![]() IX Troop Carrier Command - Military Wiki. C- 4. 7 Skytrain of the 7. Troop Carrier Squadron, 4. Troop Carrier Group. C- 4. 6 Commando of the 4. Troop Carrier Squadron, 3. ![]() Troop Carrier Group. Waco CG- 4. A Glider. The IX Troop Carrier Command was a United States Army Air Forces unit. As a component command of the Ninth Air Force, based in the United Kingdom. As a result of a 2. Operation Varsity resulting from the C- 4. IX TCC did not convert to the Commando, even though its cargo- carrying capacity was twice that of the C- 4. IX TCC also had 1,9. ![]() CG- 4. A Waco and 2. Waco CG- 1. 3 gliders just prior to its last major operation in March 1. At the same time the IX Troop Carrier Command was activated, having been constituted by USAAF Headquarters five days before the headquarters of IX TCC transferred to Grantham where it remained until 2. September 1. 94. 4, when it transferred to Ascot, Berkshire, its final location in Europe. Its first headquarters was located at RAF Cottesmore, where it took control of a provisional headquarters established by the Eighth Air Force in September. On 1 October 1. 94. Troop Carrier Group became part of the provisional command and was the only group assigned. Twelve airfields were designated for the new command, each to house 4. C- 4. 7s and a like number of gliders: RAF Fulbeck, RAF Langar, RAF Bottesford, RAF Wakerley, RAF Balderton, RAF North Witham, RAF Barkston Heath, RAF Cottesmore, RAF North Luffenham, RAF Saltby, RAF Folkingham, and RAF Woolfox Lodge. RAF Ramsbury, RAF Aldermaston, and RAF Greenham Common also became available as landing areas for tactical training with the 1. Airborne Division and later became troop carrier bases. A second wing, the 5. Troop Carrier Wing, arrived from Sicily on 1. February 1. 94. 4. Its five groups had participated in the large airborne assault during the Allied invasion of Sicily and had flown combat jumps on a smaller scale in Italy. On 1. 1 March 1. 94. TCW, arrived from the United States along with five groups that had just completed their operational training. There was no stateside component of the IX Troop Carrier Command until the very end of WW II when the headquarters designation was transferred stateside. The wings were realigned to provide the 5. TCW, tasked as the primary unit for glider operations, with the four groups already operational in February 1. ![]() Reproduction of a WWII us army airborne troop carrier command patch. 2 1/4 x 3 5/8 inches on khaki backing cut edge.![]() Wing. The command grew to a total of 1. April 1. 94. 4 when the 3. TCG was taken off transport duties in the Mediterranean and assigned two additional squadrons to bring it up to full TO& E, and when the newly created 4. TCG arrived from the United States. The groups of the 5. Wings began intensive night formation training that included practice jumps with the airborne divisions assigned to them, which continued through April, when the division commanders decided to stop further unit jump training. The 5. 3rd TCW began training at the beginning of March but had virtually no troop experience until mid- May, when they began a series of mock night operations to raise their level of training.
Both the 3. 15th and 4. May. Five groups also conducted training in night glider assaults during both April and May. By 1 June IX TCC had approximately 1,2. C- 4. 7s and 1,4. The Command Pathfinder School was redesignated the 1st Pathfinder Group (Provisional) in August 1. The 5. 0th TCW moved to bases in France in September as well. The command carried out extensive formation training for Operation Varsity, an airborne assault across the Rhine River, and executed it on 2. March 1. 94. 5, delivering the U. S. 1. 7th Airborne Division. The groups of the 5. TCW based in France returned to England to carry the British 6th Airborne Division in the assault. On 1 February 1. 94. Greenville Army Air Base, South Carolina, in preparation for inactivation, which took place 3. March 1. 94. 6. On 8 October 1. United States Air Force, now a separate military service, disbanded the command permanently. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0- 8. 92. 01- 0. Johnson, David C. Army Air Forces Continental Airfields (ETO), D- Day to V- E Day; Research Division, USAF Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. USAF Historical Study 9. Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater, Air University.
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