bildan wrote:

It's interesting to compare the use of gliders by the Allies and
Luftwaffe. The Allied planners seemed to regard gliders as simply
cheap flying delivery trucks. The Luftwaffe seemed to see them as
stealth assault aircraft to carry small unit commandos on raids. The
German DFS-230 was much more of a sailplane than, for example, the
Waco CG-4. The DFS-230 carried only 8 lightly equipped commandos.

We all know the story of gliders used in the D Day landings. Less
well known is the story of Germany's use of gliders in the 1940 Battle
of Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium or the 1943 Gran Sasso Raid to rescue
Mussolini.

Some Uboats carried tow along auto giro gliders - very pretty to an
engineering eye.

Brian W