By last week a big glider program was emerging in the U.S. Just how big it was no one in the War Department would say. But a call had gone out for glider pilots; the first training schools were ready, others were on the way. Civil pilots, 18 to 35, ineligible for regular aviation-cadet training, were sought as glider students. Several large aircraft factories, a few smaller ones, had fat contracts to build big gliders for troop transports, small ones for training.
About Face. Early in 1941, Secretary Stimson said: "Flight training in...
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