You are absolutely right. So many times we run into dead ends in our research and so we are grateful for every scrap of information that has been preserved. As I speak to groups today, I encourage them to think twice before they throw out granddad's old photo album or that box in the attic. Press on!
If you go to the Army War College, Command and Staff College, and Air University websites and look for the student papers collections, there are a number of post WW2 papers written about various glider actions during the war and ideas for their continued use after the war.
I agree, I have read a number of them. I am on the hunt right now for any reports of Pathfinder involved in Bastogne. They may be filed with their units reports - open to any ideas.
Are you also looking in the Infantry Journal et al for non-academic accounts? I'm not remembering anything on Pathfinders in the student papers but I didn't specifically search the term.
You are absolutely right. So many times we run into dead ends in our research and so we are grateful for every scrap of information that has been preserved. As I speak to groups today, I encourage them to think twice before they throw out granddad's old photo album or that box in the attic. Press on!
If you go to the Army War College, Command and Staff College, and Air University websites and look for the student papers collections, there are a number of post WW2 papers written about various glider actions during the war and ideas for their continued use after the war.
I agree, I have read a number of them. I am on the hunt right now for any reports of Pathfinder involved in Bastogne. They may be filed with their units reports - open to any ideas.
Are you also looking in the Infantry Journal et al for non-academic accounts? I'm not remembering anything on Pathfinders in the student papers but I didn't specifically search the term.