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