Glider Attack On D-Day

They are known as America's first military stealth aircraft. Under cover of darkness, the Waco CG-4A combat glider carried U.S. troops and materiel into battle during World War II. William Horn and Leo Cordier, pilots who flew these unarmed and un-powered planes, landed behind enemy lines before the invasion troops arrived in Europe on D-Day. Their courageous stories are a little known chapter in the Allied march to victory during WWII. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Glider Attack On D-Day is an episode from Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories by Robert Kirk.

This episode is 62:25 long.

This episode was published on Oct 30, 2025.

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