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[edit] Single use only?

In the article it says (about military gliders): "These craft were used for a single flight only." I think that's not true, because I remember reading about allied parties that recovered gliders after Operation Market Garden. Can't find a reliable source at the moment though. Muijz 10:45, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

(moved from Talkpage of Glider) Muijz 14:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

On a forum the son of a C47 pilot writes his fathers plane was used to retrieve those gliders that were still airworthy enough for re-use, and that his father has a copy of his orders to retrieve gliders. See also this page where it says retrieving gliders by means of a technique called The Snatch was used extensively in the China-Burma-India Theater. Muijz 14:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I was in the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment in the late 90's, while looking thru old log books and other materials from their participation in WWII (325th Glider Infantry Regiment)there were records of how many gliders were recoverable after the landings during Operation Market Garden. Of 60 gliders used, 4 were still serviceable. 13 were damaged but repairable, the rest were unrecoverable. Doctrine of the time also stated that gliders were to be re-used. --82nd Paratrooper 20:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)