Glider pilots pose in front of a Horsa glider, December 11 1944. #ww2 #aviation #aircraft #pilot #military | Jets 'n' Props

At the Glider Collection Museum we spoke with Anne Gardner, daughter of Staff Sergeant William “Bill” Henry Wastell of the Glider Pilot Regiment. On 24 September 1944, he was wounded by a mortar at the Hartenstein Hotel in Oosterbeek during Operation Market Garden. He survived his time as a POW, and although he could no longer fly, he continued his military service. #ww2 #ww2history #wwii #worldwartwo #wwiihistory #gliderpilotregiment #battleofarnhem | Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours

In March 1942, Britain launched one of the most daring and desperate missions of World War II — a 1,180-mile glider tow across the Mediterranean to save the starving and bomb-shattered island of Malta. This is the true, fully documented story of Operation Beggar, the longest and most dangerous glider operation ever attempted during the war. Against impossible odds, RAF Albemarle bombers hauled massive Hamilcar gliders through hostile skies — dodging Luftwaffe patrols, violent storms, night fight