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TRAINING: ACCOUNTS/STORIES, ACCIDENTS AND INDICDENTS

Training Stories/Articles

Trusting the CG-4A Glider: Down and Gone by Douglas Smith

Glider Pilot Training At LaurinBurg-Maxton Ended in 1945 in a Big Bang! by Glider Pilot Walt Raby

Accidents

Horsa Crash on 12 December 1944 1

1Related document: 2nd Lt. James Colimore report regarding a Horsa emergency landing during the same 17th Airborne Orientation
TRAINING

TACTICAL GLIDER TRAINING

COMBAT INFANTRY TRAINING
17th AIRBORNE at
OGBOURNE ST. GEORGE

GLIDER PARATROOP JUMP
FEASABILITY TESTING

ACCOUNTS (Stories/Accidents)

TRAINING SCHOOLS

Link Trainer Cartoon by Dale Oliver
Drawn by Dale Oliver for the National WWII Glider pilots Association Newsletter, Silent Wings.
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