While recovering from this virus from hell I was doing some reading and came across a reference in a 1952 Field Manual for the Airborne which listed the types of planes used for landing in small unimproved fields which the gliders land in - the C-153.
Interesting, let me check it out and see. There was a lot of conflicting information when I was researching this so I will check a couple sources as well and maybe we can get the definitive answer on this. Thanks for the comment!
Do you have any reference to gliders being used in the jungles of Panama to protect the Panama Canal? I came upon a reference of Major William H. Taylor Jr. being selected by Cochran to head up the gliders in the CBI because of this experience. I'm on the hunt and reaching out to other sources now to try and track this information down.
I don’t recall this and it sounds like one of a number of early schemes that got dropped or left behind like gliders for the Marines and Navy. I’ll poke around in my sources and see.
I will see if I can find it - if it is a new publication it should be no problem.Thank you for the recommendation. I need to move to where I am snowed in for a month to catch up with my reading list!
Finally found my copy of American Gliders of World War Two by Bill Norton and he lists the powered version as the C-123?
Interesting, let me check it out and see. There was a lot of conflicting information when I was researching this so I will check a couple sources as well and maybe we can get the definitive answer on this. Thanks for the comment!
I highly recommend Bill Norton’s book as comprehensive if maybe not definitive, you will be a better judge of that than I
It's on its way! Always looking for good reference books even though I have bookshelves of books on WWII and gliders.
It’s an excellent addition even among my six feet of gliders shelf!
Do you have any reference to gliders being used in the jungles of Panama to protect the Panama Canal? I came upon a reference of Major William H. Taylor Jr. being selected by Cochran to head up the gliders in the CBI because of this experience. I'm on the hunt and reaching out to other sources now to try and track this information down.
I don’t recall this and it sounds like one of a number of early schemes that got dropped or left behind like gliders for the Marines and Navy. I’ll poke around in my sources and see.
I will see if I can find it - if it is a new publication it should be no problem.Thank you for the recommendation. I need to move to where I am snowed in for a month to catch up with my reading list!