Gliders
 

Discuss whether or not they were used in the Airborne and whether or not they should be implemented in RnL.

EVENTUALLY!

What do you mean discuss whether they were used? There's no ambiguousness or doubting evidence of their use. They WERE used in Normandy, and that's simply a fact. Glider Regiments were attached to Airborne divisions, so why shouldn't they be implemented in RnL?

Lol

Hehehehe... ok glider infanty arent airborne. Airborne recieved hazard pay and gliders didnt recieve hazard pay until later. They are different groups. Gliders were used but they werent paratroopers.

i think they have glider infantry models in the 'media' section right? then that answers your question, ya they already are going to have glider infantry in RnL, as far as landing in the glider, i dont think thats going to happen you'll probly just spawn inside a crashed glider

where have you gotten that from?

I never said they were Paratroopers, but they WERE attached to Airborne units. And Subvert, they used to have Glider infantry models in the media section, but they seem to have mysteriously disappeared. Hmm...

oh my god, i nearly spat out of my coffee

Lol sub.

Maybe your thinking of the c47 (sp) not glider but i know glider and paratrooper(airborne) were 2 different units in the military becuase i saw an interveiw with one of the guys from 506th about when he joined.

Of course they were two differnt Units but they were still both part of the Airbourne Divisions

A) PIR-Parachute Infantry Regiments

and

B) GIR-Glider Infantry Regiments

In all logic they will be ingame, I can see no reason why they wouldnt.

My Source:http://www.ww2-airborne.us/18corps/...1_overview.html

So the glider's it appears worked hand in hand with many of the Airborne units. As well as being a part of the 82nd Airborne.

The glider player models will make a come back in the foreseeable future. ;)

We will not ignore the glider regiments contributions to the liberation of Normandy. I just wouldn't expect to experience alot of real-time glider landing.

But the only thing more thrilling than jumping out of a perfectly working plane is not being to jump out of a perfectly crashing plane :p

There was a rather large American glider drop in Normandy, mate.

I'd imagine glider landings would f*ck the server over, though.

lol, it'd be cool to see gliders land w/ the physics engine and all :D ... run into a tree or something

Personally as long as we get to Spawn From the air on at least one of the maps. I couldnt care less about gliders

Hey ben what were some of the american glider units that landed on dday and what towns do you think they might have taken...

The Pegasus Bridge Glider drop was Southeast of Sword Beach... that was british. Tell me more about the American gliders as i havent heard much about the American glider landings on dday. I assume they where Utah Beach landings.

here ya go found soem links fer yall

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/327/327.html

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/193/193.html

http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/194/194.html

http://groups.msn.com/101stAirborne...1sthistory.msnw

figured id do a search and c what i could find

"as part of the 82nd Infantry Divison" -Wait... wtf there was a 82nd airborne AND infantry??

um no your an idiot im not thinking of the c47 im thinking of the glider infantry renders that used to be there.

There was one not too far from Ste. Mere-Eglise, I beleive.
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They landed at Hiesville, four miles from Ste. Mere-Eglise. General Pratt, assistant divisional commander of the 101st, was killed here when the framework of his glider collapsed. Those were the 101st's gliders, the 82nd's gliders landed NW of Ste. Mere-Eglise, but they seriously f*cked up the landings. Gliders smashed into hedgerows and buildings, skidded into rivers, and plundged into marshes and causeways.

According to Captain Robert Piper, the adjutant of the 505th, he saw a glider almost take his head off, after that close call he said it "careened off the chimney of a house, dropping into the backyard, cartwheeled across the ground, and smashed into a thick stone wall. There was not even a moan from the wreckage."

Not a very pleasant night for the GIRs I'd say.

How did the British Glider do?

British gliders landed at Ranville, Merville, Benouville(specifically 5 of the 6 gliders that were to attack Pegasus and Horsa Bridges, the 6th glider overshot the landing zone and landed some 10-20 miles south).

Look up the Merville Battery, if ever there was a miracle on D-Day, this was surely it.

Watched a program on that once.

British at there Best :D

Ya, but they were also stupid enough to throw good soldiers into very dangerous wooden boxes that ended up killing alot good British Soldiers.

There was a show on the history channel called The Color of War, and it had a letter from a soldier in the GIR. This is a very loose recolection of what he said....

"When the glider hit the dirt it dazed me pretty well, but when it finally stopped moving I look to my left and saw that (Name) had his head cocked back and his mouth gaping open and then I noticed the blood all over the glider behind his head and the metal beam lodged into his skull."

The acually quote may be diffrent I'm not sure but all I know is that it involed a glider, bitish people, crashing, and a dead man who smacked his head on the metal beams.

Before the landing, some of the 101st paratrooper tried the glider, then they decided that using a parachute was a better way to fall.

I've been to Pegasus Bridge and Ste Mere Eglise, I have some pics somewhere...

Post up what you have. I can't have enough Eglise references. ;)

The first casualty of the day wasn't even by enemy fire. It was at Pegasus. The No. 2 glider pilot touched down and didn't want the No. 3 glider to ram it's nose up it's ass, so he tried to swerve. The glider ended up breaking in half and the front part tipped a bit into the pond that's in between the two bridges. One lad was unfortunate enough to drown in it.

And getting seriously injured or killed by the glider itself wasn't all that hard. Major Howard got knocked out when he got tossed into the top of the glider on touchdown. He hit the top so hard that the liner in his helmet broke and his head went straight into the top of his helmet. Only knocked him out for about 30 seconds, but he was still lucky.

Ok, I'm not too sure where they are, I think they are on disc somewhere, I've just gotta root them out, I'll try and get some up asap.

Ill get you some aerial recon photos from before the drop Mike. the place has changed some since then im sure... Lol Sub y am i an idiot, i was just asking if you were confused. I havent seen either in the media as i dont look there much.

"The first casualty of the day wasn't even by enemy fire."- Can you give me a reference to this becuase i thought the first casualty was on the charge across the bridge when an officer was shot. Maybe that was the first death by enemy fire.

Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose. Ambrose at his best imo.

That officer was Dan Brotheridge, and he was the first man to die by enemy fire. Sad thing was, he knew the first man going across that bridge wasn't coming back. I think the first man to realize this was Lt. Sandy Smith, who ran into a spot of bad luck when a good portion of his hand got blown off by a grenade.

The first allied soldier KIA on D-Day was Lt. Den Brothridge of British 6th Airborne

Glider Infantry
 

Is there going to be Glider Infantry player models when the game is released? I saw a while back they had models for them but just recently they disapeared from the website.

I really hope the glider infantry are in the game. It seems with Band of Brothers on everyones mind people are forgeting about the Infantry. And I think Glider Infantry is the best I'm going to get in this situation.

Im pretty sure glider infantry will eventually get in.

Try posting glider questions in the glider thread... youll get a better response.

maybe some1 coule merge the 2 together? plz