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X Contents 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 Re-dawn glider missions Operation ELMIRA Over LZ “W”-and on it 7. EVALUATING Second Thoughts About Operation NEPTUNE / 11 1 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 I 185 The TO of the TCC The Operations <strong>Office</strong> The motor pool Communications I Intelligence 12. MANAGING How to Run a Squadron I 210 The Orderly Room Sick Call! Chow! Quartermaster Supply Contents xi 13. BREAKING OUT The Controversy Over Troop Carrier Freighting Potential I 226 Fighters or freighters? Giving Patton the gas 14. SUNNING Italy and the Assault on Southern France I 247 From Membury to Voltone Politics and strategy in Operation DRAGOON The missions “Champagne campaign”? 15. MARKET-GARDENING “<strong>Air</strong>borne Carpet” or “Hell’s Highway”? I 273 Three names “A bridge too far”? The first two missions Was there still a chance?
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Page 7 and 8: Thirty-eight veterans of troop carr
Page 9: Contents Preface / vii Maps 1 xiv 1
Page 13 and 14: Hell on the ground Assessing VARSIT
Page 15: A Troop Carrier Squadron's War From
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Page 53 and 54: Airborne Operations Before Our Time
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Making friends: Ed Smith (communica
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On the Road to Our War 47 The Briti
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On the Road to Our War 49 out of ga
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52 Traveling Crew chiefs would repo
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54 Traveling We used PX lighter flu
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56 Traveling rather than jostling f
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4. Getting With It Training and Tou
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Stand in the door! Paratroopers pra
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62 Getting With It We had a whole b
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Training and Tourism in the ETO 65
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Celebrating the opening of our offi
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To Normandy and Back 79 airborne ar
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To Normandy und Buck 81 toward the
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To Normandy and Back 03 As it turne
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To Normandy and Back 05 Certainly o
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To Normandy and Back 07 shot at thi
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Thirty minutes to go: Colonel Willi
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To Normandy and Back 91 headed out
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94 Assaulting ing right on the mark
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96 Assaulting in the static lines.
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6. Reinforcing Our Normandy Glider
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100 Reinforcing the 37 mm antitank
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102 Reinforcing We were only 500 fe
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The huge British Horsa, the glider
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106 Reinforcing even started to slo
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108 Reinforcing where we were heade
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I1 0 Reinforcing 2. Koskimaki, pp.
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1 12 Evaluating scared as they were
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11 4 Evaluating trooper missions al
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I1 6 Evaluating chute medics. These
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11 8 Evaluating but few of them kne
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120 Evaluating attack. A small part
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122 Evaluating being thrown down to
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124 Evaluating 10. 1 have checked t
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126 Flying lots could not help but
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128 Flying Our liaison officer with
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130 Flying a bevy of small single-e
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132 Flying the 82nd Commander told
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134 Flying Another source of frayed
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136 Flying the principles of naviga
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138 Flying chief, with my back agai
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140 Flying out of the radios than w
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142 Flying couldn’t believe I was
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144 Flying flying personnel handled
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146 Gliding You can find our Americ
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148 Gliding us over the landing zon
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150 Gliding grate. Some of them wer
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152 Gliding and make dead stick lan
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154 Gliding base, target practice,
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156 Gliding visions, since they fou
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158 Gliding loads came in too fast
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160 Gliding The Germans were sendin
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162 Gliding when referring to C-47
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164 Gliding paper and lit it. Talk
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166 Gliding 3. Col. Samuel T. Moore
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168 Engineering pulleys had been bl
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170 Engineering The idea was that w
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172 Engineering Parachute riggers,
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174 Engineering from higher echelon
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, 176 Engineering rons would be rea
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178 Engineering Room whenever they
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180 Engineering even had to haul ou
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182 Engineering Morale on the line
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104 Engineering seven. In times lik
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How to Run Combat Operutions 187 wa
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How to Run Combat Operations 189 ha
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How to Run Combat Operations 191 gu
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How to Run Combat Operations 193 pe
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How to Run Combat Operations 195 Wa
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How to Run Combat Operations 197 wa
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How to Run Combat Operations 199 Bo
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Communications characters. Front, l
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How to Run Combat Operations 203 se
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How to Run Combat Operations 205 Th
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How to Run Combat Operations 207 Ev
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How to Run Combat Operations 209 2.
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How to Run a Squadron 21 1 Long bef
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The Orderly Room bunch at TARFU Bou
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How to Run a Squadron 215 Anybody w
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How to Run u Squadron 217 fall camp
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Group Commander Adriel Williams vis
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How to Run a Squadron 221 you expec
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How to Run a Squadron 223 middle of
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How to Run a Squadron 225 would be
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Troop Carrier Freighting Potential
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An early medical evacuation mission
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230 Breaking Out the lack of gas. S
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240 Breaking Out flying until the B
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242 Breaking Out K-rations for brea
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244 Breaking Out made particularly
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246 Breaking Out 15. This is the co
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248 Sunning out, our part of the ai
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81st TCS planes in Italy training w
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252 Sunning Naples. It was easy to
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254 Sunning For the remainder of 19
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256 Sunning ing the 50th and 53rd T
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The Assuult on Southern France 259
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The Assault on Southern France 261
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One of the gliders towed by the 81s
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When in Rome: Pilots enjoying a bar
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15. MARKET-GARDENING ”Airborne Ca
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“Airborne Carpet” or “Hell’
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Our first briefing for the invasion
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Paratroopers and their equipment ne
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282 MARKET-GARDENING bridge over th
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284 MARKET-GARDENING it as “a par
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286 MARKET-GARDENING armor. Jumping
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288 MARKET-GARDENING over us to let
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290 MARKET-GARDENING I was seated o
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292 MARKET-GARDENING If any of us n
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294 MARKET-GARDENING pushed off the
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296 MARKET-GARDENING 17. As it happ
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298 Falling Short deteriorating wea
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300 Falling Short right there; and
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302 Falling Short of the airborne G
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304 Falling Short A minute or two a
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306 Falling Short to clouds and fog
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308 Falling Short MARKET-GARDEN fal
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31 0 Falling Short began, finally,
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312 Falling Shorl A few miles up th
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314 Falling Short major Allied thru
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316 Falling Short 5. Dank, pp. 170,
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17. Reassessing Glider Potential an
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Some Horsas had cordite explosives
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322 Reassessing Of course we knew t
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324 Reassessing empty (more than 8,
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326 Reassessing This happened in la
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328 Reassessing right on through th
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m rr 0
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332 Reassessing Before we left Engl
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334 Reassessing bie, and myself. On
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336 Reassessing Glider pilots were
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18. Re-Supplying The Battle of the
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340 Re-Supplying let go of any troo
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342 Re-Supplying still secret.) Art
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346 Re-Supplying Membury shortly af
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348 Re-Supplying On Christmas morni
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350 Re-Supplying weather turned ext
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352 Re-Supplying operator and a con
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354 Re-Supplying the dreary-looking
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356 Re-Supplying Our main airborne
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358 Re-Supplying 4. October 3, 5, 7
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360 Camping Out living area were la
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362 Camping Out living quarters wer
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364 Camping Out take a jeep into th
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366 Camping Out lineman before the
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368 Camping Out nel and equipment a
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370 Camping Out The first time I sa
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372 Camping Out American soldiers s
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374 Camping Out ran the risk of get
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20. Supporting Montgomery Preparati
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378 Supporting Montgomery through t
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380 Supporting Montgomery risk of u
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382 Supporting Montgomery American
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384 Supporting Montgomery Our plane
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386 Supporting Montgomery 3. Severa
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The Drop Across the Rhine 389 the r
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392 Storming Germany gliders got of
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394 Storming Germany Holes in tail,
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396 Storming Germany As we were com
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398 Storming Germany The most graph
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400 Storming Germany Mac and some o
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Our Group Commander, Adriel William
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404 Storming Germany I had the chan
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406 Storming Germany west bank of t
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408 Storming Germany USAFETO, “Or
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410 Cleaning Up One of us came with
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Med-evac: a medical technician and
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414 Cleaning Up were flying eastwar
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416 Cleaning Up It would have been
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Ambulances with wounded soldiers dr
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420 Cleaning Up nally Bennett yelle
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422 Cleaning Up after we did. Major
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424 Cleaning Up purpose were cracki
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426 Cleaning Up Air Forces had done
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420 Cleaning Up June, George Doerne
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430 Cleaning Up I was Personnel Equ
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432 Cleaning Up be GI, even watches
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434 Cleaning Up havoc Allied bomber
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436 Cleaning Up important decisions
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43% Cleaning Up “Oh,” says he,
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440 Thinking Back But this was only
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442 Thinking Back that for politica
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444 Thinking Back sight of hardship
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446 Thinking Back and participated
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44% Thinking Back he finished colle
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450 Thinking Back And, in this stud
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452 Thinking Back now looked rather
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Appendix 1 81 st Troop Carrier Squa
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Appendix 2 The Roster, February 194
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Rank Name “Advanced Echelon-Will
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Rank Name “Main Echelon-Will proc
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Appendix 2: The Roster 463 Serial R
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Rank Name “Main Echelon-Will proc
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Appendix 3 Time Line: Airborne Hist
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October 6, 1944 November 1944 Novem
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472 Glossary OD oss PCT PFAB PIR PO
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474 Sources Craven, Wesley Frank, a
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476 Sources . “History of HQ, FAA
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478 Index Alsdorf, Jolly, 76, 198 A
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480 Index Bornstein, Irving, Q 71,
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402 Index coding messages, 138, 261
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484 Index electricity installed at
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486 Index glider pilots: combat dut
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KP (kitchen police), 13, 54, 153, 1
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490 Index Monte Cassino, 254 Montgo
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492 Index POL (petrol, oil, lubrica
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494 Index seasickness, 46, 47 “se
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496 Index Troop Carrier Group (cont
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498 Index Williams, Adriel (continu
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