Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

A total of 102 glider pilots lost their lives and another 102 sustained injuries. Sam Gentry, head of operations and visitor engagement at Markshall, said: "It is a privilege to stand together and ...

Gliders and gliding had been central to German aviation since the nineteenth century. When the Third Reich weaponized every aspect of flight in the 1930s, the new Luftwaffe’s pilots trained on gliders ...

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Early in World War II, the Germans had had success using gliders ... The landing zone had no air traffic control; once over the zone, the glider pilot would release his craft at about 400 feet ...