German Gliders in WWII

Book Code:  SC0121

German Gliders in WWII

 

This rarely presented topic is shown in its uses as personnel, assault and equipment transport. Although taking the lead from early experiments with paratroops carried out by the Soviet Union, it was the German Luftwaffe who first employed paratroops and glider-borne troops in 1940. From the paradrops in Norway and Holland, and the glider landings on the Belgian forts at Eben Emael, to the climax of German airborne operations with the assault on Crete in May 1941.

Heinz Nowarra
Softcover 48 pp. b/w photographs, line drawings,

 

German Gliders in WWII