To Fly the Gentle Giants: The Training of U.S. WW II Glider Pilots - Softcover

Grim, J. Norman

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ISBN 10: 1438904835 ISBN 13: 9781438904832

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2009

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This is the story of the training of U.S. W W II glider pilots, mainly in the U. S., but also includes some training that took place in several foreign countries. Excitement, daring adventures, and horror were not exclusive experiences of WW II pilots flying combat missions in bombers, fighters, and gliders. Rest assured, the training of glider pilots was replete with stories of nearly equivalent adventures and misadventures. Some of those were comical, but often they were frightening, frustrating, painful, and/or perplexing. Sadly, some were deadly This book is a synthesis of diverse information, and based on over 190 sources. One hundred fifty-four of those are either oral or written histories from the men and sometimes the women involved. A large number of these are unique and previously unrecorded. Most of the information has been collected by the author between 1981 and 2004. Almost immediately it became a labor of love and I became, in spirit, a "family" member with these fine men and women.

Biografía del autor:

J. Norman Grim (Ph.D.) is a retired, emeritus, biology professor from Northern Arizona University, and decades long member of the National WW II Glider Pilots Association, and the Soaring Society of America. He and wife, Carole, reside in Flagstaff Arizona where he continues research in both biology and military history. He is also a retired Colonel (Army Reserves) after serving 32 years as such. He has flown sailplanes for 40 years; remembering fondly two of his sailplane instructors (in 1968) both of whom were WW II glider pilot instructors at Twenty nine Palms, California. He was still flying sport sailplanes in 2008.

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• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438904835
• ISBN 13: 9781438904832
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340