| Show they advanced our operations by a week high above sicily groups of gliders dip earthward as silently as the air which flowed over their streamlined surfaces they swoop to a stop in some remote farm field men heavily armed quickly step from the gliders then dash for cover the only sound is the booming of nearby enemy and invading av force fire at the N 0 rear enemy lines are 14 2 1 thrown into confusion by 4 YIN a barrage from grenades and howitzers howit the glider borne troops are at work with its fire divided the enemy fails fail to stop the invading troops who take a Y beachhead and rapidly advance M inland V F the training of glider pilots begins in light planes like this after ei eight F weeks they progress to larger sailplanes sail planes the transport gliders 7 k 7 1 P B 4 M the sudden morale chatte shattering ng attacks of glider borne troops which dropped out of the night sky so disrupted enemy defenses in sicily that general sir bernard L mont gomery said they advanced our operations by a week above trainees file into a glider inset the pilot right loading a jeep into the glider 4 ft A fan fa t N D i a above although heavily loaded the glider leaves the ground before the bomber which tows it note towline tow line which can be released far from enemy ears left troops waiting to touch ground S r gg troops leap from the glider and charge through a protective smoke screen to take nearby enemy installation by surprise just tuch such attacks marked the largest la agest air borne troop operations operation i in history which began at about 10 p m the night of the sicilian invasion |
