It will be covered in Battle Surgeons, but there was some qualitative differences in paratroops and gliderborne troops. Battle exhaustion was more prevalent. You could be drafted into the glider troops and thus was not strictly volunteer. In England, at the division jump school, refusals were sent to the 325th.
I don’t know I’ve studied the personalities of regular units in enough depth to compare them to the 325th.
Indeed a great read. A couple of questions (that might be dealt with in previous posts. If so please point me in the right direction!):
What is the difference in terms of recruitment and training between the glider troops and the paratroopers?
Are they both different in “quality” (yes a nebulous word) from the regular leg units?
Glad you enjoyed it.
It will be covered in Battle Surgeons, but there was some qualitative differences in paratroops and gliderborne troops. Battle exhaustion was more prevalent. You could be drafted into the glider troops and thus was not strictly volunteer. In England, at the division jump school, refusals were sent to the 325th.
I don’t know I’ve studied the personalities of regular units in enough depth to compare them to the 325th.
Great read once again. God bless those boys who never made it home. The visuals described herein were just fascinating.