NWWIIGPC-Research

National WWII Glider Pilots Association Legacy Organization of veterans National WWII Glider Pilots Association.

SICILY BURMA NORMANDY SOUTHERN FRANCE HOLLAND BASTOGNE RHINE CROSSING LUZON

Institutions

Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA). Maxwell Air Force Base, original records.
Center of Military History (CMH). United States Army, Washington, D.C.
Air Mobility Command Museum.
The Glider Pilot Regiment Society.
**Leon B Spenser Research Team.
**National World War II Glider Pilot Association.
U.S. Army Center of Military History.
https://www.archives.gov/
https://www.navsource.org/archives/ .

Research Aids

64th Troop Carrier Group
Maurer Maurer, ed. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1961, reprint 1983.
Anderson, Barry. Army Air Force Stations [United Kingdom] USAF Historical Research Center, January, 1985.
Johnson, david C. U.S, Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO) D-Day to V_E Day. Research Division Historical research Center Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1988.

Articles

Bentley, Stewart W., Jr. The Touch of Greatness-Colonel William C. Bentley, Jr. USAAC/USAF; Aviation Pioneer. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Day, Charles. Early U.S. Army Glider Training ProgramNational WWII Glider pilot Association.
Day, Charles. Survey Board Summary. National WWII Glider pilot Association.
Levine, David. Remembering Camp Shanks. Hudson Valley Magazine, August 9, 2010.
Merz, George C., as told to Lewis E. Johnston. A Very Special Report from Operation Husky. Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover, 2017. Overman, Patricia. College Training Detachments or An American College Goes to War. World War II Quarterly, Winter 2014.
Overman, Patricia. Flying Pipeline. World War II Quarterly, Winter 2018.

Books

Ashcroft, Bruce. We Wanted Wings: A History of the Aviation Cadet Program. HQ AETC Office of History and Research, 2005. **Author members' books of the National WWII Glider Pilot Association
Bilstein, Robert E. Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998.
Book Committee, 12th Troop Carrier Squadron. Memoirs 12th Troop Carrier Squadron. 1945.
Breuer, William B. Drop Zone Sicily-Allied Airborne Strike July 1943. New York: Presidio Press, 1983.
Brinson, W. L. Three One Five Group: An Account of the Activities of the 315th Troop Carrier Group, USAAF 1942–45. Lakemont, Georgia: Copple House Books, 1984.
Buchanan, Austin J., “Buck,” and W. L. Collin. Into Fields of Fire-The Story of the 438th Troop Carrier Group in World War II. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris Corporation, 2004.
Callahan, Robert E. On Wings of Troop Carriers in World War II-Selected Accounts of Events Relating to the 50th Troop Carrier Squadron in Africa and Europe in World War II. Birmingham, Michigan: Burke Publishing Company, 1997.
Chatterton, Brigadier General George, D.S.O., O.B.E. The Wings of Pegasus The Story of the Glider Pilot Regiment. The Battery Press, Nashville, 1982.
CMH Pub 104-13. Airborne Operations-A German Appraisal. Facsimile edition, 1989.
Crookenden, Napier. Dropzone Normandy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976.
Den Brok, Hans. Battle of Burp Gun Corner. New Orleans, Louisiana: Walka Books, 2014.
Den Brok, Hans. Market Flights Volume 1-16, 314th Troop Carrier Group. Independently published, 2018.
Devlin, Gerald M. Silent Wings; The Story of the Glider Pilots of World War II. London: W.H. Allen, 1985.
Donovan, John J. 12th Troop Carrier Squadron History in Cartoons. Publisher not identified, 1945.
Dank, Milton. The Glider Gang An Eyewitness History of World War II Glider Pilot Combat. J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1977.
DZ Europe: The Story of the 440th Troop Carrier Group. The 440th Troop Carrier Group. 1946.
Farrer, Geoff, and David S. Staines. Glider Operations in the Invasion of Sicily July 1943. Malta Aviation Museum Foundation.
Freeman, Gregory A. The Forgotten 500-The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II. New York: NAL Caliber, the Penguin Group, 2007.
Frost, John. A Drop Too Many. London: Leo Cooper. Enlarged edition, 1994.
Gelb, Norman. Desperate Venture-The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992.
Gordon, Charles O., Sr. Soaring on Life’s Currents The Memoir of Charles O. Gordon. Sr. Bydand House Publishing, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2003.
Gregory, Barry. British Airborne Troops. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974.
Grim, Norman J. To Fly the Gentile Giants – The Training of U.S. WWII Glider Pilots. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Ingirsano, Michael N., Jr. Valor without Arms-A History of the 316th Troop Carrier Group 1942–1945. Hoosick Falls, New York: Merriam Press, 2009.
Johnson, John R., Jr. Un-Armed, Un-Armored and Un-Escorted. Hoosick Falls, New York: Merriam Press, 2014.
Johnston, Lewis E.The Troop Carrier D-Day Flights-A Fully Documented Review. Self-published, 2002.
Johnston, Lewis E. WW II Troop Carrier Oral Histories. Self-published, 2002.
Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington D.C. Wings at War Series, No. 4. Airborne Assault on Holland. Center for Air Force History Edition, 1992.
Headquarters, Twelfth Air Force. Troop Carrier Operations 1944.
Herder, Brian Lane.Operation Torch 1942. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2017.
Kraemer, Richard H. The Secret War in the Balkans A WWII Memoir. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Knickerbocker, W. D. Those Damned Glider Pilots. Static Line Books, 1993.
Leary, William M. Fueling the Fires of Resistance-AAF Special Operations in the Balkans during World War II. Air Force History and Museum Programs, 1995.
Lineberry, Cate. The Secret Rescue-An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Marshall, S. L. A. Night Drop-The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy. New York: Jove Books Edition, 1984.
Masters, Charles J. Glidermen of Neptune-The American D-Day Glider Attack. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995.
McGaugh, Scott. The Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin The Glider Pilots of World War II. Osprey Publishing, 2023.
Miley, Robert L. But Never a Soldier. Self-published, 1987.
Miller, Victor. Nothing Is Impossible-A Glider Pilot&srquo;s Story of Sicily, Arnhem, and the Rhine Crossing. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books, 2015.
Ministry of Information. By Air to Battle – The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions. London: His Majesties Stationery Office, 1945.
Mrazek, James E.Fighting Gliders of World War II. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.
Nordyke, Phil. All American All the Way-The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Zenith Press, 2005.
Peters, Mike.Glider Pilots in Sicil. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Pen and Sword Military, 2012.
Raff, Edson D. We Jumped to Fight. Airborne Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994. (Originally self-published, 1944.)
Saunders, Hilary St. George. The Red Beret--he Story of the Parachute Regiment at War 1940–1945, London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1950.
Shama, H. Rex. Pulse and Repulse: Troop Carrier and Airborne Teams in Europe during World War II. Fort Worth, Texas: Eakin Press, 1995.
Taylor, Monique. Suicide Jockeys: The Making of the WWII Combat Glider Pilot, Koehler Books, 2023.
The Army Air Forces Aide Society. The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces. New York: Pocket Books, 1944.
United States News. Five Senators Report on the War, 1943.
Van Rekan, Donald L. Airborne C-47A Squadron Pilots Paratroopers & Gliders 1942–1945. Donald L. Van Rekan, 1989.
Vlahos, Mark C. Leading the Way to Victory A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940 – 1945. Knox Press, 2022.
Vlahos, Mark C. “Men Will Come” A History of the 314th Troop Carrier Group 1942 – 1945. Merriam Press, 2019.
Yarborough, William Pelham. Bail Out Over North Africa-America’s First Combat Parachute Missions 1942. Williamstown, New Jersey: Phillips Publications, 2000.
Warren, John C. Airborne Missions in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. USAF Historical Studies: No. 74, Air University, 1955
Warren, John C. Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater. USAF Historical Studies: No. 97, Air University, 1956.
Wolfe, Martin. “Green” Light-Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Young, Charles H. Into the Valley: The Untold Story of USAAF Troop Carrier in World War II, from North Africa through Europe. Dallas: PrintComm, 1995.