Airborne Missions In The Mediterranean, 1942-1945
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Airborne Missions In The Mediterranean, 1942-1945
| Author: | John Cushman Warren |
| Category: | American Hegemony [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | [Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.] USAF Historical Division, Research Studies Institute, Air University |
| Release Date: | 01 Sep 1955 |
| Pages: | 145 |
| File Size: | 33.97 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 09 Nov 2009 |
| Rank: | 759,483 No 1 most popular |
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THIS PAGE DECLASSIFIED IAW E012958 Contents I BACKGROUND II THE NORTH AFRICAN MISSIONS Plans and Preparations for TORCH Extemporized Missions in the Race for Tunisia III THE SICILIAN MISSiONS 21 Planning for HUSKY 21 Training and tbc Glider Crisis 26 Final Preparations 28 The First HUSKY Mission 29 The Second HUSKY Mission 37 LADBROKE, The Glider Mission Against Syracuse 41 FUSTIAN, The Bid for Catania . 47 Lessons Learned in Sicily 54 IV OPERATIONS IN ITALY 56 Plans for Invasion 56 Training 58 Salerno and the Sele Missions 60 Plans and Minor Missions, September 1943-May 1945 69 V THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE 77 Birth. Death, and Resurrection of ANVIL 77 Planning for ANVIL-DRAGOON 80 Preparations for Airborne Missions 86 The Airborne Missions 93 VI CONCLUSION Ill GLOSSARY 114 FOOTNOTES 116 INDEX 133 Maps No, Page 1 . Take -Off Points and Destination of Paratroop Task Force 4 2. North Africa, Background for Airborne Missions 15 3. Southeast Sicily 20 4. Route of HUSKY 1 Mission 30 5. Route of MACKALL WHITE (HUSKY 2) 38 6. Route of LADBROKE Mission 43 7. Vicinity of Landing Zones of LADBROKE Mission 44 8. Route of FUSTIAN Mission 49 9. Vicinity of Drop and Landing Zones for FUSTIAN Mission 50 10. Proposed and Actual Missions in the Invasion of Italy 55 1 1 . Salerno Beachhead and Vicinity , 67 12. The Invasion Area, Operation DRAGOON 76 1 3. Troop Carrier Route in Operation DRAGOON 85 14. Area of Airborne Operations, Operation DRAGOON 94 Illustrations Figure Page Troop Carrier Serial in V of V's Formation Frontispiece 1. Airborne Troops Hitch Tow Rope to Waco Glider in North Africa 31 2. Paratroops aboard C-47 during Invasion of Sicily, 9 July 1943 32 3. Troops Loading Parapacks for Salerno Drops, September 1943 63 4. Final Briefing For First Salerno Drop, 13 September 1943 64 5. British Paratroops Jump over Megara during Occupation of Greece, September 1944 75 6. Paratroops Ready for Jump during Invasion of Southern France, 15 August 1944 97 7. Paratroops Jump near Le Muy in Southern France, 15 August 1944 98 8. Waco Gliders Cross French Coast during Invasion of Southern France, 15 August 1944 105 9. Waco Gliders Landing near Le Muy in Southern France, 15 August 1944 106 Digitized by www.dtic.mil .
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