Question
Based on this excerpt, which two of these statements describe Bill Gladden's flight across the English Channel to Normandy?
The excerpt provided is:
"Bill Gladden, 95, who was in the 6th Airborne Armored Recce Regiment, was 20 years old when he took off from a Dorset airfield on D-day in a Hamilcar glider, which dwarfed the Halifax towing it. It was the first time tanks had been flown into a battlefield, and he was squashed alongside one tank and six motorbikes, weighing a total of 16 tons. As they crossed the Channel he climbed on top of the tank to look out of a porthole. But then, suddenly, the towrope dropped. "I felt the towrope go, because once it drops it's like you hit a brick wall. I couldn't move. I just hung on, and that's how I landed in Normandy, spread-eagled on top of a Tetrarch tank." "
The answer options are:
A Gladden was an experienced pilot, but he did not have the correct training to fly the glider.
B The glider was destroyed due to Gladden climbing out of the porthole over the Channel.
C Gladden piloted the glider once the towrope was dropped to land it in the battlefield.
D Gladden flew to Normandy on D-day on a glider that was towed by a much smaller plane.
E The glider was designed for heavy cargo and was the first to carry a tank into a battlefield.
The excerpt provided is:
"Bill Gladden, 95, who was in the 6th Airborne Armored Recce Regiment, was 20 years old when he took off from a Dorset airfield on D-day in a Hamilcar glider, which dwarfed the Halifax towing it. It was the first time tanks had been flown into a battlefield, and he was squashed alongside one tank and six motorbikes, weighing a total of 16 tons. As they crossed the Channel he climbed on top of the tank to look out of a porthole. But then, suddenly, the towrope dropped. "I felt the towrope go, because once it drops it's like you hit a brick wall. I couldn't move. I just hung on, and that's how I landed in Normandy, spread-eagled on top of a Tetrarch tank." "
The answer options are:
A Gladden was an experienced pilot, but he did not have the correct training to fly the glider.
B The glider was destroyed due to Gladden climbing out of the porthole over the Channel.
C Gladden piloted the glider once the towrope was dropped to land it in the battlefield.
D Gladden flew to Normandy on D-day on a glider that was towed by a much smaller plane.
E The glider was designed for heavy cargo and was the first to carry a tank into a battlefield.
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The two statements that describe Bill Gladden's flight across the English Channel to Normandy are:
D. Gladden flew to Normandy on D-day on a glider that was towed by a much smaller plane.
E. The glider was designed for heavy cargo and was the first to carry a tank into a battlefield.
D. Gladden flew to Normandy on D-day on a glider that was towed by a much smaller plane.
E. The glider was designed for heavy cargo and was the first to carry a tank into a battlefield.