Here we honor 217 Glider Pilots Killed in Action during WWII about 2.97%
and 181 Glider Pilots who died in the line of duty while serving their country During World War II.

WE PRESERVE TROOP CARRIER/GLIDER PILOT FILES AND PHOTOS IN PERPETUITY.

At the Silent Wings Museum, in the library/archive room, there are file cabinets holding biographical files on all the glider pilots. The names on each of the biographical folders were added from the National WWII Glider Pilot Association's Digital Archives created by the men who flew the gliders as well as the names of those killed in action or died in the line of duty. In the Digital Archives are the names of 7,302 individuals who were trained as glider pilots and earned their wings and the MOS #1026 [Job Classification of glider pilot].

The WWII veteran glider pilots, with the help of the assdociation's Research Team, are making an effort to update and add to those files. You can be a part of preserving the Troop Carrier history. If you have documentation, photos or stories for those names listed on this site please contact us. The information you provide to our research team goes into the biographical file of the veteran’s folder at the Silent Wings Museum for Perpetuity as well as into the Digital Archives database. Any original photos you donate go into a cold storage facility for photo preservation. The reearch team would also like copies of those photo if possible from the families. Please help our veterans with this endevour by providing any information that you have regarding any of the names listed in our KIA or LOD lists.

A Sincere thank you from the association's Executive Council,

Contact: nww2gpcrt@gmail.com**

When contacting the team please add the Glider Pilots name in the Subject Heading  **With this email address you are able to send a message to all members of the research team, including the curator, of the Silent Wings Museum. Although you will not likely receive a reply from all of them, you will have the benefit of their receiving your email to initiate your request. You may also send a single email to our project manager, Gary Stripling with this address nww2gpcrt@gmail.com. .

Our goal is to help families discover their WWII Troop Carrier relative. We do this at no charge other than asking you to share information and photos you may have so that we may continue our goal of preserving Troop Carrier history and original material for the Silent Wings Museum. We look forward to helping you discover your WWII Troop Carrier relatives history

National WWII Glider Pilot Association Research Team's purpose is to provide and preserve Glider Pilot and Troop Carrier information in order to perpetuate the memory of those men, their service to country, and to keep alive the information of the relatively unknown glider program of WWII.