The Ninth Air Force Service Command in the European Theatre of Operations: A Pictorial Review
- Item sets
- World War II Regimental Histories
- Title
- The Ninth Air Force Service Command in the European Theatre of Operations: A Pictorial Review
- Alternative Title
- 9th Air Force Service Command in the European Theatre of Operations: A Pictorial Review
- Creator
- Lasch, Margretta C.
- Heins, Eleanor M.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 9th. Service Command
- Publisher
- New York : Phillip Andrews Publishing Company, [1945]
- Date
- 1945
- Description
- Like all other commands, the IX Air Force Service Command is made up of people--people whose jobs began long before the invasion, endured right up to H-hour and beyond. There were glider pilots, engineers, clerks, mechanics, cooks, doctors, truck drivers; in fact, every conceivable job necessary for victory was filled by an expert who was willing to subordinate everything to the goal ahead. Take the transport pilots, for instance. Red-eyed, flying seemingly endless hours, they operated on a two-way schedule that carried everything from gasoline and guns and bombs to blood plasma and sulfa drugs into Normandy, then carried wounded men back to England on knock-down cots which made ambulances of the Douglas Skytrains. And they did this on schedules which sent ten planes across the Channel every hour. The achievements of the IX Air Force Service Command are many and varied-it is virtually impossible to enumerate all of them. Perhaps it would be better simply to say that it is the "good right arm" of the Ninth Air Force. And when "service" is wanted by the Ninth, it is the Service Command which provides it as quickly as possible.
- Contents
- Why this book? -- What is the IX AFSC? -- Brief review of the Command -- Scenic England -- Aircraft assembly -- Maintenance & repair -- Transport group -- 1st Intratransit Depot Group -- Tactics air power, mobility -- 461st Signal Heavy Construction Bn. -- Movement to France -- Scenic France -- Here and there -- Awards
- Subject
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 9th. Service Command--History
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories
- Format
- 96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 x 31 cm
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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