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Report of Pathfinder Operation “Nuts,” Headquarters IX TCC Pathfinder Group (Prov.) Office of the VXIII Corps, Airborne, June 27, 1945 by Frank L. Brown, Infantry (Parachute) Corps Pathfinder Officer.
Packed Parachute Delivery Supplies at AAF 465, APO 133, January 9, 1945, Headquarters 409th Quartermaster Depot Commander, Marvin F. Jacobs, 1st Lieutenant, QMC, Operations Officer.
Report of Resupply of American Troops in Bastogne Area, Headquarters, IX Troop Carrier Pathfinder Group (Prov.), 1944 by Lieutenant Colonel Joel L. Crouch.
Siege of Bastogne, Historical Section, European Theater of Operations, Office of the Chief of Military history by S.L.A. Marshall, Colonel.
BOOKS
Crusade in Europe by General Dwight D. Eisenhower (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948).
The Memoirs of Field Marshall Montgomery by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1958).
Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgeway by Matthew B. Ridgeway as told to Harold H. Martin (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956).
On to Berlin: Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943–1946 by General James M. Gavin (New York: Viking, 1978).
Airborne: World War II Paratroopers in Combat Edited by Julie Guard (United Kingdom: Osprey, 2007).
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II’s “Band of Brothers” by Sergeant Don Malarky with Bob Welch (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008).
In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company’s Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth by Larry Alexander (New York: New American Library, 2007).
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster (Louisiana State University Press, 1994).
The Filthy Thirteen: From the Dustbowl to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest: The True Story of the 101st Airborne’s Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers by Richard Killblane and Jake McNiece (Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2003).
Fighting With the Filthy Thirteen: The World War II Story of Jack Womer—Ranger and Paratrooper by Jack Womer and Steven DeVito (Philadelphia: Casemate 2012).
Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life by Boyd Jay Peterson (Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2002).
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959).
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974).
If Chaos Reigns: The Near-Disaster and Ultimate Triumph of the Allied Airborne Forces on D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Flint Whitlock (Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011).
Tonight We Die As Men: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day by Ian Gardner and Roger Day (United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2009).
Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion, Told by Those Who Were There Edited by Ronald J. Drez (Louisiana State University Press, 1996).
War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944 by Michael Green and James D. Brown (Norwalk: MBI Publishing, 2009).
American GI in Europe in World War Two, Volume 3 by J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann (Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2009).
Deliver Us from Darkness: The Untold Story of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment During Market Garden by Ian Gardner (United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2012).
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
Pegasus Bridge, June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988).
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944–May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus (New York: New American Library, 2012).
Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible by John C. McManus (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
D-Day with the Screaming Eagles by George Koskimaki (New York: Presidio Press, 2006).
Hell’s Highway: A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944 by George Koskimaki (Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2003).
Hell’s Highway: U.S. 101st Airborne and Guards Armored Division by Tim Saunders (Pennsylvania: Casemate, 2001).
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne: The 101st Airborne and the Battle of the Bulge, December 19, 1944–January 17, 1945 by George Koskimaki (New York: Presidio Press, reissue edition, 2007).
101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles at Normandy by Mark Bando (New York/London: Zenith Press, 2001).
101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles in World War II by Mark Bando (New York/London: Zenith Press, 2007).
Avenging Eagles: Forbidden Tales of the 101st Airborne Division in World War 2 by Mark Bando (Michigan: Mark Bando Publishing, 2007).
Into the Valley: The Untold Story of USAAF Troop Carrier Command in World War II from North Africa through Europe by Charles Hutchinson Young (Michigan: PrintComm, 1995).
Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Toland (New York: Random House, 1959).
The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge by Pete Schrijvers (The University Press of Kentucky, 2005).
ARTICLES
“Lillyman, Invasion Pathfinder, Knew He Was to Lead Invasion,” Howard Cowan, The Syracuse Herald-American, June 8, 1944.
“Paratrooper Capt. Lillyman, Husband Skaneateles Woman, First Soldier to Land in France,” Uncredited, The Skaneateles Press, June 9, 1944.
“Capt. Lillyman’s Cigar Plays Important Part in Jump, He Once Said,” Uncredited, The Skaneateles Press, June 9, 1944.
“Soldier at Ease: New York Hotel Treats Paratrooper Veteran to Banana Splits, Fancy Five-Room Suite and Bemushroomed Steaks,” Uncredited, LIFE Magazine, December 3, 1945.
“D-Day Hero Dies,” Uncredited, Lodi News Sentinel, March 9, 1971.
“D-Day Remembered,” Uncredited, Air Force News Agency, June 8, 2006.
“Sergeant Recalls Days under General Taylor,” Uncredited, Kentucky New Era, June 29, 1959.
“Generals Rise at Dawn Says Lorelle Hearst,” Lorelle Hearst, The Milwaukee Sentinel, June 10, 1944.
“The Pilot Who Led the D-Day Invasion,” Tony Reichhardt, Air & Space Magazine, June 6, 2014.
“Supplies Are Dropped to U.S. Troops: Surrounded Men Get Aid as Relief Column Is Nearing London,” Associated Press, The Independent-Record, December 27, 1944.
“Supplies to Troops: Ammunition Parachuted to Americans in Bastogne Area,” Associated Press, Lawrence Journal-World, December 27, 1944.
“The Story of the 101st Airborne Division,” booklet, Staff, Stars and Stripes Magazine, 1945.
“Family Seeks Clues to WWII Mystery of Missing Pilot,” Doug Clark, Ellensburg Daily Record, March 1, 2001.
“Story Behind a Brick of a Hero,” Libby Car, West Seattle Herald, July, 27, 2009.
“El Pasoans Went to War as Young Paratroopers,” John Hall, El Paso Times, November 11, 2010.
“Old Paratroopers Relives Leaps of Faith: 12 D-Day Pathfinders Reunite in Nashville for What May Be Last Time,” Leon Alligood, The Tennessean, May 20, 2006.
“World War II Veteran Everett Andrews Will Return to Bastogne, Along with Parachute Used in War,” Fayetteville Observer, Chick Jacobs, March 1, 2014.
“‘Filthy 13’ Squad Rivaled by None in Leaping Party,” Tom Hoge, Stars and Stripes, June 8, 1944.
“A Christmas Present for Bastogne,” Richard Killblane, World War II Magazine, September 2003.
“‘Filthy Thirteen’ Veterans Recount Their Antics during WWII,” Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes, November 10, 2008.
“World War I
I Soldier John (Jack) Agnew, Whose Unit Inspired ‘Dirty Dozen,’ Dies at 88,” Associated Press, New York Daily News, April 12, 2010.
“Jake McNiece, Who Led Incorrigible D-Day Unit, Is Dead at 93,” William Yardley, New York Times, February 13, 2013
Obituary, Joel L. Crouch, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 23, 1997.
TRANSCRIPTS/RECORDED INTERVIEWS
Acting Sgt. Jake McNiece, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, Pathfinder (Series of 15 videotaped interviews), The Witness to War Foundation, WitnesstoWar.org.
Acting Sgt. Jake McNiece and Private John J. Agnew, 506th PIR, Pathfinders, 2009 (video), American Veterans Committee.
Private Reed Williams, 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne, Pathfinder (Series of 6 videotaped interviews), The Witness to War Foundation, WitnesstoWar.org.
Sgt. Maynard “Beamy” Beamesderfer, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne, Pathfinder, and Private Angel Romero, 82nd Airborne, May 26, 2012 (radio), Hometownheroes.com, interview conducted by Paul Loeffler.
Lt. Reed Pelfrey, 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne, Pathfinder, 2011 (video), Curahee Military Museum.
Lieutenant Everett G. Andrews, 377th Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne, August 2001 (transcript), APSU Veterans’ Oral History Project.
Lieutenant Everett G. Andrews, 377th Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne, December 2013 (video), 101st Airborne Museum.
INTERNET
For information and links to archival 101st Airborne Pathfinder footage on the web: 502-101airborne.pl/sylwetki/frank-lillyman
For a partial list of Pathfinder teams and aircrews on D-Day: americandday.org
For information about the equipment used by the IX TCC Pathfinders: usairborne.be/Pathfinders/us_pathfinders_historique_txt.htm
For information about HMS Tartar: hmstartar.co.uk
For information about motion sickness pills used by paratroopers on D-Day and alleged looting during and after Market Garden: battledetective.com
For information about the makeup and disposition of German troops and antiaircraft batteries in the Netherlands: axishistory.com; regionaalarchieftilburg.nl
For information about 101st Airborne’s Battle at Best, in the Netherlands: battleatbest.com/battle-at-best-101st-airborne-division.html
For information about the burial of American war casualties in the Netherlands: adoptiegraven-database.nl
For invaluable information about the fate of IX TCC Pathfinder Flight 42-100981, its crew, and its Pathfinders (with a great debt to the investigative work of Chris Van Kerckhoven): forum.armyairforces.com; bloggen.be/warresearcher; 69th-infantry-division.com/pdf/USArmy69InfDiv_Vol56_No1_SepDec2002.pdf.
For information about the 326th Airborne Medical Company: med-dept.com/unit-histories/326th-airborne-medical-company