45th Infantry Recon Pilot

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I find this post just now so I start to post the information I have about "L birds" and Grasshopper pilots:

• "Fighting Grasshopper" and "Lightplanes at War: U.S. Liaison Aircraft in Europe, 1943-47 both by Ken Wakefield - out of print and really difficult to find at reasonable price.
• the already cited Alone and Unarmed by Staff Sgt. Kowalik
• EYES OF ARTILLERY: THE ORIGINS OF MODERN U.S. ARMY AVIATION IN WORLD WAR II by Edgar F. Raines, Jr. - Special Publications CMH Pub 70-31, Cloth; CMH Pub 70-31-1
• Seeing the Enemy: Army Air Force Aerial Reconnaissance Support to U.S.. Army Operations in the Mediterranean in World War II by DW Dengler - 2009 -

I will check the contents of these books to find info about the 45th.

Andrea

 

Updtate of the 7th of June 2015:

a new book by Ken Wakefield published in 2014 "The other Ninth Air Force" - Ninth US Army Ligth Aircraft operations in Europe 1944-45 - ISBN 9781781553022

 

Andrea