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In WWII, were gliders pilots (chiefly used in Normandy by the Americans and Crete and Belgium by the Germans) supposed to fight as infantry with the troops they carried to the front or to not get involved in the fight and rejoin the bulk of the forces as soon as possible ?

by /u/aktor55 in /r/AskHistorians

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