Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Army Air Transport Operations
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Army Combat Service Support Air Transport Operations
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Army Air Transport Operations, 1967
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Military Air Transportation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Transportation Services in Theaters of Operations
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Air Mobility
Author: Robert C. OwenPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597978523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial refueling aircraft capable of moving air and ground combat forces of all types to anywhere in the world and supporting them in continuous combat operations. Whether contemplating a bomber campaign or halting another surprise attack, American war planners have depended on transport and tanker aircraft.
To the Four Winds
Author: James M. ManganPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780938021988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Army Air Forces in World War II: Services around the world
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II
Author: U. S. MilitaryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781521100660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This military publication tells the story of airlift and airborne operations by the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. As World War II unfolded in Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, U.S. military planners realized the nation's airlift and airborne combat capability was underdeveloped and out of date. The U.S. Army Air Forces relied largely on civil airline equipment and personnel to launch the Air Transport Command's intercontinental routes to overseas combat zones. A separate Troop Carrier Command and newly formed airborne divisions hammered out doctrinal concepts and tactical requirements for paratroop engagements. Despite operational shortcomings, subsequent airborne assaults in North Africa and Italy generated a base of knowledge from which to plan such 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 successful 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. Early Airlift and Airborne Units * Pilots and Airplanes * DC-3/C-47 * C-46 * C-87 * C-54 and C-69 * Helicopters * Gliders * Airborne Operations in the Mediterranean * Special Missions * FRANTIC * CARPETBAGGER and the Balkans * The Assault on Europe * OVERLORD * MARKET-GARDEN * Bastogne and VARSITY * Flying the Hump * Other Far East Missions * Legacies * Suggested Reading Following the entry of the United States into World War I in the spring of 1917, the aviation units in the Signal Corps explored the possibilities of employing aircraft for military transport. Although the 1916 Pershing Expedition into Mexico occasionally had used airplanes for reconnaissance and to carry mail and dispatches, the equipment available during that operation proved unreliable. In 1918, the Signal Corps supplied airplanes and pilots to inaugurate the first U.S. airmail service, an operation expected to help train pilots and boost airplane production. This experiment did little for either goal, and the Post Office Department soon took complete control. Overseas, aircraft based in France sometimes carried a single officer or courier, or perhaps priority military dispatches, but the available single-engine, two-place airplanes permitted little else. An effort to assist a force of 500 U.S. soldiers surrounded by the Germans during the Argonne Forest campaign in October 1918 achieved very little. Remembered as the "Lost Battalion," the American unit recovered almost none of the supplies that U.S. airplanes dropped near its position. However, the beleaguered troops surmised the need to mark their location for better identification from the air, and the panels they laid out provided needed information to pinpoint their position and allow relief forces to fight through to them. The object lesson of aerial marking became standard procedure.
MATS
Author: Stanley M. UlanoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airlift, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Dramatic account of operations of the U.S. Military Transport Service in various parts of the world, including the Berlin Airlift, Lebanon, the Congo, Suez, etc.