Glory: You may find this of interest.
My brother-in-law was a private in the KOSBs, and the following is a short extract from his war time story.
"We went to Brize Norton for glider training, it was as much to give the glider pilots a chance to fly with live loads as for us to get the feel of flying, which I enjoyed very much.
After I had done nine flights I was offered the job of flying as tailend charlie in the Stirling.
The job was to tell the pilots over the intercom when the glider was flying high or low tow, which means above or beliow the plane, and also when he dropped the tow rope in a special field."
After that the army made him an offer he was not allowed to refuse.... a free one way trip to Arnhem in a glider in 1944.
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