Gliding into battle.

[SonofaMP]

Coincidentaly , there was a story in today`s local paper ( Kalamazoo Gazette ) on a Detroit veteren who was a WWII glider pilot visiting the Air Zoo here in town that has a restored glider on display.

The whole story is here: http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/05/wwii_vet_remembers_the_memory.html

 

Jef Rietsma / Special to the Gazette

Revisiting an era: Hal Holden, a World War II veteran from the Detroit area, co-piloted a combat glider identical to the one on display behind him at the Air Zoo. Holden on Friday spent more than an hour examining the artifact, only the third he has seen in the past 65 years.

 

Homepage of the Air Zoo: http://www.airzoo.org/