Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "Paddy's heartbreaking order to his men | SAS Rogue Heroes - BBC" video.

The Horsa glider floated better than the US Waco and many lives were saved by that fact. Sadly a huge number of glider troops did drown as did Glider Pilot Regiment troops too, it is detailed in a number of books on the history of the GP Regiment from conception right through ww2. One of the pioneers was Major Rock who on the day almost made a good landing having reached Sicily by great flying, sadly he crashed at the last moment and was killed, and the GPR lost a superb leader and pioneer. It is heartbreaking to read some of those books, especially as I learned to fly on gliders with the ATC and powered aircraft later, and i can imagine the skill and courage it took to fly those enormous heavily loaded "birds" compared to the small ones i flew. Then they had to fight on the ground as infantry. Paddy was totally correct if this actually happened and he made this speech.
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