Fighter Pilot or Glider Pilot?

What happens when there is not enough slots for your specialty in the war?

I was asked if I was familiar with Alan Shapiro, a glider pilot in WWII. I was not but did some research and watched his You Tube video interview. If you read the last post in Legislative History of the Glider Pilot Program series I posted, then you will recognize many similarities to those pilots who were in the War Training Service towards the latter part of the war to Alan Shapiro’s experience. In the former case they were transferring pilots in training to other types of aviation, washing them out or taking them out of flying all together. In the case of Alan Shapiro, he was trained as a fighter pilot, graduated and then subsequently, he and other graduates, were transferred to fly gliders.