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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.
“Cairo”26 pages
- p. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa,
the South Atlantic, and up…
- p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from
Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
- p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo.
Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
- p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and
for hauling critical items of supply east…
- p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54
Before operations could begin, Pan…
- p. 379 …Maxwell had
been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities
similar to those…
- p. 380 …to the opening of a service
to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
- p. 381 …R Y I N G
Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important
military…
- p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field
for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
- p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through
Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
- p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more
exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
- p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad-
Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi
the LB-3o’s under…
- p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The
first step was to establish a ferrying…
- p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be
shipped from…
- p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo.
Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
- p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more
than courier services and…
- p. 411 …from their
normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far
East. A plan…
- p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington-
Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
- p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental &
Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to
Cairo, using two…
- p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force
CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
- p. 630 …one group of heavies set
up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
- p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D
65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to
Trip…
- p. 779 …1942; CM-
IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for
Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
- p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb.
IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
- p. 830 …BOLERO
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CAA
C/AAF
C/AC
CAIRO
C/AS
C A T F
CCRC
CCS…
- p. 844 …5
Cagayan (Mindanao), 219
Cagayan Valley, 208
Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
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
the USAAF, its doctrine of daylight bombardment remained entirely
an article of faith as far as any experience in combat under European
conditions was concerned.
So it was that on 17 August 1942all eyes were fixed on a bombard-
ment mission which in the later context of strategic bombing would
have appeared insignificant indeed. The experiment begun on that
day culminated during the following year in the Combined Bomber
Offensive, a campaign which could only have been attempted after
all major doubts regarding the use of heavy bombardment forces had
for practical purposes been removed.
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