stackyFACTSEngines are loud, which makes sneaking up on enemies difficult. The solution was packing heavily armed men into flimsy, engineless wooden gliders, towing them behind massive bombers, and silently releasing them into the dark. It was essentially an aggressive, highly lethal form of synchronized falling.
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