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Origins of American Special Units Bibliography of Sources Consulted Books, diaries, unpublished manuscripts: Aaseng, Nathan; Navajo Code Talkers; NY: Walker; 1992 Adams, James; Secret Armies: Inside the American, Soviet, and European Special Forces; NY: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1987 Adleman, Robert H. and George Walton; The Devil’s Brigade; Philadelphia, PA; Chilton Books; 1966 Alexander, John H; Mosby's Men; NY: Neale Publishing; 1907; reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg Andrews, John; Airborne Album - 1943-1945 - Normandy to Victory; Phillips Publications; Williamstown, NJ; 1993 Asprey, Robert B; War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History; Garden City, NY; 1975 Autry, Jerry; General William C. Lee - Father of the Airborne; Raleigh, NC; Airborne Press; 1995 Axelrod, Alan; Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee; NY: Prentice Hall; 1993 Baker, Alan D.; Merrill's Marauders; New York; Ballantine Books; 1972 "Basic Directive on Jedburghs, Prepared Jointly by SOE/SO"; dated 20 December 1943 Barbey, Daniel E.; MacArthur's Amphibious Navy - Seventh Amphibious Force Operations 1943- 1945; Annapolis, MD; United States Naval Institute; 1969 Bass, Robert D.; Swamp Fox: The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion; Lexington, SC: The Sandlapper Store; 1959 Beaumont, Roger A.; Military Elites - Special Fighting Units in the Modern World; New York; Bobbs-Merrill; 1974 Bergen, Howard R.; History of 99th Infantry Battalion - U.S. Army; Oslo, Norway; Emil Moestue A-S; 1945 Bidwell, Shelford; The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma, 1944; NY: MacMillan Publishing Company; 1979 Biggs, Bradley; The Triple Nickels - America's First All-black Paratroop Unit; Archon Books; Hamden, CT; 1986 Billias, George A.; General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners; NY: Henry Holt; 1960 Bixler, Margaret T.; Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II; Darien, CT: Two Bytes Publishing;1992 Black, Robert W.; Rangers in Korea; NY: Ivy Books; 1989 ________; Rangers in World War II; NY: Ivy Books; 1992 Blacker, Irwin R. (editor); Irregulars, Partisans, Guerrillas - Great Stories From Rogers' Rangers to the Haganah; New York; Simon and Schuster; 1954 Blair, Clay, Jr.; Ridgway’s Paratroopers: The American Airborne in WWII; New York; Doubleday; 1985 Blassingame, Wyatt; The U.S. Frogmen of World War II; NY; Random House; 1964 Bonham, Frank; Burma Rifles; New York; Berkley Highland Books; 1960 Bray, George A. III; Anglo-American Partisans of the French and Indian War; Author's collection ________; Major Scott's Provisional Light Infantry Battalion; Author's collection Breuer, William B., Geronimo! American Paratroopers in WWII; New York; St. Martin Press; 1989 ________; MacArthur's Undercover War: Spies, Saboteurs, Guerrillas, and Secret Missions; NY; John Wiley & Sons; 1995 ________; The Great Raid on Cabanatuan - Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor; New York; John Wiley & Sons; 1994 Brown, Anthony Cave; Bodyguard of Lies; NY; Harper & Row; 1975 Brown, Anthony C. (editor); The Secret War Report of the OSS; New York; Berkley Publishing; 1976 Brown, Ashley and Jonathan Reed (editors); The Unique Units; Harrisburg, PA; National Historical Society; 1986 (The Elite - The World's Crack Fighting Men, volume 10) Brown, Dee A.; Morgan's Raiders; NY; Konecky & Konecky; 1959 Burford, John; LRRP Team Leader; NY; Ivy Books; 1994 ________; LRRPs in Action; Carrolltown, TX; Squadron/Signal Publications; 1994 Burhans, Robert D.; The First Special Service Force: A War History of the North Americans, 1942-1944; Washington, D.C.; Infantry Journal Press; 1947 Butler, Lorine L.; John Morgan and His Men; Philadelphia; Dorance; 1960. Callahan, North; Daniel Morgan: Ranger of the Revolution; NY; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1961 Canon, M. Hamlin; Leyte: The Return to the Philippines; Washington DC; Office of the Chief of Military History (in the United States Army in World War II series); 1954 Cohen, Eliot A.; Commandos and Politicians - Elite Military Units in Modern Democracies; Harvard University (Harvard Studies in International Affairs, Number 40); 1978 Cohen, Stan; The Forgotten War; Missoula, MT; Pictorial Histories Publishing Company; 1981 Connell, Brian; Return of the Tiger; Garden City; Doubleday; 1960 Cuneo, John R; Robert Rogers of the Rangers; NY; Oxford University Press; 1959 Davis, Burke; The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign; Philadelphia; J.P. Lippincott; 1962 Davis, William C; Rebels and Yankees: Fighting Men of the Civil War; N.Y.; Gallery Books; 1989 Day, James Sanders; Partisan Operations of the Korean War; Master's Thesis; University of Georgia; 1989 Dear, Ian; Subservion & Sabotage - Tales From the Files of the SOE and OSS; London; Arms and Armour Press; 1996 Delauter, Roger U., Jr.; McNeill's Rangers; Lynchburg; H.E. Howard; 1986 Department of the Army, Headquarters; Doctrine for Army Special Operations Forces; Field Manual 100-25; Washington, D.C.; GPO; 1991 Devlin, Gerald M. and William P. Yarborough; Paratrooper! The Saga of the U.S. Army and Marine Parachute and Glider Combat Troops During World War II; New York; St. Martin’s Griffin; 1986 Dillan, Richard H.; North American Indian Wars; NY; Facts on File; 1983 Dilley, Michael F.; GALAHAD - A History of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional); Bennington, VT: Merriam Press; 1996 __________; Elite Warriors – 300 Years of America’s Best Fighting Troops; Ventura, CA; Pathfinder Publishing; 1996 __________; Behind The Lines – A Critical Survey of Special Operations in World War II; Philadelphia, PA; 2013 Duke, Basil W.; A History of Morgan's Cavalry; Bloomington; Indiana University Press; 1960. Dwyer, John B.; Scouts and Raiders - The Navy's First Special Warfare Commandos; Westport, CT; Praeger; 1993 Epstein, Samuel and Beryl Epstein; The Andrews Raid or the Great Locomotive Chase; NY; Coward-McCann; 1956 Evanhoe, Ed; Darkmoon: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War; Annapolis, MD; Naval Institute Press; 1995 Fawcett, Bill (Ed.); Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam; NY; William Morrow; 1995 Finnegan, John P.; Military Intelligence - A Picture History; U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command; date unknown but around 1986 Flanagan, Edward M., Jr.; The Angels - A History of the 11th Airborne Division 1943-1946; Washington; Infantry Journal Press; 1948 ________; The Los Banos Raid - The 11th Airborne Jumps at Dawn; New York; Jove Books; 1986 Fleming, Thomas J.; Downright Fighting: The Story of Cowpens; Washington, DC; Department of the Interior; 1988 Foote, William A.; The American Independent Companies of the British Army 1664-1764; Doctoral Dissertation; University of California at Los Angeles; 1966 Ford, Kirk, Jr.; OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance; Westport, CT; Praeger; 1992 Funk, Arville L.; The Morgan Raid in Indiana and Ohio (1863); Mentone; Superior Printing; 1971 Galvin, John R.; Air Assault - The Development of Airmobile Warfare; New York; Hawthorn Books; 1969 Garrett, Richard; The Raiders - The Elite Strike Forces that Altered the Course of War and History; New York; Van Norstrand Reinhold; 1980 General and Special Staff sections; Report on the Luzon Campaign; Sixth United States Army; undated Gerson, Noel B.; Light Horse Harry; NY; Ballantine Books; 1966 ________; The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion; NY; Ballantine Books; 1967 Goodhart, Briscoe; History of the Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers: U.S. Vol Cav (Scouts): 1862-65; Washington; McGill & Wallace; 1896; reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Gaithersburg Gray, David R.; Black and Gold Warriors: U.S. Army Rangers During the Korean War; Doctoral Dissertation. Ohio State University; 1992 Gregory, Howard; Parachuting's Unforgettable Jumps; La Mirada, CA; Howard Gregory Associates; 1974 Grimes, Martin; Turnip Greens and Sergeant Stripes; New Rochelle, NY; Arlington House; 1972 Guthrie, Bennett M.; Three Winds of Death - The Saga of the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team in the South Pacific; Chicago; Adams Press; 1985 Gutjahr, Robert G.; The Role of Jedburgh Teams in Operation Market Garden; Master's Thesis; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; Fort Leavenworth, KS; 1990 Haas, Michael E.; Air Commando! 1950-1975: Twenty-five years at the Tip of the Spear; USAF; 1994 Haggerty, Jerome J.; A History of the Ranger Battalions in World War II; Doctoral Dissertation; Fordham University; 1982 Haney, Ken; U.S. Marine Corps Paratroopers, 1940-1945; Jackson, TN; privately published; 1990 Hardin, Stephen; The Texas Rangers; London; Osprey Publishing; 1991 Heimark, Bruce H.; The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II; Westport, CT; Praeger; 1994 Higginbotham, Don; Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman; Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina Press; 1961 Historical Branch, G-2, War Department; Merrill's Marauders; Washington; American Forces in Action Series; 1945 (reprinted in 1968 by Normount Armament Company, Forest Grove, OR, and edited by Donald B. McLean) Hochstrasser, Lewis B.; They Were First - The True Story of the Alamo Scouts; unpublished manuscript in author's collection; 1944 Hogan, David W., Jr.; Raiders or Elite Infantry? The Changing Role of the U.S. Army Rangers from Dieppe to Grenada; Westport, CT; Greenwood Press; 1992 ________; The Evolution of the Concept of the U.S. Army's Rangers, 1942-1983; Doctoral Dissertation; Duke University; 1986 ________; U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II; Washington; Center of Military History; 1992 Holbrook, Stewart H.; The Swamp Fox of the Revolution; NY: Random
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