GERMAN GLIDER TRAINING
18,000 TROOPS ANNUALLY
WASHINGTON, July 13. The War Department has revealed that Germany is training between 12,000 and .18,000 glider and parachute troops a year, excluding glider pilots. These figures do not cover airborne infantry, for which any strength required can be assigned. Intensive glider training is known to be taking place in Germany. A glider regiment consists of 14 companies, of which nine have rifles and throe heavier equipment. The 13th company carries 75-millimetre antitank guns, and the 14th company 37millimetre anti-tank guns. The ordinary glider for tactical use carries 10 men, and a larger glider 23 fully equipped soldiers. The latter, about which information is now available, is a Gotha highwing twin-boom monoplane glider. It has a wing-span of 79 feet, and a length of 52-2 feet. It has a wheeled under-carriage that can be dropped in flight. It then lands on three skids, of which the forward one is retractable.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1942, Page 2
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