Glider infantry
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Glider infantry was a type of airborne infantry in which soldiers and their equipment were inserted into enemy-controlled territory via military glider. Initially developed in the late 1930s by German
DFS 230 flying over Italy, towed by a Ju 87 Stuka
The Airspeed Horsa
Waco CG-4A
Interior of a Horsa glider, looking to the rear from the cockpit
1st Airlanding Brigade
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The 1st Airlanding Brigade was an airborne infantry brigade of the British Army during the Second World War and the only glider infantry formation assigned to the 1st Airborne Division, serving alongs
1st Battalion, Border Regiment, at Arnhem
One of the 1st Airlanding Brigade's Willys MBs being loaded aboard a Waco glider
King George VI inspects men of the 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1st Airborne Division, in the North Midlands, 1944.