[url "http://www.armyairforces.com/dbgroups.asp?Group=249"]Click here for a brief history of the 437th.[/url]
Association contacts: None known.
Reunion News: No 2003 information.
Web sites:
[url "http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/"]
[#0000ff]http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/[/#0000ff][/url], Roger Day’s presentation of WWII Ramsbury includes much about Troop Carrier and Airborne activity.
[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.
[url "http://www.ww2gp.org/"]
[#0000ff]http://www.ww2gp.org/[/#0000ff][/url], National World War II Glider Pilots’ Association home page, with links to reunion (October 2003) information.
Related Books:
Action of the Tiger: The Saga of the 437th Troop Carrier Group, Frank Guild Jr. Battery Press, 1997. Reprint of the original 437th TCG history, 1950. 177 pages.
Ramsbury At War: A Wiltshire Village and its Airfield 1939-1945, Roger Day. 1999. Over 130 pages and 115 illustrations about the effects war had on a typical English village. Includes the friendly American invasion and 437th TCG information. 0953660109.
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 online:[url "http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/green_light.pdf"][#800080] [/#800080][#0000a0]
Green Light.[/#0000a0][/url]