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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)
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This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.
“Italian Air Force”14 pages
- p. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the
French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
- p. 113 …Japanese Air Power
The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air
arms, had…
- p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial
air force.”
For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
- p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force
faced no real opposition…
- p. 121 …The hope was not
fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly
came to…
- p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of
the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
- p. 197 …naval forces,
and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian
naval, air, and ground…
- p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s
forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
- p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to
the Chinese Air Force.
Known…
- p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to
England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
- p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power.
9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in
special file of Brig…
- p. 805 …History, First Air Force.
44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8
May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
- p. 851 …E S
Italian Air Force: 82-85; development,
Italian East Africa, 84
Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
- p. 857 …See Italian Air Force.
Reinforcements. See theaters.
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Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
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 1
tee thus found its work reduced to an academic status, except insofar
as it provided assistance in the planning for an invasion of Northwest
Africa and for distant objectives in the United Kingdom.
Even before the first heavy bomber mission of the Eighth could be
flown, Operation T O R C H had cast its shadow over the hopes of the
AAF for a major share in the strategic bombardment of Germany.
It would be the chief task of the Eighth Air Force through the en-
suing weeks to prepare the Twelfth Air Force for the invasion of
Africa. JUNIOR was the name pinned on the new air force, but
JUNIOR would outgrow its parent and less than three months after
Mission I of the VIII Bomber Command, General Spaatz could well
ask: “What is left of the Eighth Air Force after the impact of
TORCH?”1s8
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