Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1941 — Page 15

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GLIDER INVASION

OFFERS PROBLEM

At Best, It Could Could Be Only Auxiliary to the Main Assault, Major Says. By MAJ. ALL WILLIAMS

Times Aviation Editor Speculation on the use of troopcarrying gliders for the invasion of England is rampant Even Winston Churchill warned the British people about that possibility recently. Opinions differ widely in this matter of the Germans being able to land sizable troop forces in England from giant gliders In one sense it seems fantastic, but the parachute troop idea was just about as 1ar off the heaten

these days

track of war text- | books as it seemed |

possible to travel. |

The possibility |

of glider invasion Maj. Williams deserves serious best, any probable use of must be viewed as only an

desiged to upset British transportation and eommunication. The Germans have about 20 vears of glider and sailplane experience.

Would Be Inexpensive A glider big enough to calry 25 ta 50 soldiers can be built, readily

and can be towed by bombers. With |

| no motors, vast numbers of such

aircraft conceivably could be built | very cheaply. Gliders can be built to land ati * 15 to 20 miles an hour, and at less} against the wind. Thus it 1s con-| ceivable that any small bit of land might be a potential landing field One bomber, greatly powered as the modern type is, could easily tow at least two such gliders For safe landing at night in a foreign country, it would be necessary first to have complete photographic survevs of the terrain, and the glider and bomber pilots would need to be familiar with' the details of the country. Glider pilots would neces- | sarily need aid from some type of landing lights or flares for making the final approach to a selected spot. Such aids are available. A glider invasion above all things, would have to be made at night unless the defense air force had been cleared from the air. R. A. F. Would Discover Them

The great hitch, In my mind

against such an air invasion—say, a couple of thousand gliders—is that In assembling such a vast number, the preparations would certainly be discovered by Roval Air Force scouts, and would be easy picking for ground-strafing and light bombers { Then, too, if 25.000 German roops were planted in England they would be annihilated unless they were closely followed by a carefully timed auxiliary invasion attempt There are weird and creepy pPossibilities in such a Jules Verne type of invasion. A strong force of ground troops, landed at strategic points pehind defense lines, would be disconcerting, especially if combined with an all-out attack by air, land and sea forces against the coastline.

with 500 or

Big Defense Task

1f attempted, the glider invasion

presents a tremendous task for the defense—a task spread over an entire country instead of concentrated on holding definite lines of combat One certainty is that if the Germans make such an effort it will] have to be the most carefully timed | and co-ordinated military move ever attempted. Personally, I am inclined to doubt the expediency of

such an in eflors.

Sta te Deaths |

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Davy wi i R Mrs, Leone Dooley ille

ELKHART —~Lou R Propp, 53. Surife, Lena: daughter, Mrs. Allen ¥ NA s. Anna Blumb \ Florence nberg and Mrs. LREAR Hi nton v gi TO) 3 S vors Wife r, Mr s Joseph Kleinhart Viscovic 61 nd, son, Wayne, en Clava: igh, brothers i rank Sm th ters, Mrs. Rose

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