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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.
“Pacific Ocean”16 pages
- p. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait
separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
- p. 242 …O R+
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- p. 322 …any one
of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
- p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s
statement that “the broad oceans which have…
- p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have
connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
- p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the
Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance
of…
- p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route
It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
- p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief
of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
- p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the
Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
- p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air
strength for the Pacific, to…
- p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry
(London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of
Information covering the organization…
- p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early
Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro
Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
- p. 797 …This
action was to be co-ordinated with an
operation in the South Pacific against
Tulagi…
- p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command,
High Wycombe
Prime Minister
Pacific Ocean Area
New Caledonia Task Force
Plan…
- p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496
India-China Ferry, organization, 508
Indian Ocean, 33…
- p. 856 …I , 432, 477
Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236,
272-73
Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
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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