IX Air Force Troop Carrier Command
Command
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Headquarters
Station | Location | Date |
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Based | St Vincents | |
Based | Eastcote |
Military | Colonel | A-3 planning officer for 9th Troop Carrier Command
Colonel Silas Rhead Richards served on the planning staff of the 9th Troop Carrier Command for D-day and Operation Market Garden. He served under Gen. Paul L. Williams and Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Subsequently he served as liaison to...
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:42:54 | AAM | AAM ingest |
Sources | ||
Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |