Danny, some confirmation on chaps being posted to gliders late in the war comes from a Flight Commander on 10 Sqn, in India by late 1945 after converting to Dakotas. Writing home to his wife, he mentions having "a full complement of pilots now, over half of them are glider bods who haven't flown since Service school, and who were put onto gliding when they returned to England." (Up to that point, crews had kept their Halifax Air Bombers as 2nd pilots on the Dakota.)