The National World War II Glider Pilots Association will hold its 48th annual reunion Thursday through Saturday at the Silent Wings Museum. The museum, located at 6202 N. Intestate 27 in a former a… ...

Army & Navy: Glider Pickup. 2 minute read. TIME. August 10, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4. T he wind socks on Delaware’s Du Pont airport hung limp and damp. The sun was pale through the heat haze.

Otto F. Lyons Jr., whose father was a World War I pilot, remembers Lubbock was just a small college town in 1944 when the glider pilots were learning to land on a South Plains Army Airfield runway ...