US 9th Troop Carrier Command air operations figures
D-Day air operations – June 6, 1944
Airborne operations of the 9th Troop Carrier Command (TCC)
|
EVENTS
|
OPERATION ALBANY
|
OPERATION BOSTON
|
|---|---|---|
| Planned aircraft |
433
|
378
|
| Airplanes having taken off |
431
|
377
|
| Aborted take-offs |
2
|
1
|
| Aircraft shot down / missing |
13
|
8
|
| Damaged aircraft |
81
|
115
|
| Injured crew members |
4
|
11
|
| Crew members killed / missing |
48
|
17
|
| Transported paratroopers |
6 928
|
6 420
|
| Dropped paratroopers |
6 750
|
6 350
|
Glider transport operations of the 9th TCC
|
EVENTS
|
OPERATION CHICAGO
|
OPERATION DÉTROIT
|
OPERATION REOKUK
|
OPERATION ELMIRA
|
OPERATION GALVESTON
|
OPERATION HACKENSACK
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Aircraft |
52
|
52
|
32
|
177
|
102
|
101
|
| Airplanes having taken off |
51
|
52
|
32
|
175
|
100
|
101
|
| Aborted take-offs |
1
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
| Aircraft shot down / missing |
1
|
1
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
| Damaged aircraft |
7
|
38
|
1
|
92
|
26
|
11
|
| Wounded crew members |
4
|
4
|
0
|
1
|
84
|
70
|
| Crew members killed / missing |
1
|
3
|
0
|
8
|
2
|
0
|
| Horsa gliders |
0
|
0
|
32
|
140
|
20
|
30
|
| Waco gliders |
52
|
52
|
0
|
36
|
82
|
70
|
| Glider pilots killed / missing |
14
|
14
|
0
|
26
|
0
|
3
|
| Transported units |
155
|
220
|
157
|
1 190
|
968
|
1 331
|
| Transported artillery guns |
16
|
16
|
6
|
37
|
20
|
0
|
| Transported vehicles |
25
|
27
|
40
|
123
|
41
|
34
|
| Transported material (tonnes) |
14
|
10
|
19
|
131
|
26
|
38
|
Supply operations of the 9th TCC
|
EVENTS
|
OPERATION FREEPORT
|
OPERATION MEMPHIS
|
|---|---|---|
| Planned aircraft |
208
|
119
|
| Aircraft Devices having taken off |
153
|
117
|
| Aborted take-offs |
55
|
2
|
| Aircraft shot down / missing |
11
|
2
|
| Damaged aircraft |
94
|
35
|
| Wounded crew members |
22
|
4
|
| Crew members killed / missing |
29
|
2
|
| Transported units |
76
|
–
|
| Dropped units |
22
|
–
|
| Transported material (in tons) |
211
|
221
|
| Dropped material (in tons) |
156
|
215
|
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