“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I t
It is difficult even to establish the chronology of events for that
morning or to give anything more than the approximate time of those
events on which agreement exists. The most detailed general account
is that of Brereton, and for much of the detail given by him there exists
independent orr rob oration.^^ O n the main points a t issue, moreover,
support for much of his account is provided without complete agree-
ment by a file of the daily Summary of Activities of the Headquarters,
Far East Air Force, extending from 8 December 1941to 2 4 February
1942, when General Brereton relinquished command in Java on the
eve of his departure for India to assume command of American air
operations in that area. These daily summaries leave little if any ques-
tion that they represent a detailed record compiled closer to the
events described than any comprehensive account known to exist. In
the following narrative they have been weighted accordingly.*
After his early morning report to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson
‘These summaries acquire in the absence of other comparable records such an
importance as to justify at this point an attempt to describe them and the way in
which they reached the files of the Air Historical Office. They were transmitted to
that office after the termination of hostilities by AAF historical officers assigned to
the China-Burma-India theater. Presumably, they represent a record carried to India
by General Brereton or b other FEAF personnel who accompanied him to India, and
presumably they were l e J there at the time of his hurried departure in June 1942 for
the Middle East. (See below, p . 512-13.) Similar1 , records of early activity in India
reached the Air Historical Of&e through the e L r t s of the historical officer of the
Ninth Air Force, which General Brereton later commanded in ETO. The FEAF
summaries, which are typed out on loose sheets of two different sizes and of varying
weight and texture, all of them carbon copies except for the inserted notes of a stag
conference held on 19 December, are bound together by an acco fastener within an
ordinary manila cover. O n the cover has been written in ink, possibly by historical
personnel in the theater, “Early History 10th AAF”; but that has been struck out and
in its place appears “General Brereton’s Headquarters diary 8 Dec 41-24 Feb 42,” and
below that in pencil is written “Activity Report of FEAF.” Other markings were
apparently made by the filing personnel of the historical office. The historian is given
some pause by the fact that the daily summaries from 8 December through 13
December give the year as 1942 with corrections in ink for 8, 9, and 10 December.
The year appears without change as 1941for 14 December at which point the weight
of the paper changes, but reverts thereafter to 1942 until the entries for 16 December.
From that date forward the year is rendered correctly in the original typing. Since
one often writes by mistake the preceding year but rarely if ever puts down the new
year ahead of time, the likelihood that entries for the earlier dates were compiled at
some later time must be considered. Perhaps they represent a compilation taken from
available records for assistance in the preparation of such a report as is understood to
have been made by General Brereton in late January or early February (see note 3 2 ) ;
perhaps they are copies made from the original by a careless typist; perhaps there is
some other explanation. Whatever the case, the fullness and exactness of detail given,
together with the fact that at so many points independent corroboration can be had,
lead to the conclusion that the document represents a valuable record compiled closer
to the events described than any other known source of comparable scope.
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