Into The Valley References

Following is the list of references from Into The Valley. Citations from the historical narratives about the Ardennes offensive and the 27 December 1944 glider mission that brought the heavy ammunition to the besieged 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne can be found in this list.

17th Airborne Division, a. Historical Report of Operation VARSITY. 2 June 1945. [Page numbers refer to those assigned by 17th Airborne Division Association in post-war reproductions.] 

________, b.  “Daily Casualty Rate By Unit.” 17th Airborne Division Association, 1992; updated December 1994. Update obtained via conversation with Mel Therrien, Historian, February 1995. 

________, c. Distinguished Unit Citation. War Department, 4 April 1947, General Orders No. 36, III. 

307th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. “Historical Narrative,” 16 October 1944. 

439th Troop Carrier Group, HQ, a. “Report of Group Engineering Section, December 1944.” 

________, b. “Fact Sheet, For 439th Troop Carrier Group From Date of Activation (1 June 1943) to 31 March 1946. 

________, c. Headquarters Diary, December 1944. 

________, d. Historical Report, December 1944. 

________, e. Historical Data, April 1945.  4 May 1945. 

________, f. “Strength Report, 23 May 1945.” 

________, g. Group History, June 1945. 

________, HQ, h. Group History, October 1945. 

440th Troop Carrier Group.  DZ Europe, The Story of the 440th Troop Carrier Group. 440th TCG, 1945. 

50th Troop Carrier Wing, HQ, a. The Invaders--The Story of the 50th Troop Carrier Wing. Spring, 1945. 

________, b. Group Commanders’ Meeting, 28 December 1944; Minutes.

________, c. REDBALL, Field Order No. 1, 12 February 1945. 

51st Troop Carrier Wing, HQ.  History, 51st Troop Carrier Wing, 1942-43

82nd Airborne Division. “Section II:  Divisional Commander’s Report.” Belgium, The Story of the Bulge.  82nd Airborne Division: 29 March 1945. 

91st Troop Carrier Squadron. History, March 1945. 

92d Troop Carrier Squadron. Historical Narrative, July 1944. 

93d Troop Carrier Squadron, a. TC Flash Report No. 2. 93d CO (S-2) to 439th CO, Attn. S-2. 27 December 1944. 

________, b. Interrogation Check Sheets--Glider Pilots (Bastogne). December 1944-February 1945. 

________, c. Flash Report No. 1, 27 December 1944. CO, 93d Sq. (S-2) to CO, 439th TC Group, Attn. S-2. 

________, d. Briefing and Interrogation of Glider Resupply Mission to Bastogne, 27 December 1944. To: CO, 93d TCS.  30 December 1944. 

________, e. “TC Flash Report No. 1 for 24 March 1945.” 

________, f. “Interrogation Check Sheet--Glider Pilots.” F/O Gilbert B. Capaldo. April 1945. 

________, g. “Overlay of Germany 1:25000, Defense Overprint Sheet No. 4305, 93 T.C.S. Operation VARSITY, Serial 14.” 

94th Troop Carrier Squadron, a. History, March 1945. 

________, b. Overlay: Central Europe, 1/100,000, Sheet Q1; G.S. No. 4410. 

Air Command and Staff School (AC&SS). Employment of Troop Carrier and Airborne Units. Maxwell AFB: Air University, 1948. 

Amouroux, Henri. “La page n’est pas encore tournée,”  in La grande histoire des Français après l’occupation, Volume 10.  Paris: Laffont, 1993. Excerpts translated by Milton Dank. 

Arnold-Forster, Mark. The World At War. New York: Signet, 1974. 

Ashworth, Chris. Action Stations, 5. Military Airfields of the South-West.  Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens, Ltd., 1983.   

Bauer, Eddy; Brig. Peter Young, Ed. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia.  18 vols. USA: H.S. Stuttman, 1978. 

Blair, Clay. Ridgway’s Paratroopers, The American Airborne in World War II. Garden City: Doubleday, 1985. 

Bradley, Omar N, and Clay Blair. A General’s Life, An Autobiography.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. 

Bradley, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York: Holt, 1951. 

Brereton, Lewis H. The Brereton Diaries, The War in the Air in the Pacific, Middle East and Europe, 3 October 1941-8 May 1945. New York: Morrow, 1946.

Breuer, William B., a. Geronimo!  American Paratroopers in World War II.  New York:  St. Martin’s, 1992. 

________, b. Operation Dragoon, The Allied Invasion of the South of France. Novato CA: Presidio, 1987. 

Brown, Frederic J. Chemical Warfare, A Study in Restraints. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1968. 

Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg. German situation maps, 27 December 1944. Numbers 2. and 3. Lage Frankreich, OKW-WfSt, Op (H) West. (These maps are  made available by the staff of Bundesarchiv, and are copied from the originals used by Adolf Hitler and staff in daily briefings throughout the Battle of the Bulge.) 

Carell (Schmidt), Paul. Invasion--They’re Coming! The German Account of the Allied Landings and the 80 Days’ Battle for France (translated from the German Sie Kommen! by E.Osers). New York: Bantam, 1984. 

China-Burma-India Pilots Association, China Airlift--The Hump, Vol. 2.  Dallas: Taylor, 1983.  

Craven, Wesley Frank & James Lea Cate, ed. The Army Air Forces In World War II, Vol. VI. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for the USAF Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, 1955. 

Dank, Milton, a. The Glider Gang, An Eyewitness History of World War II Glider Combat. Philadelphia:  Lippincott, 1977.

________, b. Turning Points of World War II:  D-Day. New York:  Watts, 1984. 

________, c. Questionnaires and letters preparatory to The Glider Gang.  14 May 1975. 

Devlin, Gerard M. Silent Wings. New York: St. Martin’s, 1985. 

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. 

Encyclopædia Brittannica, Vol. 23. London, Chicago: Benton, 1970. 

Ferrell, Robert H., ed. The Eisenhower Diaries. New York: W.W. Norton, 1981. 

First Allied Airborne Army (FAAA) HQ. “Memo, L.H. Brereton, CG, to IX TCC, HQ. Subject: Commendation.” 29 March 1945. 

Foy, David A. For You the War is Over:  American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.  New York: Stein & Day, 1984. 

Galvin, John R. Air Assault, The Development of Airmobile Warfare. New York:  Hawthorne, 1969. 

Gavin, B/G James M. Letter to B/G Paul L. Williams, IX TCC. 25 September 1944. 

Gavin, James M. On To Berlin, Battles Of An Airborne Commander, 1943-1946. New York: Viking, 1978. 

Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War, A Complete History. New York:  Holt, 1989. 

Glantz, Lt. Col. David M. Combat Studies Institute, Research Survey No. 4:  The Soviet Airborne Experience. Leavenworth:  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1984. 

Gordon, John W. Wings from Burma to the Himalayas. Memphis: Global.  1987. 

Gradidge, J.M.C., with J.M. Davis and J.A. Whittle. The Douglas DC-3 And Its Predecessors. Kent, England: Air-Britain, Ltd., 1984. 

Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Action Stations, 2. Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. Somerset, England:  Patrick Stephens, Ltd., 1991.

Horn, William K, a. Silent Wings, The Voice of the World War II Combat Glider Pilots. June 1991. 

________, b. Silent Wings. (Articles by Bill Horn and Rex Shama) December 1990. 

________, c. Silent Wings. (Articles by Bill Horn and Rex Shama) March 1991. 

I Troop Carrier Command, HQ. “Memorandum No. 359:  Information from Combat Units.” Stout Field: March-June 1943. 

Irwin, Theodore. “Escape to Freedom.” Family Weekly. March 25, 1961.   

IX Troop Carrier Command HQ, a. Operation Market, Air Invasion of Holland. Authorized for Reproduction, 2 Jan 45. 

________, b. Operations Repulse, Resupply by Air, Belgium, December 1944. IX Troop Carrier Command, January 1945. 

________, c. (Statistical Control Office.)  Operation Repulse (22nd to 29th December 1944).  16 January 1945. 

________, d. A-2 Section, Daily Journal. 14-31 December 1944. 

________, e. (Statistical Control Office.) “Operations Activity Report, 20 January 1945.” 

________, f. (Statistical Control Office.) Statistical Summary for Year 1944. 28 March 1945. 

________, g. Activities, Final Phase-European War; Tactical and Non-Tactical Operations. June 1945. 

________, h. “Monthly Statistical Summary, 1 March 1945 to 31 March 1945.” 17 April 1945. 

________, i. Memo to CO, 8th Historical Unit, U.S. Army:  “Combat Control Teams,” 5 April 1945. 

________, j. (Statistical Control Office.)  Statistical Summary of the Activities of the IX Troop Carrier Command (Period 4 June 1944-7 October 1944).  26 October 1944. 

________, k. “Consolidated Summary of Operations, NEPTUNE, DRAGOON, & MARKET.” 9 October 1944. 

________, l. Memo to 1st Lt. Richard K. Fort, Jr. Subject:  Troop Carrier Combat Control Teams. 23 January 1945. 

Jennys, David R. “Defenders Reluctantly Engaged.” World War II, November 1992: 26-32. 

Koskimaki, George E. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles. Sweetwater, TN:  101st Airborne Division Association, 1989. 

Lloyd, Alan. The Gliders. (U.S. edition.) Nashville, TN:  Battery, 1982. 

Lockhart, Vincent M. T-Patch To Victory, The 36th "Texas" Division, France-Germany-Austria. Canyon, Texas: Staked Plains, 1981. 

Lowden, John L. Silent Wings at War. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian.1992. 

Marshall, S.L.A. Night Drop, The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy. New York: Jove, 1984. 

Mauer, Mauer, a. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. U.S. Air Force:  Washington, D.C., 1961. 

________, b. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II. Washington, D.C: Simpson Historical Research Center, Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, 1982. 

McAuliff, Anthony C., a. Letter to Commanding General, Seventh Army.  17 February 1945. 

________, b. Letter to Commanding General, IX Troop Carrier Command.  25 January 1945. 

Merriam, Robert E. The Battle of the Bulge, Hitler’s Last Desperate Gamble to Win the War. (Abridged from Merriam, Robert E., Dark December, Ziff-Davis, 1947.) New York: Ballantine, 1991. 

Messenger, Charles. The Chronological Atlas of World War Two. New York: Macmillan, 1989. 

Miksche, F.O. Paratroops.  New York: Random House, 1943. 

Mrazek, James E.  Fighting Gliders of World War II. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1977. 

NAAFTCC (Provisional), Memo from B/Gen. Paul L. Williams to Gen. Harold H. Arnold, CG, USAAF. Subject: Equipment Requirements to Conduct Successful Glider Operations. 24 July 1943. 

Nichols, David. Ernie's War. New York: Random House, 1986. 

Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff (OACAS), Intelligence. The AAF in the Invasion of Southern France, An Interim Report. Washington D.C: HQ, AAF, 1945. 

Pallud, Jean Paul. Battle of the Bulge, Then and Now. London: Battle of Britain Prints International, Ltd: 1984. 

Pearcy, Arthur. Dakota at War. Shepperton, England: Ian Allan, 1982. 

Polmar, Norman & Thomas B. Allen. World War II, America at War, 1941-1945.  New York:  Random House, 1991. 

Rapport, Leonard, and Arthur Northwood, Jr. Rendezvous With Destiny, A History of the 101st Airborne Division. Ft. Campbell: 101st Airborne Division Association, Copyright 1948. Second edition (enlarged) available from 101st Airborne Assoc., P.O. Box 101, Ft. Campbell, KY 42223.

Renaud, Alexandre. Sainte Mère Église, First American Bridgehead in France. Saint-Lô: Éditions O. Pathé, 1964. 

Ridgway, Matthew B. Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1956. 

Riley, Robert. “MDs Recall Daring Glider Ride to Battle of Bulge,” American Medical News December 28, 1984, pages 3, 14-15. 

Rust, Kenn C, with George J. Letzter, James J. Grygier, & Richard Groh. The 9th Air Force in World War II--Fighters, Bombers, Reconnaissance, Troop Carriers--From the Desert to Central Germany. Fallbrook, CA: Aero, 1967. 

Ryan, Cornelius, a. The Longest Day. New York: Fawcett, 1960. 

________, b. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. 

Shama, H. Rex, a. Pulse and Repulse (galleys). To be published in 1994 in Austin, Texas by Eakin Press.

________, b. “Would Different Flight Routes into LZ Have Made a Difference in Losses?” Silent Wings (Horn), December 1990. William K. Horn, Editor-Publisher.  

Sheehan, Fred. Anzio, Epic of Bravery. Norman, OK: OU Press, 1964. 

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 

USAAF Glider Branch, Engineering Division, Materiel Command/All American Aviation Inc.  Information for Pilots and Crews on the Glider Pickup System/Handbook of Instructions Model 80X, Glider Pick-up System (Report No. SM-104). Wright Field, Dayton/Wilmington: 1943.  

USAAF HQ, War Department. “Overseas Assignment for the Investigation of Army Air Forces Glider Program in European Theater of Operations.” Report by Rolland F. Fetters, 1st Lt., Air Corps Glider Unit, Aircraft Section, Maintenance Division, ASCMA4G. 1943. 

USAAF, a. AAF Statistical Digest, Supplement No. 1: 1945. Office of Statistical Control. Washington, D.C: USAAF, 1946.

________, b. AAF Statistical Digest, World War II.  Second Printing.  Office of Statistical Control.  Washington, D.C:  USAAF, 1945. 

________, c. Progressive Training of Officers.  Orlando:  AAF School of Applied Tactics.  (From translation condensed from the German, reprinted from Command and General Staff Military Review, October 1941). 

Warren, Dr. John C., USAF Historical Studies: No. 74, Airborne Missions In The Mediterranean, 1942-1945. Maxwell AFB: USAF Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, U.S. Air Force, 1955.

________, USAF Historical Studies: No. 97, Airborne Operations In World War II, European Theater. Maxwell AFB: USAF Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University, U.S. Air Force, 1956. 

Weeks, John. The Airborne Soldier. Poole, England: Blandford. 1982.

Wolfe, Martin. Green Light! Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1989.

World War II Flight Nurses Association. The Story of Air Evacuation, 1942-1989. Dallas: Taylor, 1989. 

York, D.A. & J.P. Ancker. “The Life of the 680th.” 1945.

Young, Charles H., a. “Index of Important Events: Combat Missions.” Diary.  1944-1945.

________, b. Log Books, 1944-1945.

 

 

 

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