Glider Pilot Lucier, early 1942

FROM POWER TO SILENT WINGS
Was it his intention to be a power pilot? That is likely. However, a letter to his mother a year later in Africa said that he had chronic high blood pressure and although he did not wear glasses in the military, he expected he would again wear them in civilian life. Recently, the youngest brother in the family, Tom Lucier, told me that Sylvan put a few planes down a bit roughly. If that was so, he was quick to begin sailplane training with civilian soaring trainers.
I will soon be posting places and dates where Sylvan trained and the pictures of planes and gliders he trained with.
Sylvan did not train with the combat gliders flown in Europe until later, perhaps at Laurenburg/Maxton Air Base. I am not certain, but based on when he went to Africa, (April 1943) he might have flown as co-pilot in Africa on supply missions. Others with the history of the 49th Squadron of the 313 Troop Carrier Group might be able to help me with that.