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Soldiers from the 325th Infantry Regiment in a Horsa glider in their way to France during D-Day. The Horsa glider, actually the Airspeed AS.51 Horsa, was a British troop-carrying glider used during WWII. At the end of the war over 3,600 units had been built by Airspeed Limited, and was named after Horsa, the legendary 5th-century conqueror of southern Britain. Military gliders’ objective was to carry infantry troops to a combat zone. These engineless aircraft were towed into the air and most of the way to their target by military transport planes. Once released from the tow craft near the front, they were to land on any convenient open terrain close to target, hopefully with as little damage to the cargo and crew as possible. Nevertheless, results were different to theory, with several shattered gliders hitting the floor and killing all the passengers.