Much as the glider program has oftentimes been overlooked by popular culture since the end of the war, so too has the program been largely overlooked by many academic studies of the war. Only a handful of books have been devoted to the glider program and many of those books were memoirs written by the pilots themselves. When looking at the few books devoted entirely to the program, three historical questions come up when looking at the glider program. The first question is how important was the glider program with regards to winning the war? The second question is how smooth was the creation and implementation of the glider program? Finally, what was the glider pilot experience like during the war?
