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Author : Roger E. Bilstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Airlift, Military
ISBN : OCLC:55055152
Author : Roger E. Bilstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1410220141
As World War II unfolded in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, U.S. military planners realized the nation's airlift and airborne combat capability was underdeveloped and out of date. The U.S. Army Air Forces relied largely on civil airline equipment and personnel to launch the Air Transport Command's intercontinental routes to overseas combat zones. A separate Troop Carrier Command and newly formed airborne divisions hammered out doctrinal concepts and tactical requirements for paratroop engagements. Despite operational shortcomings, subsequent airborne assaults in North Africa and Italy generated a base of knowledge from which to plan such massive aerial formations and paratroop drops as those for the Normandy invasion and Operation MARKET-GARDEN, and strategic efforts in the China-Burma-India theater. Airlift routes over the Himalayas demonstrated one of the war's most effective uses of air transport. The Air Transport Command emerged as a remarkably successful organization with thousands of aircraft and a global network of communications centers, weather forecasting offices, airfields, and maintenance depots, and air-age realities influenced a postwar generation of dedicated military air transports operating around the world.
Author : U. S. Military,Department of Defense,U. S. Air Force (USAF),U. S. Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521100667
This military publication tells the story of airlift and airborne operations by the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. As World War II unfolded in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, U.S. military planners realized the nation's airlift and airborne combat capability was underdeveloped and out of date. The U.S. Army Air Forces relied largely on civil airline equipment and personnel to launch the Air Transport Command's intercontinental routes to overseas combat zones. A separate Troop Carrier Command and newly formed airborne divisions hammered out doctrinal concepts and tactical requirements for paratroop engagements. Despite operational shortcomings, subsequent airborne assaults in North Africa and Italy generated a base of knowledge from which to plan such massive aerial formations and paratroop drops as those for the Normandy invasion and Operation Market-Garden, and strategic efforts in the China-Burma-India theater. Airlift routes over the Himalayas demonstrated one of the war's most effective uses of air transport. The Air Transport Command emerged as a remarkably successful organization with thousands of aircraft and a global network of communications centers, weather forecasting offices, airfields, and maintenance depots, and air-age realities influenced a postwar generation of dedicated military air transports operating around the world. Early Airlift and Airborne Units * Pilots and Airplanes * DC-3/C-47 * C-46 * C-87 * C-54 and C-69 * Helicopters * Gliders * Airborne Operations in the Mediterranean * Special Missions * FRANTIC * CARPETBAGGER and the Balkans * The Assault on Europe * OVERLORD * MARKET-GARDEN * Bastogne and VARSITY * Flying the Hump * Other Far East Missions * Legacies * Suggested Reading Following the entry of the United States into World War I in the spring of 1917, the aviation units in the Signal Corps explored the possibilities of employing aircraft for military transport. Although the 1916 Pershing Expedition into Mexico occasionally had used airplanes for reconnaissance and to carry mail and dispatches, the equipment available during that operation proved unreliable. In 1918, the Signal Corps supplied airplanes and pilots to inaugurate the first U.S. airmail service, an operation expected to help train pilots and boost airplane production. This experiment did little for either goal, and the Post Office Department soon took complete control. Overseas, aircraft based in France sometimes carried a single officer or courier, or perhaps priority military dispatches, but the available single-engine, two-place airplanes permitted little else. An effort to assist a force of 500 U.S. soldiers surrounded by the Germans during the Argonne Forest campaign in October 1918 achieved very little. Remembered as the "Lost Battalion," the American unit recovered almost none of the supplies that U.S. airplanes dropped near its position. However, the beleaguered troops surmised the need to mark their location for better identification from the air, and the panels they laid out provided needed information to pinpoint their position and allow relief forces to fight through to them. The object lesson of aerial marking became standard procedure.
Author : John Cushman Warren
Publisher : M A/A H Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : IOWA:31858013831452
This monograph describes the planning and execution of airborne operations by the Army Air Forces in the European Theater during World War II. Intended to serve as a case history of large-scale airborne operations, it seeks to analyze and evaluate them as a basis for doctrine and for the benefit of future planners. Chapters are as follows: (1) The Airborne Invasion of Normandy - Plans and Preparations, including the COSSAC Phase, deployment and training, final preparations, and deception and diversion; (2) The Assault, including various paratroop and glider missions; (3) From Neptune to Market, which focuses on organizational changes, plans and campaigns during the Campaign in France, the planning of Operation Market, and preliminary support operations; (4) Market - The Airborne Invasion of Holland, which includes descriptions of operations in various sections of Holland; (5) Varsity - The Airborne Assault Across the Rhine, including planning, training, security measures, auxiliary air operations, and lift and initial operations of the British Airborne Division, American Paratroops, and American Glider Troops; and (6) Conclusions Regarding Large-Scale Airborne Operations.
Author : James Alvin Huston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015013515781
Beginning with a case study of the greatest airborne operation of the war, the 1944 invasion of Holland, Huston examines the inception, organization, training, equipment, strategies, Allied cooperation, and overall effectiveness of the airborne in the total war effort. Operations in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Southern France, the Pacific, and the Far East are discussed.
Author : Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787205710
Germany’s imaginative employment of transport aircraft in World War II produced as many innovations as Germany’s use of tanks. Indeed, like the tank, the transport aircraft was closely associated with the Blitzkrieg concept. This relationship was advantageous at the outset of the war, but it became dangerous as the war dragged on and German armies outran their surface supply lines in North Africa and Russia. Then ground commanders began to think of air transport as the means of supply. The history of this trend is one of the main themes of this study, which was first published in its English translation in 1961. Some of the questions embodied in this theme—How much air transport is enough? Under what conditions is an air-supply operation feasible? What are the prerequisites for a successful airlift to encircled ground forces? What are the advantages and limitations of the glider?—are as vital and controversial today as they were during World War II. Generalmajor a. D. Fritz Morzik, who began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the German Air Service in World War I and ended it as Armed Forces Chief of Air Transport in World War II, is especially well-qualified to write the present study. His long career, spanning two world wars, and his experience with both civilian and military transport aircraft testify to the breadth of his practical knowledge.
Author : Roger E. Bilstein
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Airlift, Military
ISBN : 016049673X
United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Details the history of the Air Transport Command.
Author : Roy M. Stanley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473843813
The development of air transport in the early 20th Century led military strategists to examine the concept of inserting light infantry at key points behind enemy lines by air landing and air drop.The Germans were first off-the-mark with assaults in Norway and at Eben Emael in 1940. Crete saw a larger scale attack but while ultimately victorious the cost of men and equipment involved deterred any further Axis operation.The Allies on the other hand developed the concept dramatically with the large scale operation HUSKY in Sicily. While only partially successful there was massive loss of life and aircraft airborne operations were a key, if relatively minor, element of Op OVERLORD The D-Day Invasion.The most famous airborne operation was the large scale but ill-fated MARKET GARDEN. Almost successful the Arnhem battle goes down as a heroic defeat. The culmination of WWII airborne operations was the multi-division Rhine Crossing VARSITY.Expert author and collector Roy Stanley traces the history of airborne landings in words and pictures.
Author : John C. Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:899225972
Author : Sam McGowan
Publisher : Author House
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468505641
In December, 1941 US Army pilots began hauling passengers and cargo around the Philippines after the Japanese attack on Clark Field, thus beginning one of the most important air force missions of World War II. As America greared up to fight the war, dozens of what came to be known as troop carrier squadrons were activated and equipped, usually with Douglas C-47 and C-53 version of the DC-8 transport. Beginning in New Guinea, US Army troop carrier crews became a crucial part of the effort to turn the tide of war. In Europe troop carrier squadrons supported Army airborne forces and provided logistical support for air force squadrons. During the Battle of the Bulge troop carrier crews kept the 101st Airborne Division supplied. After the war, troop carrier squadrons supplied the besieged city of Berlin. Troop carrier crews supported UN forces in Korea, then supported French efforts in Indochina where their successors would become crucial to US efforts in the 1960s and early 1970s. This is their story.
Author : John C. Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 183931060X
First published in 1956. Planning and execution of large-scale airborne operations by the Army Air Forces in the European theater. Please note this a reprint from the archives and while we have made extensive efforts to clean up text and photographs the quality sometimes reflects the age of the original document and the typefaces available. Photographs and maps are included but there may be inconsistencies in appearances. These are not cheap OCR editions and the book is checked for legibility throughout.
Author : James M. Fenelon
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501179389
“Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authority…A riveting read” (Donald L. Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of the Air) about World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany. On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany’s last line of defense and gutted Hitler’s war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later. Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory—the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history’s footnotes. In this viscerally exciting account, paratrooper-turned-historian James Fenelon “details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division’s role in Operation Varsity...inspired” (The Wall Street Journal). Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air, Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II’s most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.
Author : Hellmuth Reinhardt
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781576381830
Author : John Cushman Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:3860875
Author : John Cushman 1913- Warren
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022890395
This book provides a detailed history of airborne operations during World War II, focusing on the European theater of war. From the daring raid on Pegasus Bridge to the famous battle of Arnhem, John Warren Cushman offers an enthralling and authoritative account of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.