Glidermen of Neptune: The American D-Day Glider Attack

by Charles Masters

Book Overview

Although the word gliderman does not appear in the dictionary, a brave group of World War II soldiers known as glidermen flew into combat inside unarmed and unarmored canvas-covered gliders known as "flying coffins."

Charles J. Masters points out that because World War II was the first truly mechanized and armored global conflict, the role of the glidermen and their combat gliders was at best anachronistic. Fighter planes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080932007X
• ISBN13: 9780809320073
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.0"