How Rochester trained the daring glider pilots of D-Day

How Rochester trained the daring glider pilots of D-Day

When most people think of Rochester, they usually don’t think of it as the home of daredevil pilots. But that’s just what the city became for much of 1942, when the U.S. military relocated dozens of trainees and brought in 40 small training aircraft to the city as a training hub for piloting the Waco CG-4A combat gliders--the so-called “flying coffins.” “Army To Open Air School Here” read the front page headline of the Post-Bulletin on May 21, 1…