These are people he would have enjoyed hosting for dinner. That’s how Scott McGaugh chooses his book subjects. The people in his new book, due out Tuesday, were glider pilots during World War II. They ...

World War II glider pilots were a special breed then, and they're a special breed now, as their ranks dwindle. Olaf Barnard is the last World War II glider pilot living in Las Vegas, according to the ...

They each flew one combat mission in a quiet, hulking glider, in the European theater of World War II. But memories the two aging veterans brought to New Orleans this week differ sharply. For George ...

BRIDGEPORT (AP) -- George Buckley didn't have any false bravado as he talked about flying his flimsy glider behind enemy lines, just hours before one of the bloodiest battles in World War II. "I was ...

With the German invasion of France that began in May 1940, the full might of the combined arms of the German military and its tank-centric Blitzkrieg strategy hit numerous Allied countries. One such ...