Sweden had written Writing a fight song , `` Den glider in '' , which also was intended to be the official song of the championships .

Airborne troops arriving Arriving by parachute and glider numbered Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale an additional 14,000 men , with 2,500 casualties Catastrophe .

The mission 's objective was to airlift glider infantry of the 6th Airlanding Brigade and divisional troops to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength the British 6th Airborne Division on the left flank of the British invasion beaches .

A shortage of transport aircraft meant the division could not land in their traditional way by parachute and glider , and all the landing craft in the area were already allocated Dispersal to the other landings : Operation Avalanche at Salerno on the western coast , and Operation Baytown at Calabria .

Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse , Sicily , that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky , the Allied invasion of Sicily .

The first Allied mission using large numbers of the aircraft , the operation was carried out Military_operation from Tunisia by glider infantry of the British 1st Airlanding Brigade , commanded by Brigadier Philip Hicks , with a force of 136 Waco Hadrians and eight Airspeed Horsas .

The Normandy invasion began Process_start with overnight parachute and glider landings , massive air attacks and naval bombardments .

The following glider force also had problems ; weather conditions forced Causation the brigade 's anti-tank unit to turn Self_motion back for Italy and return Self_motion with the second wave later that day .