How to stop a Nazi Glider: 1940s Pamphlet

Your handy guide to stopping a Nazi glider as Britain prepared for invasion. Britain was awash in the summer of 1940 with fears and rumours of landings by paratroopers and glider-borne assault troops. The countryside was transformed by anti-glider defences.

For more on Operation Sealion, the Nazi invasion that never was, read the latest issue of Military History Matters magazine, on sale today.

British guide to Nazi Gliders

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