[url "http://www.armyairforces.com/dbgroups.asp?Group=250"]Click here for a brief history of the 438th.[/url] Association contacts: None known. Reunion News: No 2003 information. Web sites: [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: The 438th Troop Carrier Group in WWII, Austin J. Buchanan. 1990. 78 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 online:[url "http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/green_light.pdf"][#0000a0]Green Light.[/#0000a0][/url]

2006 Reunion
The 2006 Troop Carrier Reunion will be held October 1-5, 2006 at the Ramada Beach Plaza Resort, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. It will be hosted by the last surviving Squadron Commander, Bob Gates. For more information try the following: Mr. Robert W. Gates 254 Yacht Club Dr NE Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548-6452 Ph 850-243-7465 email bobgates@cox.net

this is just a note to the friends of my dad, allen g. goodwin.  i just wanted to let you know that dad passed away on October 1, 2006.  he is interned at Bushnell National Cemetary in Bushnell, Florida.