Green Light!
Subtitle: A Troop Carrier Squadron's War From Normandy To The Rhine
Publisher: Center for Air Force History
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780812281439
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface vii; title: Maps xiv; title: 1. STARTING UP; title: How to Put a Squadron Together 1; title: Where we all came from; title: "What's your MOS?"; title: It was not a summer camp; title: Training crews; title: 2. GETTING BLOODED; title: Airborne Operations Before Our Time 25; title: Airborne combat begins; title: The Germans conquer Crete; title: Warming up; title: Troop carrier's baptism of fire: North Africa, Sicily, Italy; title: 3. TRAVELING; title: On the Road to Our War 43; title: The trip; title: "It's rough in the ETO!"; title: 4. GETTING WITH IT; title: Training and Tourism in the ETO 58; title: Training in England; title: Tourists; title: Getting to know them; title: 5. ASSAULTING; title: To Normandy and Back 78; title: D-Day: A day of revelations; title: Securing the base; title: "This is it!"; title: 6. REINFORCING; title: Our Normandy Glider Mission 98; title: Pre-dawn glider missions; title: Operation ELMIRA; title: Over LZ " W"— and on it; title: 7. EVALUATING; title: Second Thoughts About Operation NEPTUNE 111; title: NEPTUNE worked; title: Troop carrier and NEPTUNE; title: Judging the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron's role; title: The airborne troopers' view; title: Judging ourselves; title: 8. FLYING; title: Plane, Pilots, and Crew 125; title: The C-47; title: "We were all a little crazy"; title: Radio operators and crew chiefs; title: 9. GLIDING; title: Our "Glider Guiders" 145; title: Whose "return trip war"?; title: Doctrine and training; title: Glider pilots and their status; title: 10. ENGINEERING; title: What It Took to Keep 'Em Flying 167; title: Fly it or junk it?; title: Our Engineering TO; title: Party of the first part; title: On the glider line; title: Morale on the line; title: 11. COMMANDING; title: How to Run Combat Operations 185; title: The TO of the TCC; title: The Operations Office; title: The motor pool; title: Communications; title: Intelligence; title: 12. MANAGING; title: How to Run a Squadron 210; title: The Orderly Room; title: Sick Call!; title: Chow!; title: Quartermaster Supply; title: 13. BREAKING OUT; title: The Controversy Over Troop Carrier Freighting Potential 226; title: Fighters or freighters?; title: Giving Patton the gas; title: 14. SUNNING; title: Italy and the Assault on Southern France 247; title: From Membury to Voltone; title: Politics and strategy in Operation DRAGOON; title: The missions; title: "Champagne campaign"?; title: 15. MARKET-GARDENING; title: "Airborne Carpet" or "Hell's Highway"? 273; title: Three names; title: "A bridge too far"?; title: The first two missions; title: Was there still a chance?; title: 16. FALLING SHORT; title: The Tragic Outcome of the Holland Invasion 297; title: An aborted mission; title: MARKET-GARDEN falls to pieces; title: Did troop carrier fail the test?; title: 17. REASSESSING; title: Glider Potential and Performance 318; title: The Waco and the Horsa; title: Assessing the glider's role; title: Their critiques and our experiences; title: 18. RE-SUPPLYING; title: The Battle of the Bulge 338; title: A dreaded winter war; title: Hitler's Ardennes offensive; title: 19. CAMPING OUT; title: The French Connection 359; title: Setting up at Melun; title: At home in "Tent City"; title: Operations before the Rhine assault; title: The first time I saw Paris; title: 20. SUPPORTING MONTGOMERY; title: Preparations for the Last Assault 376; title: Summitry; title: Planning VARSITY; title: Preliminaries at Melun; title: 21. STORMING GERMANY; title: The Drop Across the Rhine 387; title: Our Rhine journey; title: Casualty lists; title: Hell on the ground; title: Assessing VARSITY; title: 22. CLEANING UP; title: The Final Missions and the Return Home 409; title: Repatriations; title: Adding up "points"; title: Last missions; title: Tag ends; title: Splitting up; title: 23. THINKING BACK; title: How It Looks to Us Now 439; title: Judging troop carrier; title: "A good outfit"; title: How our experiences changed our lives; title: Forgotten fields; title: Appendix 1.; title: 81st TROOP CARRIER SQUADRON CASUALTIES 455; title: Appendix 2.; title: THE ROSTER, FEBRUARY 1945 457; title: Appendix 3.; title: TIME LINE: AIRBORNE HISTORY AND THE 81st TCS 467; title: Glossary 471; title: Sources 473; title: Index 477; title: Maps; title: 1. Husky II Mission, July 11, 1943 36; title: 2. The 81st TCS's Routes to England 50; title: 3. Operation NEPTUNE, Routes of Troop Carrier Missions 86; title: 4. Operation NEPTUNE, Approach and Assault Areas of Airborne Missions 92; title: 5. Paratroop Drop of the 101st Airborne Division in Operation NEPTUNE 113; title: 6. Operation DRAGOON, Troop Carrier Route 257; title: 7. Operation MARKET, Initial Troop Carrier Missions, September 17, 1944 281; title: 8. Battle of the Bulge, December 10-27, 1944 344; title: 9. Operation VARSITY, Flight Routes, March 24, 1945 379; title: 10. Operation VARSITY, Assault Area 391