These are people he would have enjoyed hosting for dinner. That’s how Scott McGaugh chooses his book subjects. The people in his new book, due out Tuesday, were glider pilots during World War II. They ...

Suicide Jockeys: The Making of the WWII Combat Pilot by Monique Taylor sheds light on the overlooked story of U.S. glider ...

World War II glider pilots were a special breed then, and they're a special breed now, as their ranks dwindle. Olaf Barnard is the last World War II glider pilot living in Las Vegas, according to the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – They played a key role in storming the beaches at Normandy, but they don't always get the recognition in the history books. On Saturday, dozens of World War II glider pilots from ...

They each flew one combat mission in a quiet, hulking glider, in the European theater of World War II. But memories the two aging veterans brought to New Orleans this week differ sharply. For George ...

With the German invasion of France that began in May 1940, the full might of the combined arms of the German military and its tank-centric Blitzkrieg strategy hit numerous Allied countries. One such ...

ORANGE It didn’t start well. First, he was ordered to carry 3,500 pounds of landmines in his glider with no co-pilot. Why waste two lives, his colonel said. Then, a German machine-gun knocked down one ...

There is something about guys like Bob Swenson, who for two days back in World War II took part in a heroic mission. Bodies were on the ground, gunned down by the Germans. Swenson is now 90, retired ...

Imagine gliding earthward from 3,000 feet in the air in a wooden plane lacking an engine, Nazis and landmines on the ground to greet you, a thin veil of plywood protecting you from waves of enemy fire ...

BRIDGEPORT (AP) -- George Buckley didn't have any false bravado as he talked about flying his flimsy glider behind enemy lines, just hours before one of the bloodiest battles in World War II. "I was ...