[1] Gerard M. Devlin, Paratrooper!  (New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1979), p. 34.

[2] Ibid., p. 36.

[3] Ibid., p. 37.

[4] Ibid., p. 39.

[5] Lieutenant Colonel John T. Ellis, Jr., The Airborne Command and Center Study No. 25 (Washington, D.C.:  Historical Section, Headquarters Army Ground Forces, 1946), pp. 2-3.

[6] Ibid., pp. 42-46.

[7] Devlin, Paratrooper!, pp. 71 - 75.

[8] Ibid., p. 7.

[9] Ellis, Airborne Command, p. 5.

[10] United States, War Dept., Origins of the Army Ground Forces:  General Headquarters, U.S. Army 1940-1942  (Washington, D.C.:  Headquarters Army Ground Forces, 1 September 1945), pp. 54-55.

[11] Ibid., p. 53.

[12] Roger E. Bilstein, Airlift and Airborne Operations in World War II (Washington, D.C.:  Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998), pp. 10-11.

[13] Ronald G. Boston, "Doctrine by Default: The Historical Origins of Tactical Airlift," Air University Review, (May-June 1983), p. 43.

[14] Ellis, Airborne Command, p. 13.

[15] Christopher R. Gabel, The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1991), pp. 190-191.

[16] Ellis, Airborne Command, pp. 13-14.

[17] Ibid., p. 14.

[18] James A. Huston, Out of the Blue (West Lafayette, IN:  Purdue University Press, 1998),  p. 68.  The Troop Carrier Command was originally the Air Transport Command, and subsequently renamed the I Troop Carrier Command.  The Troop Carrier Command was the training agency of the Army Air Forces in airborne operations.  This unit was often confused with the later Air Transport Command, formed out of the Air Forces Ferrying Command and the Air Cargo Division of the Air Service Command.  The Air Transport Command had the primary mission of transporting personnel, supplies, and mail between theaters.

[19] Ibid.,  p. 68.

[20] United States, War Dept., Field Manual 100-20, Command and Employment of Air Power (Washington, D.C.:  War Department, 21 July 1943), p. 1.

[21] Ibid.

[22] Huston, Out of the Blue, pp. 52-53.

[23] Ellis, Airborne Command, pp. 19-20.

[24] United States, War Dept., Field Manual 31-30, Tactics and Techniques of Air-Borne Troops (Washington, D.C.:  War Department, 20 May 1942), pp. 31-32.

[25] Huston, Out of the Blue, p. 49.

[26] United States, War Dept., "Tactical Doctrine of Troop Carrier Aviation"  (Orlando, FL:  Army Air Forces Center, 4 September 1945), p. 5.

[27] Ibid., p. 51.

[28] United States, Dept. of the Army, USAF Airborne Operations, World War II and Korean War  (Carlisle Barracks, PA, March 1962), pp. 1-3.

[29] Ibid., pp. 3-4.

[30] Clay Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers (Garden City, NY:  The Dial Press, 1985), p. 83.

[31] Army Omar N. Bradley, A Soldier's Story  (New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1951), p. 126.

[32] United States, Dept. of the Army, USAF Airborne Operations, World War II and Korean War, p. 9.

[33] James M. Gavin, On to Berlin (New York:  Viking Press, 1978), pp. 18-22;  Samuel T. Moore, Tactical Employment in the U.S. Army of Transport Aircraft and Gliders in World War II  (Washington D.C.:  Army Air Forces, 19 June 1946), Ch. III, pp. 35-36.

[34] Omar N. Bradley and Clay Blair, A General's Life  (New York:  Simon and Shuster, 1983), pp. 179-180;  Bradley, A Soldier's Story, p. 126.  Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers, pp. 86-88.

[35] Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers, p. 88.

[36] United States, Dept. of the Army, Airborne Operations.  A German Appraisal  (Washington, D.C.:  Department of the Army, 5 October 1951), p. 25.

[37] Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers, p. 95;  Bradley, A Soldier's Story, p. 127;  Bradley and Blair, , A General's Life, p. 180.

[38] United States, Dept. of the Army, "A Historical Study of Some World War II Airborne Operations"  (Washington, D.C.:  Weapon System Evaluation Group, 20 March 1951), p. 16.

[39] Ibid., p. 17.

[40] Ibid., pp. 16-17.

[41] Bradley, A Soldier's Story, p. 126;  United States, Dept. of the Army, USAF Airborne Operations, World War II and Korean War, p. 11.

[42] Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers, pp. 100-102.  Moore, Tactical Employment in the U.S. Army of Transport Aircraft and Gliders in World War II, Ch. III, pp. 38-39.

[43] Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers, pp. 100-102.  Moore, Tactical Employment in the U.S. Army of Transport Aircraft and Gliders in World War II, Ch. III, p. 39.

[44] Huston, Out of the Blue, p. 273.

[45] Devlin, Paratrooper!, p. 245.

[46] Ellis, Airborne Command,  p. 47.

[47] Ibid.

[48] Huston, Out of the Blue, pp. 166-167.

[49] Blair, Ridgway's Paratroopers,  p. 107.

[50] Ibid., p. 106.

[51] Ibid., p. 107.

[52] 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. 1440.

[53] Devlin, Paratrooper!, p. 246.