GLIDER PILOTS
RETURN TO BRITAIN Rugby, June 15. American glider pilots, who fought with lhe airbAine troops on the Cherbourg Peninsula, after landing them amid showers of German gunfire, are pouring back into England. Experts in the use of paratroopers' weapons, these pilots found their rigid ground training helped them to reach safety. During their three days in France they made numerous patrols with paratroops, wiping out machine-gun nests. Returning officers said they met no opposition in the air, but as they cut loose, at a low altitude for landing, their silent ships were splattered with all types of German shells. Sharpened posts had been planted in chosen landing fields to stop the airborne armada. After three days’ fighting many pilots gathered at divisional headquarters for I licit return Io Britain. They escorted German prisoners to the beaches, and then returned to England in a tank-landing ship. 8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 145, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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