Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II
massive aerial formations and paratroop drops as those for the Normandy invasion and Operation MARKET-GARDEN, and strategic efforts in the China-Burma-India theater. Airlift routes over the Himalayas demonstrated one of the war’s most effective uses of air transport. The Air Transport Command emerged as a remarkably success ful organization with thousands of aircraft and a global network of communications centers, weather forecasting offices, airfields, and maintenance depots, and air-age realities influenced a postwar generation of dedicated military air transports operating around the world.
Airborne Operations In World War II, European Theater
This monograph describes the planning and execution of airborne operations by the Army Air Forces in the European Theatre during World War II. Intende...
Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-day, June 6, 1944
Although the assault on Utah Beach ultimately became one of the most successful military operations of World War II, its outcome was anything but cert...
German Air Force Airlift Operations
German Air Force Airlift Operations, Generalmajor Fritz Morzik is One of Series of Historical Studies Written by, or Based on Information Supplied by...
Airhead Operations: Where AMC Delivers
Airhead operations have been an important feature of modern warfare since Gen Francisco Franco, in 1936, air-landed his Moroccan forces in southern Sp...
American Military Transport Aircraft Since 1925
Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II--beginning with the Cold War...