Sandy Quartermain

Since no one in my family fought in WWII, I asked my dad if he knew anyone who fought in the war. It turns out, someone who used to work with my dad, named Sandy Quartermain fought in the war. He was a British glider plane pilot on D-day. The point of gliders was to get into enemy territory without being heard, so they turned off their jets when they neared enemy territory and crash land. Many of these planes were unsuccessful in landing and destroyed. These men were very expensive to train, and successfully landing was very hard. Sandy was successful in crash landing his plane and delivering his troops, and since he could not take off again, he went on to fight on D-day with the invasion force.