retired WWII glider pilot Lt. Col. Al Hulstrunk noted that "You would think you were in a popcorn machine — you would hear pop, pop, pop, and you would say, 'Oh, they are shooting at us.' ...

The widely reported successes of German glider troops in 1940-41 – Fort Ében-Émael, the Netherlands, Crete – led to both Britain and the US starting large-scale efforts to design, build, and operate ...

Paratroopers and gliders packed with men descended into fierce ... Getty Images More than 9,000 US soldiers and 8,000 British and Canadian soldiers "achieved Varsity's objective in three hours ...

The second document in the cache is a letter written and signed by then-GC&CS (GCHQ) director Sir Edward Travis to his staff, ...