology , engineering , environmental science , marine engineering , geography , cartography
During the Second World War airborne ground forces were employed for the first time in a major conflict, and on a scale never subsequently equalled. These soldiers and their equipment were delivered on or neartheir objectives in three ways, viz by parachute, by glider and by powered aircraft landing on captured airfields