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Airborne Research Resources

 

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Airborne Books - general
*  in my book collection
Author
for sale at:
A Bridge too Far *
Holland
Cornelius Ryan
Simon & Schuster
A Time for Trumpets
 
Charles B. McDonald
Quill
Airborne *
 
Tom Clancy
Static Line
Airborne Album 1943 - 1945
 
John Andrews
Static Line
Airborne Assault; parachute forces in action 1940-1991
Bruce Quarrie
Military.com
Airborne - Combat History of US Airborne
E.M. Flannagen
Ballentine Books
Airborne Warfare
James M. Gavin
Battery Press
America's Finest *
 
Gary Howard
Stackpoole
America's Finest II
Gary Howard
www.paulmeekins.co.uk 
American Airborne Pathfinders of World War two
Jeff Moran
Military.com
American Warriors
Normandy
Michel de Trez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Ardennes
Belgian Ardennes
Charles Whiting
Static Line
Assault from the sky: Airborne infantry of WW-II
Tom McGowen
Twenty-first Century Books
At the point of no return
Normandy
Michel de Trez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Battle ground Normandy
Normandy
Carl Shilleto
Barnsley, England
Beyond Valor / WWII Ranger & Airborne
 
Patrick O'Donnell
Free Press / Static Line
Bitter Victory *
Sicily
Carlo D'Este
Harper Collins
Bloody clash at Sadzot
William Breuer
Zeus Publishers
Calculated Risk *
Italy
Mark Clark
George Harraps, London 1951
Captain Cool *
509th Prcht Inf Regt
William Breuer
Zeus Publishers
Champagne Campaign *
Southern France
Adleman/Walton
Little Brown Co
Citizen Soldiers *
 
Stephen Ambrose
Amazon
Concise history of US Army Airborne Forces *
Geoffrey T. Barker
Anglo-American
Concise history of US Army Airborne Army, Corps *
Geoffrey T. Barker
Anglo-American
D Day
Normandy
Stephen Ambrose
Amazon
D Day - As They Saw It
Normandy
Lord Carver
Amazon.com $ 10.78
D Day - The First 24 Hours
Normandy
Will Fowler
Amazon.com
Dawn of D-Day - These Men Were There
Normandy
David Howarth
Amazon.com $ 19.95
D-Day Companion
Normandy
The Penrose
Jane Amazon.com $ 11.98
Drop Zone Normandy
Normandy
Napier Crookenden
Amazon.com
Echoes of the Warriors  
George Jacobus
contact author
First Airborne TaskForce
Southern France
Michel de Trez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Forgotten Wings, Fist Airborne Task Force
509/551/517 Prcht Inf Regt
Michel de Trez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Fortitude: The D Day deception Campaign
Normandy
Roger Hesketh
Amazon.com / Overlook Press
Geronimo *
William Breuer
St Martin's Press
Glidermen of Neptune / D Day glider attack
Normandy
Charles Masters
Amazon.com / SIU Press
Home was never like this
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Doyle R. Yardley
Enterprises
La Nuit des Paras
Normandy
Jean Mabire
www.6juin1944.com/biblio/index
Les Jarins de la Memoire
Normandy
Daniel Biernaux
www.6juin1944.com/biblio/index
Longest Day
Normandy
Cornelius Ryan
any book store / Simon & Schuster
Night Drop / Airborne invasion of Normandy
Normandy
S.L.A. Marshal
Amazon.com / Battery press
On Killing
Dave Grossman
 
Market Garden: Nijmegen, Grave and Groesbeek
Holland
Tim Saunders
CIB Military History
Operation Dragoon, Allied invasion of Southern France
Southern France
William Breuer
Presido Press
Operation Market, then and now - 2 books in a case *
Holland
After the Battle England
Orange is the color of the day
Holland
Michel de Trez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Our Finest Day- D Day June 6, 1944
Normandy
Amazon.com
Out of the Blue (friendly fire) *
James A. Huston
Purdue
Overlord
Normandy
Max hastings
Amazon.com
Paratrooper
Francis Bradley
Stackpoole
Paratrooper *
 
Gerald Devlin
St Martins
Pathfinder- First In- Last Out / Viet Nam
Richard Burns
Amazon.com / Ballintine Books
September 1944 *
Holland
Korthuis Altes,Thuring, Magry,Voskuil
Fibula (Holland)
Sicily, Salerno, Anzio *
Italy
Samuel E. Morrison
Castle Books
Sicily, whose victory *
Sicily
Martin Blumenson
Silver Wings of Airborne
Nick Dramis
Dramco Publishing
Silver Wings and a Gold Star
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Robert D. Davis
Amazon.com
Six Armies in Normandy
John Keegan
Stand in the door *
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Charles Doyle/Terrell Stewart
Phillips Publications
Swords and Plowshares
Maxwell D. Taylor
Static Line
The first Airborne Battalion
Harris "Mitch" Mitchell
Amazon.com / Static Line
The greatest generation  *
Tom Brokaw
Random House / Amazon.com
The left corner of my heart
551st Prcht Inf Bn
Dan Morgan
Amazon.com
The Longest Day *
Normandy
Cornelius Ryan
Static Line
The operations of the 509th Prcht Inf Bn in the battle of Salerno
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Fred E. Perry
Amazon.com
The operations of the 509th Prcht Inf Bn in North Africa
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Lloyd G. Wilson
Amazon.com
They jumped at midnight *
509th Prcht Inf Regt
William Breuer
Zeus Publishers
Triple Nickles - Story of the 555
555th Prcht Inf Regt
Bradley Biggs
Static Line
United States Airborne Forces *
Barry Gregory
Gallery Books / Amazon.com
US Airborne Forces *
Leroy Thompson
Blanford
US Airborne Forces Europe
Brian T. Barker
US Paratrooper 1941- 45 *
Carl Smith
Osprey Publishing England
USAF Historical Study # 74 - Abn missions in MTO *
Mediterranean Theater
Dr John C. Warren
www.sunflower-univ-press.org
USAF Historical Study # 97 - Abn missions in ETO *
European Theater
Dr John C. Warren
www.sunflower-univ-press.org
Utah Beach and the US Airborne landings
 
Steven Zaloga
Osprey Publishing England
Utah Beach, amphibious landing and airborne operations *
Joseph Balkowski
Stackpoole Books
We jumped to fight *
509th Prcht Inf Regt
Ed Raff
Wings of War: Airborne Warfare 1918-1945
Peter Harclerode
Weidenfeld & Nicholson England
With the Black Devils
incl 82nd Airborne Division
Mark Nelson
Military.com
VCR / DVD
 
Geronimo, US Airborne in World War II
DVD 2 1/2 hrs
Military.com - $ 19.95
Dropzone Normandy (60 min B&W)
DVD  82nd and 101st Abn Div
www.USMilitaryVideos.com
Military.com - $ 21.95
82nd Airborne Division in World War Two
VCR
Military.com - $ 19.95
82nd Airborne History (20 min B&W)
VCR / DVD
www.USMilitaryVideos.com
$ 19.99
82nd Airborne Division Parachutists Training WW-II  (10 min B&W)
VCR / DVD
www.USMilitaryVideos.com
$ 19.99
82nd Airborne Troop Carrier maneuvers (incl C-47, gliders)  (15 min B&W)
VCR / DVD
www.USMilitaryVideos.com
$ 19.99
Airborne in Normandy
VCR 82nd, 101st and Troop Carrier
including Ft Benning
Military.com - $ 19.95
more interesting VCR / DVD
check out
www.USMilitaryVideos.com
11th Airborne Division
 
Author
for sale at:
11th Airborne Division
Turner Publications
511th Parachute Infantry Regiment History
515th Prcht Inf Regt
Turner Publications
Static Line
Angels at dawn, the Los Banos raid
Edward M. Flanagan Jr
Presidio Press - Static Line
Back to Corregidor, America retakes the Rock
Gerald M. Devlin
St Martins Press, NY, NY
Bends in the road
Margo Shiels
mshiels@boweninternet.com.au
Corregidor, the rock force assault
Edward M. Flanagan Jr
Deliverance at Los Banos
Anthony Arthur
St Martins Press, NY, NY
Forbidden family
Margaret Sams
University of Wisc Press, Madison Wisc
From my foxhole to Tokyo
Rev Bob Leroy
CPA Book Publ Boring, Oreg
Into the Rising Sun
Patrick O'Donnell
Free Press 2002
Looking back
Henry Burgess
Pict Hist Publ, Missoula MT
Memoirs of an Angel
Col Edward Lathi
self published
The Angels
 
Edward M. Flanagan Jr
Presidio Press - Static Line
The education of Private Urish
Earl Urish
U&U Publ, 2070 Veterans Road, Morton, Illinois 61550 - phone 309-266-6025
The Stainless Steel Kimono
Eliot Chaze
Simon & Schuster 1947
the Rakkasans, Combat History of
187th Airborne Infantry
E.M. Flanagan
see also POSTWAR
Three Winds of Death
503rd Prcht Inf Regt
Bennett Guthrie
Adams Press 1984
title not known
11th Airborne Division
Ryan T. Hurst
to come out in near future
title not known
503rd Prcht Inf Regt
Ryan T. Hurst
to come out in near future
13th Airborne Division
 
Author
for sale at:
13th Airborne Division
13th Airborne Division
Static Line
17th Airborne Division
 
Author
for sale at:
507th Parachute Inafntry Regiment: Normandy, Ardennes, Germany
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Dominique Francois
Editions Heimdal 2002
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment 1942-1945
12 page history
Military.com
17th Airborne Division
Bart Hagerman
Static Line / Turner Publications
A Paratrooper's panaramic View
464th Parachute FA Bn
Robert L. Wilson-Philip K. Wilson
www.authorhouse.com
Battle of the Bulge
incl 17th Airborne Division
Danny S. Parker
www.sogbooks.com
Battling Buzzards
517th RCT
Gerald Astor
Donald I Fine Publications
Chronicle 517th Regimental Combat Team
517th RCT
Clark Archer
Amazon.com
Dead man's ridge
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Huey C. McLean
Granddaddy was airborne
Bart Hagerman
Military.com
Jump Rosters Varisty *
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Brian Siddall
www.airborneinnormandy.com
Little Known Front
incl 17th Airborne Division
Mitchel Kaidy
Paratroopers Odyssey
517th RCT
Clark Archer
ISBN 0961601507
The Skymen
513th Prcht Inf Regt
Kirk D. Ross
Amazon.com
The Luftlandung
Johan Nitrowski
in German
Thunder from Heaven: story of the 17th Abn Div 1943-45
Don R. Pay
Static Line / Battery Press
War Stories: men of the 17th Airborne Division
Military.com
When is daddy coming home, an American family during WWII
Richard C. Haney
Stone and Stone
82nd Airborne Division
 
Author
for sale at:
18 months in E Company *
325th Glider Inf Regt
Frank Plebanek
self published - author
507th Parachute Inafntry Regiment: Normandy, Ardennes, Germany
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Dominique Francois
Editions Heimdal 2002
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Allen Langdon
www.6juin1944.com/biblio/index
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment - Red Devils (French-English)
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Dominique Francois
Barnes and Noble
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment: Normandy, Ardennes, Germany
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Dominique Francois
Editions Heimdal 2003
82nd Airborne Division *
 
Steven Mrozek
Turner Publishing
82nd Airborne Division - 60th Anniversary Edition *
 
Static Line 
Turner Publishing
82nd Airborne Division - History updated history of 82nd 
 
Static Line 
Turner Publishing
82nd Airborne Division in Normandy (history in period photographs)
 
Dominique Francois
Schiffer
82nd Airborne Division 1917-2005
 
Dominique Francois
Schiffer
82nd Airborne Division in colour photographs
 
Mike Verier
Europe Military # 9
Airborne *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bill Tucker
Airborne in Nottingham *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
David J. Pike
All American All The Way *
Phil Nordyke
www.allamerican82nd.com
All American, 82nd Airborne Division
 
John B. Wildman
 
All the Way to Berlin *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
James Megellas
Amazon/Ballantine
Als sterren van de hemel "Like stars from heaven" *
 
Norbert de Groot
in Dutch
America's Guard of Honor 1942 - 1992
 
An Ivy-Leaque paratroopers *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
Chester A. Garrison
Franklin Press
Another Bridge too far
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Gosset-vd Hoeven
Jamar-Sneiderman
Arnhem
incl 82nd and 101st Abn Div
A.D. Harvey
Military.com
Arnhem, the battle remembered
incl 82nd and 101st Abn Div
Robert Jackson
Military.com
Arnhem 1944
incl 82nd and 101st Abn Div
Military.com
At a point of no return
82nd and 101st Abn Div
Michel DeTrez
www.d-day-publishing.be
A paratrooper remembers
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Glen C. Drake
Badger Books ISBN 1-878569-92-9
A private's eye of WW-II *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Zig Boroughs
Clew Books
As ever, John *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Margaret McNally
Roberts Press
Barbed words of war (poems) *
504th Prcht Inf Regt (Sicily)
Tim Dyas
CT Press
Battle of the Bulge
incl 82nd Airborne Division
Danny S. Parker
www.sogbooks.com
Battle of the hedgerows: Bradley's 1st Army in Normandy
incl 82nd Abn Div
Military.com
Blood on our boots *
Sicily - 504th Prcht Inf Regt
Edward P. Haider
Trafford
Brothers in arms *
A Company 504th Prcht Inf
Frank van Lunteren
www.freewebs.com/1504/thebook.htm
Casablanca to VE Day *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
Darrell G. Harris
Dorrance Publ Co Inc
Circle and the Fields of Little America **
376th Prcht FA Bn
Jan Bos
circle82@wanadoo.nl
Circle and the Fields of Little America - a book on DVD **
mid 2007
Jan Bos
circle82@wanadoo.nl
Combat Jump *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Ed Ruggero
Static Line / Amazon $ 24.95
Combat Record of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment *
504th Prcht Inf Rget
William D. Mandle / David Whittier
Battery Press
Countdown to Cassino
incl 82nd Abn Div
Amazon.com
D-Day in Granada *
 
Descending from the Clouds *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Spencer/Gayle Wurst
Casemate $ 32.95
Devils in Baggy Pants *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
Ross S. Carter
Static Line / Amazon.com $ 16.35
Doc McIlvoy & his Parachuting medics
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Michel DeTrez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Down to Earth - 507 PIR in Normandy 6/6
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Martin K. Morgan
Schiffer
Drop Zone Sicily *
Sicily
William Breuer
Static Line/Amazon  
De weg naar Berlin
504th Prcht Inf Regt
James Megallas
www.uitgeverij-m.nl - in Dutch
En de weilanden bloesemden open *
in Dutch
H.M. Barten
De Kleijn Wijchen 1976
Every soldier has a story *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Walter H. Barrett
Whitline Ink
Fierce Individualist Dennis O'Loughlin E Co
505th Prcht Inf Regt
from his niece  
First Men In
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Ed Ruggero
Amazon.com/ June 2006
Four Stars of Valor *
 
Phil Nordyke
www.allamerican82nd.com
From Heaven to hell
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Benoit LeLandais
www.6juin1944.com/biblio/index
From Sky of Blue *
80th AA / AT Bn
James Emory Baugh
iUniverse Inc. N.Y. - www.iUniverse.com
Front Line
504th Prcht Inf Regt
Chaplain Delbert Kuehl
Glide to Glory *
325th Glider Inf Regt
Jerry Richlack
Graignes
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Gary N. Foy
Grandpa, a memoir *
82nd Abn Div+603 GR Co
Charles Butte
Printing Press
History of the 508th Parachute Infantry *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
William Lord II
Battery Press / Camp Blanding Museum Bookstore
I am the 82nd Airborne Division *
 
Robert P. Anzuoni
Schiffer
I am Fred (Normandy)
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Fred Peschel
self published
I Maintain The Right *
307th Abn Engr Bn
Peter Turnbull
Amazon.com
In their own words (Normandy)
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Chris Heisler
self published
Jump into Hell (Normandy)
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Robert Philips
self published
Jump: into the Valley of the shadow
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Dwayne Burns
www.jumpintothevalley.com
Jump Rosters Normandy *
507th Prcht Inf Regt
Brian Siddall
www.airborneinnormandy.com
Le Sang et la Neige les Ardennes *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
George D. Graves Jr
in French
Les paras US Ste Mere Eglise *
 
Philppe Jutras
in French
Let's Go *
325th Glider Inf Regt
Wayne Pierce
Amazon.com  
Let's Go *
325th Glider Inf Regt
Ronald A. Brassford
82nd Historical Society
Me or you
Milton Schlesener
www.authorhouse.com
Medals *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
George Leoleis
Carlton Press
Memoirs *
325th Glider Inf Regt
Russ Sunbury
contact author
Memoirs of the 456 Parachute Field Artillery Artillery *
456th Prcht FA Bn
Starlyn Jorgensen
unpublished
Memoirs of Arthur B. Kroos - Aide DeCamp to Gen. Ridgeway *
80 AA/AT Bn
Arthur B. Kroos
Sheboygan County Hist. Soc.
My World War Two *
376th Prcht FA Bn
Bruce L. Barton
No Better Place To Die *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bob Murphy
contact author - a505@juno.com
No Better Place To Die - second edition
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bob Murphy
contact author - a505@juno.com
Nuts, the battle of the Bulge
incl 82nd and 101st Abn Div
Donald M. Goldstein
Military.com
Nijmegen, Market Garden, US 82nd Airborne Division
Tim Saunders
www.bol.com
On Time - On Target *
456th Prcht FA Bn
John McKenzie
Amazon.com
On To Berlin *
 
James M. Gavin
Viking Press
Operations of the 2nd Bn 504th Prcht Inf Regt on the Anzio beachhead
504th Prcht Inf Regt
William J. Sweet
Amazon.com
Parachute Soldier *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bill Tucker
Int Abn Books
Parachutes sur Sainte-Mere-Eglise
Albert Pipet
www.6juin1944.com/biblio/index
Paratrooper - Life of General Jim Gavin *
 
Booth & Spencer
Amazon.com /  Simon/Schuster
Paratroopers - do or die *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Don Jakeway
Passing Through - The 82nd in Northern Ireland 1943-1944
 
John McCann / Gayle Wurst 
www.irisbook.com $ 29.95
Prop Blast *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
Steven Mrozek
82nd Historical Society
Pride of America *
 
Don Lassen/ Richard Schrader
Static Line
Put on your boots and parachute *
 
Deryk Wills
Ready *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Al Langdon
 
Ready 
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Al Langdon
reprint - coming soon - contact rjburns19@aol.com 
Rendevous at Rochelinval
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bill Tucker
Int Abn Books
Ridgeway's Paratroopers *
 
Clay Blair
Roll of Honor 82nd Airborne Division *
 
Hist Sect Liberation Museum 1944-1945
Saga of the All American *
 
Forrest "Buck" Dawson
Albert Love Enterprises 1946 / Static Line
Sainte Mere Eglise
 
Alexander Renaud
dropzone82nd@aol.com  
Sainte Mere Eglise / photos of D Day *
 
Michel DeTrez
www.d-day-publishing.be
Search for Members of the 505PIR WWII
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bob Gillett - James Meyers
self published records  
Slaughter over Sicily *
504/505th Prcht Inf Regt
Charles Whiting
Leo Cooper, London
Souvenir journal C-47 Club 1944-1984 *
 
C-47 Club
Stand Up & Hook Up *
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Forrest "Buck" Dawson
Static Line
Stanley Weinberg Letters  
Ann Weinberg
online Library of Congress  
Stanley Weinberg--WWII Remembrances
Ann Weinberg
self published memoir
Stragedy
307th Abn Engr Bn
Frank Miale
Trafford
Strike & Hold *
504th Prcht Inf Regt
T Moffatt Burriss
Amazon.com
The All American *
 
Leroy Thompson
David&Charles Publ. Co. Inc.
The All American: an illustrated history of the proud 82nd Abn Div
 
Robert P. Anzuoni
Amazon.com
The All Americans in World War Two
 
Phil Nordyke
Zenith Press 2006 - www.allamerican82nd.com
The battle of the Fiere Bridge
505th Prcht Inf Regt
Bob Murphy
The 508th Connection *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Zig Boroughs
Hiot
The Devils Tale *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Zig Boroughs
Static Line
The Devils have landed *
508th Prcht Inf Regt
Lewis Milkovics
Creative Printing, Florida
The Little He'pa and the big war *
307th Abn Engr Bn
Ted Wight
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