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GERMAN GLIDERS

MACHINES USED IN CRETE. CONSTRUCTIONAL AND OTHER DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 2. Information reaching London relating to the gliders used to carry Nazi troops in the Crete campaign shows that these machines are made of tubular steel, with wooden wings. They have a span of about 80 feet, and a length of 50 feet. The wings have flaps on the upper surface, enabling a steeper gliding angle to be obtained. These gliders, which appear usually to be towed in pairs, though as many as six are said to have been observed, land at about 40 miles an hour and are capable of making a successful landing in quite a small spaed. The complement consists of ten to twelve men with six sub-machine guns and ammunition, one heavy machine-gun, one light machine-gun and two portable wireless sets. '

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5

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140

GERMAN GLIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5

GERMAN GLIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5

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