Index
1st Allied Airborne Army, 149
1st Armored Division, 37, 111, 124, 166
1st Brigade, 8th Infantry Division, 165
1st Infantry Division, 158
2nd Infantry Division, 134, 139, 166
3rd Armored Division, 53
3rd Infantry Division, 47
4th Infantry Division, 43–45, 158, 161
5th Army, 37–38, 42, 47–48, 69
5th Cavalry Regiment, 142
6th Army, 115
8th Army, 70, 72–73, 114, 121, 153
8th Cavalry Regiment, 140
9th Armored Division, 51, 53–54
9th Infantry Division, 57
10th Air Transport Brigade, 134
10th Armored Division, 51, 53–54
11th Airborne Division, 41, 57, 63, 65, 152, 162, 184, 188; as 11th Air Assault Division, 133–40
11th Attack Helicopter Regiment, 177
12th Army Group, 54
12th Cavalry Regiment, 140
13th Airborne Division, 41, 135
16th Military Police Brigade, 183
17th Airborne Division, 50
28th Infantry Division, 18, 53
30th Infantry Division, 51, 53
37th Tank Battalion, 54
45th Infantry Division, 38–39, 47
46th Infantry Division, 171
80th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 59
82nd Airborne Division, xi, 1–2, 5, 17–18, 24, 26–27, 32, 56, 58–63, 79, 89, 94, 98, 100, 112, 114, 122, 124–25, 130, 133, 140, 148, 150–51, 158–59, 161, 163, 166–72, 176, 180–87; in Battle of the Bulge, 50–53; Gavin’s command of, 69, 72; in Italy, 48–49; in Normandy, 43–46; retention after World War II, 63; in Sicily, 38–42
82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, 185–86
91st Military Police Battalion, 183
101st Airborne Division, 5, 24, 58–60, 62–63, 69, 119–20, 133–34, 139–40, 145, 169, 173, 177, 181, 184, 186; in Battle of the Bulge, 50–55; in Normandy, 43–46; as part of STRAC, 158–63, 166, 170; reactivation of, 89–90, 112–14
173rd Airborne Brigade, 138, 165, 169, 176
187th Glider Infantry Regiment, 135–36, 140, 164; in Korea, 153–54
188th Glider Infantry Regiment, 63, 140
194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 60–61
307th Airborne Engineer Battalion, 39
325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 46, 51, 58–59
326th Glider Infantry Regiment, 58
327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 58–59, 159
401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 58
456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 39
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 15, 20, 22, 44, 50, 53, 163, 176
503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 14, 125, 163, 176
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 38–39, 48–49, 183, 186
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 26, 33–34, 37–41, 43, 45, 49, 58, 61, 86, 176
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 16, 21, 24, 31, 43, 46, 50, 160
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 20, 24, 45
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 45, 63
509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 37–38, 42, 49, 185
511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 16, 27, 140
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 16, 17
517th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 31, 32, 176
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 63
705th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 53
755th Field Artillery Battalion, 53
969th Field Artillery Battalion, 53
Abrams, Creighton, 10, 54, 129–30, 140, 179–80
Adams, Paul D., 126, 162, 165–66
Afghanistan, 146, 177–78, 180–83, 188
AH-1 Cobra, 119
air assault badge, 135, 136, 185
air cavalry combat brigade, 132, 146
Air Force Strike (AFSTRIKE), 165
air-mindedness, 4–5, 133–35, 139, 145, 167, 173, 175, 190
Airborne and Special Operations Museum, 186
Airborne Command, 14, 21, 24–25, 28, 36, 58
airborne mafia definition, 2–3
airborne uniform items, 7, 15, 18–21, 33; glider wings, 58; Parachutist (jump) wings, 58, 65, 90, 135–36
airborne warfare, 2, 93, 120, 134, 188; Gavin’s book, 69, 94
Airborne-Army Aviation Department, 125
airfield seizure, 45, 151–53, 163, 166
AirLand Battle, 177
airmobility, 121–23, 125, 129–31, 133, 137, 146; change of tactics after Ia Drang, 142–44; definition from CGSC, 127; French airmobility, 137–38; link to horse cavalry, 127; as state of mind, 134; as two interrelated concepts, 163
airmobility logistics, 131
armor, 4, 9–10, 14, 39, 42, 89, 98, 109, 115, 117, 121, 163, 178–79; and cavalry branch, 9, 120, 139; as opposed to the airborne, 74; as support at Bastogne, 54–55
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, 104, 109
Army Field Forces, 109–11, 123
Army General Classification Test (AGCT), 15
Army Strike (ARSTRIKE), 165
artillery, 14, 54, 56–57, 58, 99, 107, 110–12, 114–15, 119, 126, 131, 139, 141, 164, 180; 75mm pack howitzers, 56, 60–62; 105mm artillery; 155mm artillery, 49; aerial, 141, 143; atomic, 97, 101–2, 114; French, 38; horsemobile, 127; missiles as, 95–96, 104; need for heavy, 49, 53, 55, 60
Assistant Division Commanders, 18, 134; Keerans of the 82nd, 39; Pratt of the 101st, 46, 59
Association of the United States Army, 105
Atomic Field Army-1 (ATFA-1), 110–12
Avellino (see also Operation Giant III), 42, 49
Band of Brothers (miniseries), 50, 188
Basic Airborne Course (See also The Parachute School), 140
Bastogne, 50–55, 60, 98, 134, 149, 181
Battle Groups (Pentomic Concept), 73, 95–99, 104, 106, 109, 111–16, 121
Battle of the Bulge, 47, 49–55, 114
Berlin, airlift, 98, 151–52; blockade, 67; crisis (1961), 87, 116, 167
Bien Hoa Airfield, 169
Black Lives Matter protests, 183
Bloody Sunday, 190
Bradley, Omar, 18, 45, 54, 149; chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 70; reputation, 72; thoughts on future war, 150
Brereton, Lewis H., 149
Browning, F.A.M., 40
Bundeswehr, 116
C-54 Skymaster, 149
C-82 Packet, 149
C-119 Flying Boxcar, 153–54, 157
C-124 Globemaster II, 157, 162, 166
C-130 Hercules, 130–31, 150, 157, 160–63, 167, 174, 182, 188
C-133 Cargomaster, 169
C-141 Starlifter, 1
Camp Mackall, North Carolina, 36
Carter, Jimmy, 1; administration of, 172, 180
cavalry, 5, 9, 14, 65, 81, 119–21; air cavalry, 9, 121, 132, 139, 141, 145–46; horse cavalry, 127–29; sky cavalry, 70–71, 83, 121–28
Central Army Group, NATO, 116
CG-4A Waco Gliders, 59
CH-47 Chinook, 87, 128, 131, 134, 136, 178
CH-54 Skycrane, 134
Clarke, Bruce, 115
cohesion, 4, 20, 27–28, 29, 32–33
Collins, J. Lawton, 122
Columbus, Georgia, 20
Continental Army Command (CONARC), 83, 99, 111, 114–15, 116, 126, 128, 161
counterinsurgency, 177, airmobility and, 118, 130–11, 137–18, 145; Eisenhower administration and, 75–76; Kennedy administration and, 85, 88–89; limited war and, 66; post-Vietnam erasure, 178–19; rapid response forces and, 189
Cuban Missile Crisis, 85, 113, 165–16, 170
cultural tenets, 3–4, 21, 27, 37, 93, 114, 174–75
Czechoslovakia, 67
Davy Crockett rocket, 104, 106, 112
Decker, George H., 116
Depuy, William E., 179
dispersion, 4, 37, 45, 46–47, 69, 72, 97–98, 100, 110, 113–14, 116, 118, 123, 125; controlled dispersion, 93–96
Division Ready Force (Immediate Response Force), 2, 165–66, 172, 182; see also Western Hemisphere Reserve and Global Response Force
Donahue, Christopher, 1–2, 186
Duke of Wellington, 127
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 49, 54, 59, 63, 68, 71–72, 157; administration of, 5, 66–67, 108; and Little Rock, 159–61; and the New Look, 73–85, 91, 109; reputation of, 72; and strategic flexibility, 84, 179; rumors about his capture, 50; thoughts on airborne during World War II, 40, 45
Ellsberg, Daniel, 108
Exercise Air Assault II, 137
Exercise Banyan Tree, 163
Exercise Big Lift, 167
Exercise Caribou Creek, 163
Exercise Carte Blanche, 100
Exercise Desert Rock VI, 100
Exercise Desert Rock VII, 100
Exercise Sage Brush, 96, 111, 125–26
expeditionary mindset, 2–3, 21, 37, 47–55, 57, 91, 134, 149, 166, 173, 180, 182, 190
Explorer I, 102
Fayetteville, North Carolina, 20, 186
Field Manual 31–30, Tactics and Technique of Air-borne Troops, 16, 23, 25–26, 29, 31
Field Manual 57–35: Airmobile Operations, 128
First Airborne Task Force, 47, 62
flexibility, 3–4, 6–7, 21–37, 40, 49, 55, 66, 84, 91, 93, 96–100, 109–22, 134, 170, 174, 183
Flexible Response, 66–67, 77, 84–90, 95, 116, 118, 165
Foreign Legion, French, 6
Fort Benning, Georgia (Fort Moore), 11, 14–18, 34–35, 97, 123, 125, 127, 133–35, 139
Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Fort Liberty), 88–89, 124, 129–30, 134, 152, 155–56, 163, 167–70, 172, 185–86
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 112, 156, 159–61, 172, 186, 189
Fort Polk (Fort Johnson), 111
Fort Rucker, Alabama (Fort Novosel), 124, 126–27
Fort Stewart, Georgia, 130, 136
Forward Operating Base Cobra, 119
Frederick, Robert T., 62
Gavin, James M., 3, 5, 36, 58, 62, 66, 80–81, 91, 117–18, 129, 135, 136, 157, 175, 178, 179, 185, 190; and aerial delivered artillery, 57; and aerial resupply, 59, 98; on air as the decisive domain, 147–48, 173; airborne attitudes, 20, 23; on atomic weapons, 93–96; on atomic doctrine and organization, 109–10, 113–15; Battle of the Bulge, 50–53; in Berlin, 63; commanding in Sicily, 37–41; Coordination Group, 82; developing doctrine, 12, 25; on futility of airborne operations, 188; on individualism, 29; on intervention at Dien Bien Phu, 77; missiles, 102–8; and mobility differential, 120–23, 130; Peace Corps idea, 89; postwar assignments, 69–73, 81; on Sputnik, 102; relationship with Kennedy, 84–87; resistance to the New Look, 81–84; and Salerno, 48–49; Sky Cavalry, 121–28, 132, 141, 144; studying German airborne operations, 12; thoughts on Operation Varsity, 61; thoughts on Ridgway as chief of staff, 78; Victory Parade and integration, 63
glider operations, 12, 23, 61–63, 120, 155; frustration with, 58; organization of glider regiments, 22, 58; pilots for, 58, 61; use as casualty evacuation, 61; use in Market Garden, 60; use in Normandy, 59–60; use in Varsity, 60–61
Global Response Force, 182
Golden Brigade, 169
H-37 Mojave, 131
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 140
Honest John rocket, 104, 106, 112
Horsa Gliders, 59
Howze, Hamilton, 5, 65–66, 108, 139, 173, 177; as commander of the 82nd, 158–59; as commander of XVIII Airborne Corps, 166, 170; as director of army aviation, 124–26; Howze Board, 128–33, 146; and special warfare board, 88
Janissaries, Ottoman 19
Johnson, Howard, 11
Johnson, Louis A., 70
Johnson, Lyndon B., 139–40, 167, 171; administration of, 66
Joint Airborne Troop Board, 62, 155
Juno-1 rocket, 102
Kennedy, John F., containment and, 66; civ-mil relations during administration, 5; and flexible response, 77, 84–91, 118, 179; and ROAD approval, 116
Kesselring, Albert, 48
Key West Agreement, 101–2, 127
King Jr., Martin Luther, 172
Kinnard, Harry W.O., 54–55, 120, 129, 134–42
Knollwood Maneuvers, 41
Korean War, 66–68, 70, 72, 74–75, 80, 100, 120–21, 128, 152, 154
Kurilla, Erik, 183
leadership, 7–8, 21, 26–32, 34, 47, 51, 55, 66, 69, 71–72, 114, 174
Little Groups of Paratroopers (LGOPS), xi, 25, 40, 42, 189
Little John rocket, 104, 106, 112, 131, 140
Louisiana Maneuvers, 111
M-1 Abrams, 179
M-1 Garand, 108
M-2 Bradley, 179
M-14 rifle, 108
M-65 atomic cannon, 101–2, 106
Marine Corps, United States, 8, 71, 85, 162, 166
Marshall, George, 17, 25, 27, 40, 51, 58–59, 62; Marshall Plan, 67
Mathewson, Lemuel, 152
McAuliffe, Anthony, 51, 53–54, 62, 72, 122
McCaffery, Barry, 189
McCarr, Lionel C., 112
McElroy, Neil H., 106
McNamara, Robert S., 86–87, 90, 118, 128–29, 132–33, 138–39, 167
medical evacuation, and gliders, 61; and helicopters, 108, 143, 178
Meyer, Edward C., 185
Midway, Battle of, 103
Miley, William, 19–20, 50–51, 151
Military Air Transport Service, 161, 164
Military Assistance Command—Vietnam (MACV), 140, 176
MIM-104 Patriot, 179
mobility, strategic, 81, 113, 141, 148–50, 157–58, 159, 164, 173; tactical, 3, 55, 63–64, 114, 120–46; discussion of the two, 148
Modern Mobile Army 1965–1970 (MOMAR I), 115–16
MOMAR II, 116
Moore, Harold G., 135, 138, 141–45
Moorman, Frank, 98
NASA, 118
National Airborne Day, 184
National Committee to Save the Beret, 185
National Museum of the United States Army, 186
National Security Act of 1947, 67
National Security Council Memorandum 68 (NSC 68), 68
Navy, United States, 70, 74–77, 93, 105, 164–65
1958 Defense Reorganization Act, 179
Nixon, Richard, 160
Normandy, xi, 33, 37, 42–47, 56–63, 79, 86, 114, 123, 152, 186, 189
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 67, 72, 77, 79, 94, 116, 167, 183
Oakes, John C., 164
Oerlikon rockets, 126
OH-13 Sioux, 126
Operation Blue Bat, 162
Operation Desert Storm, 119
Operation Dragoon, 47
Operation Giant III (see also Avellino), 42, 49
Operation Husky, 34, 120; decentralization during, 37–47; lessons from, 40–42
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 177
Operation Junction City, 169
Operation Market Garden, 15, 47, 60, 120, 149
Operation Merkur (Crete), 12
Operation Overlord, 120; decentralization during, 42–45, 46; lessons from, 45–46; 46; see also Normandy
Operation Rapid Road, 170
Operation Swaggerstick, 161–62
Operation Uphold Democracy, 1
Operations Plan (OPLAN) 316, 165
Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, 39
Panzergrenadier divisions, 116
Parachute Battalion (film), 12
Parachutist Badge, 12, 19, 184; senior and master badges, 185
Patton, George S., 40, 51, 54, 63
Pentomic, 98–99, 109–17, 121, 148, 159; definition, 5; origin of the term, 113
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), 141–42, 145, 176
People’s Liberation Armed Forces (Vietcong), 145, 176
Pershing missile, 106
Phenix City, Alabama, 20
Powell, Colin, 2
Project Binnacle, 110
Project VISTA, 94
Ranger Battalions, 180
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF), 180
Reagan, Ronald, 181
Redstone missile, 104
Reorganization Objectives Army Division 1965 (ROAD), 116–17
Reorganization of the Airborne Division (ROTAD), 112–13
Republic of Korea Army, 72, 114
Ridgway, Matthew B., 3, 5, 36, 58–59, 61, 63, 65–66, 68, 70, 72, 82–85, 91, 93, 122, 150–52, 175, 178, 184–85, 190; and atomics, 95–96, 99, 109–14; as chief of staff, 73–80, 99, 156; as commander of 82nd, 17–18, 25, 38–42, 48, 56; as commander of XVIII Airborne Corps, 49–53, 149; and Korea, 70–71
Rio Pact, 1947, 68
Ryder, William T., 25
Schwarzkopf, Herbert Norman, 159
Second Manassas, Battle of, 123
Seitz, Richard J., 31, 170–71, 176
Special Forces, 35, 88–89, 118, 132, 166, 178, 185, 188
Sputnik, 102
Stevens, Robert T., 78–79, 156
Stillwell, Joseph, 123
Stockton, Richard, 141
Strategic Air Command, 9, 82, 95, 103, 125, 152, 158, 173
Strategic Army Corps (STRAC), 81, 148, 157–64; motto, 158; responding to delicate situations, 159, 189
Strategic Army Forces, 158
Tactical Air Command, 125, 130, 161, 164
tactical atomic warfare (limited atomic warfare), 69–70; defensive concepts, 98; logistics, 98; offensive concepts, 97; and relation to World War I, 97
Taylor, Maxwell D., 3, 5, 26–27, 36, 62, 65–66, 72–73, 90–93, 122, 125, 163, 167, 175; on atomic doctrine and technology, 99–108; as chief of staff, 78–84, 92–93, 172; as commander of the 101st, 43–44, 50–54, 58; entry to the paratroops, 25; and Flexible Response, 84; and gliders, 58–59; and Kennedy, 85–88, 166; on Pentomic reorganization, 111–18; on strategic mobility, 150, 156–59; as superintendent of West Point, 68–69; on Ridgway, 71; and Westmoreland, 57, 82, 176
Team SNAFU, 53
Tet Offensive, 169
The Parachute School, 16–18, 26, 34, see also Basic Airborne Course
Throckmorton, John L., 171
Training Circular No. 113 (TC 113), Employment and Training of Airborne and Troop Carrier Forces, 41–42
Trapnell, Thomas, 164
Trudeau, Arthur G., 127
Truman, Harry S., 71, administration of, 66–67; and United Mine Workers, 171
Turner, Stansfield, 181
ULTRA, 39
United Mine Workers, 170
University of Mississippi integration (Operation Rapid Road), 170
Weapon Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), 46, 69–71, 94–95
Werbomont, 51
West Point, United States Military Academy, 24, 66, 82, 101, 125, 135; football uniforms, 184; Taylor’s changes to the curriculum, 68–69
Western Hemisphere Reserve, 112, 148, 158
Westmoreland, William C., 10, 57, 129; as commander of MACV, 140, 143, 145, 169, 176, 178; as Secretary of the General Staff, 82; thoughts on air vehicles, 130
Wheeler, Earl G., 133–34, 137, 156–57
Winski, Brian, 189
Wyman, Willard G., 126