Ten Luftwaffe DFS 230A gliders were used in the
famous Gran Sasso raid on 12 September 1943 to rescue Mussolini from the
hilltop hotel where he was imprisoned after the fall of his government. The
force of paratroopers and SS commandos led by Hauptsturmführer Otto
Skorzeny was able to grab il Duce with two Italians killed and 10
Germans wounded.
The glider was 11.24m long with a wingspan of 22m. The width
of the body was less than one meter so that the passengers sat in a single
file. It had a crew of a pilot and nine troopers. The glider was developed by Deutsche
Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - "German Research Institute for
Sailplane Flight") This model is shown in the livery of the Schleppgruppe
2.
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