Interesting, there seemed to be more at play than going to visit his family for Skorzeny.
Fieseler Storch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9uBdU0ccE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZouzzfZcrg
Film jg's crew made of the operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVCZyEj5pM
The German glider mission I was familiar with, the attack of Fort Eben Emael : http://www.historynet.com/hitlers-se...rgest-fort.htm
sidebar of note at end of the article.
Many of us wore a glider patch at one point and know the legacy of Camp Mc.... 
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