[156] James
A. Huston, Out of the Blue (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue
University Press, 1998), pp. 51-52.
[157]
Gerard M.
Devlin, Paratrooper! (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1979), p. 246.
[158] E. M.
Flanagan, Jr., The Angels. A History of the 11th
Airborne Division (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1989), pp.
48-50.
[159] Clay
Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers (Garden City, NY: The Dial
Press, 1985), p. 172.
[160]
Huston,
Out of the Blue, pp. 51-52.
[161] Flanagan,
The Angels. A History of the 11th Airborne Division,
pp. 49-50.
[162] Huston,
Out of the Blue, pp. 261-263.
[163] Ibid., p.
263.
[164] United
States, War Department, Training Circular No. 113. Employment
of airborne and troop carrier forces (Washington, D.C.: War
Department, 9 October 1943), p. 2.
[165]
United
States, War Department, Training Circular No. 113, p. 2.
[166] Dwight
David Eisenhower, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower,
Eds. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Stephen E. Ambrose. 5 vols.
(Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1970), p. 1259.
[167]
United
States, War Department, Training Circular No. 113, pp. 2-4.
[168] Ibid.
[169] United
States, War Department, "A Historical Study of Some World War II
Airborne Operations" (Washington, D.C.: Weapon System Evaluation
Group, 20 March 1951), p. 132.
[170] Ibid., p.
2 and p. 7.
[171] Huston,
Out of the Blue, p. 54.
[172] Ibid., pp.
262-263.
[173]
Ibid., p.
52.
[174] United
States, War Department, "Joint Training of Airborne and Troop
Carrier Units" (Washington, D.C.: War Department Directive, 9
October 1943), p. 1.
[175] Ibid.
[176]
Ibid.
[177]
Huston,
Out of the Blue, pp. 262-263.
[178] Clay
Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers (Garden City, NY: The Dial
Press, 1985), p. 172.
[179] Ibid.
[180]
Matthew B.
Ridgway, "Summary of Principles Covering the Use of the Airborne
Division" (APO 469: Headquarters, 82nd Airborne
Division, 27 November 1943), p. 1.
[181]
United
States, War Department, "Tactical Doctrine of Troop Carrier
Aviation" (Orlando, FL: Army Air Forces Center, 4 September
1945), p. 5.
[182]
Ibid.
[183] Ibid., pp.
2-3. United States, War Department, War Department Field
Manual 1-30, Tactical Doctrine of Troop Carrier Aviation
(Washington, D.C.: War Department, 12 August 1947).
[184]
United
States, War Department, "Joint Training of Airborne and Troop
Carrier Units" (Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Army Ground
Forces, 2 November 1943), pp. 1-3.
[185] Ibid.
[186]
Flanagan,
The Angels. A History of the 11th Airborne Division,
pp. 51-52.
[187]
Ibid.
[188]
Ibid., p.
56.
[189] Ibid., pp.
57-58.
[190]
Devlin,
Paratrooper!, p. 248.
