Leading the Way to Victory: A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940-1945

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Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base.

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Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base.The December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II. Just six months later in May 1942, flying new C-47 transport aircraft, the 60th Troop Carrier Group led the way as the first U.S. TCG to deploy to England and the European Theater of Operations in World War II. Leading the way to victory, the 60th TCG's first mission—dropping U. S. paratroopers outside of Oran, North Africa—was not only the first combat airborne mission in U.S. Army history, but also the longest airborne mission of the entire war. This drop spearheaded Operation TORCH, also known as the Invasion of North Africa, by taking key Axis airfields just inland from the amphibious landing zones. The 60th TCG went on to fly some of the first combat aeromedical evacuation missions and the first combat mission towing CG-4A "Waco" gliders during Operation HUSKY—the Invasion of Sicily. As the new airborne, air land, aeromedical evacuation, and glider missions matured in World War II, the 60th TCG continued to play a major role, paying in blood for valuable lessons learned in the school of hard knocks. The group later flew dramatic missions into Yugoslavia, supporting Partisans as part of the secret war in the Balkans, an episode of World War II history still all but unknown today and dropped British paratroops in the airborne invasion of Greece. The Group was inactivated at the end of the war.Drawing on official United States Army Air Forces microfilm records, operational records in the National Archives, photographs from both collections, published historical materials, and many personal accounts, author Mark C. Vlahos' expertly written and highly readable volume is certain to become the standard history and go-to reference for the 60th TCG. This work offers scholars and lay readers alike an authoritative, informative, and engaging saga of the Group's battles, adversity, hardships, and triumphs from inception through the Allied victory in Europe.

Author Biography

Colonel Mark "Plug" Vlahos retired from the United States Air Force in 2011. During his 29-year career, he served in a wide-range of operational flying and staff assignments including command of a C-130 squadron in combat and Vice Wing Commander of the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base, which was then the largest C-130 wing in the world. Colonel Vlahos attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and holds master's degrees from Webster University and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is a member of the Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift Association, The Air Force Historical Foundation and the Leon B. Spencer Research Team of the National World War II Glider Pilot Committee. He resides in New Braunfels, Texas.

Details ISBN1637584822 Author Colonel Bill Kehler Short Title Leading the Way to Victory Language English ISBN-10 1637584822 ISBN-13 9781637584828 Format Hardcover UK Release Date 2023-05-11 Publisher Permuted Press Year 2023 Imprint Permuted Press Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2023-05-11 AU Release Date 2023-05-11 NZ Release Date 2023-05-11 US Release Date 2023-05-11 Subtitle A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940–1945 DEWEY 940.544973 Audience General Pages 496 We've got this

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