[url "http://www.armyairforces.com/dbgroups.asp?Group=247"]Click here for a brief history of the 435th.[/url] Association contacts: Alexander Forbes (reunion) Phone: 727-785-6075 Reunion News: September 10 - 13, 2003, San Antonio Hilton – Airport. Web sites: [url "http://home.freeuk.com/rmarg/usaaf_station_477.htm"][#0000ff]http://home.freeuk.com/rmarg/usaaf_station_477.htm[/#0000ff][/url], Concise timeline of activities at Station 474, Welford Park, home to the 435th from January 1944 to February 1945. [url "http://www.usaaftroopcarrier.com/"][#0000ff]http://www.usaaftroopcarrier.com/[/#0000ff][/url], Point of sale for the book Into The Valley. Also includes historical overview, airborne chronology, and lengthy TCG ‘links’ page. [url "http://www.objectionable.org/440thtcg/troopcarrierreadingandresearchlist.shtml"][#0000ff]http://www.objectionable.org/440thtcg/troopcarrierreadingandresearchlist.shtml[/#0000ff][/url], USAAF Troop Carrier reading and research list. Related Books: Red Light Green Light Geronimo: A History of the 77th Troop Carrier Squadron, 435th Troop Carrier Group in World War II, Col. Phillip C. "Pappy" Rawlins. Self-published history, softbound, 176 pages, appendices, photos. World War II Memories and History: 76th Troop Carrier Squadron, 435th Group, 9th Air Force, Cecil Barnes. 1992, 210 pages. Pulse and Repulse: Troop Carrier & Airborne Teams in Europe During WWII, By H. Rex Shama. Eakin Publications, 1995. ETO history of Troop Carrier, 426 pages w/photos. 0890159912. Into The Valley: The Untold Story of USAAF Troop Carrier in World War II, From North Africa Through Europe, Col. Charles H. Young. PrintComm, Inc., 1995. Account by commander of the 439th TC Group. First-hand accounts of the airborne assault missions that spearheaded the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Southern France, Holland, the Rhine River crossing into Germany, and others. 616 pages, detailed maps and more than 600 photos. 0964797801. Green Light: A Troop Carrier Squadron’s War from Normandy to the Rhine, Martin Wolfe. University of Pennsylvania, 1989 (Reprint GPO, 1993). Relates the exploits of the 81st TCS, but the author claims it is ”the story of all troop carriers in the European theater of operations and not only that of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron.” An extremely readable account -- numerous passages quote the men who were there. Illustrated. Available on-line:[url "http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/green_light.pdf"][#0000a0]Green Light.[/#0000a0][/url]

The link to
Green Light : A Troop Carrier Squadron's War from Normandy to the Rhine
 
is here at the AFHSO
 
https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/wolfegreen.htm
 
Their site changed slightly.
 
Does anyone know how or where to get a copy of Phillip Rawlins book about the 77th TCS? 
 
Dennis Burke
Dublin
Ireland

Dennis Burke
Dublin
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