Bucksnort101
2nd Lieutenant
This article was in the local Minneapolis paper yesterday. Found it a bit interesting and thought I'd share it with you.
Unique legacy of Minnesota's 'flying coffins'
Unique legacy of Minnesota's 'flying coffins'
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Check out the Silent Wings Museum website. Great site with lots of information.
Not quite true about pilots/ersatz infantry just 'wandering.'
From both official accounts and interviews I did with some surviving pilots for a magazine a couple of years ago, the pilots, after landing, were to gather at a designated rally point for transfer back to home base (eventually).
Often times, they helped out with guard duty around a HQ command post, with the wounded, etc. They were on their own until reaching such a rally point.
In one guy's case, he and his co stuck with the squad of infantry they flew in with until they could get out of the fight - couple of days in this case. His first mission was on 6 June 44 in a borrowed British Horsa glider instead of a CG-4A.