“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
N O T E S
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NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
I . Howard E. Coffin, quoted in New
2 . A.W. Sweetser, T h e Americun Air
3. Zbid., pp. 230-31.
4. Zbid., chap. 5 .
5. N e w York Times, 10 June 1917.
6. Dr. C.D. Walcott of NACA, quoted
in Sweetser, op. cit., p. 45.
7. E.S. Gorrell, T h e Measure o f Amer-
ica’s World W a r Aeronautical Effort
(Northfield, Vt., 19401, p. 2 .
York Times, 14 June 1917.
Service (New York, 1 9 1 9 ) ~pp. 66-68.
8. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 16.
9. G.W. Mixter and H.H. Emmons,
U.S. A r m y Aircraft Production Facts
(Washington, 1919), p. 5 .
10. J.J. Pershing, My Experiences in
the World W a r (New York, 19311, I,
27.
1 1 . Sweetser, op. cit., p. 46.
1 2 . Zbid., p. 54; Mixter and Emmons,
op. cit., p. 5 .
13. J.M. Spaight, T h e Beginnings of
Organized Air Power: A Historical
Study (London, 1 9 2 7 ) ~p. 239.
14. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 93, n. I , quot-
ing the legislation.
15. Spaight, op. cit., pp. 238-45, based
largely on Sweetser.
16. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 190ff.
17. Zbid., chaps. vi and vii.
18. Ibid., pp. 210-17.
19. Zbid., pp. 218-19, 238; Spaight, op.
20. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 220ff.
2 I . Zbid., pp. 240, 247-48. Spaight , ( o p .
Cit., pp. 279-88) summarizes statistics
from various sources.
22. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 232-33.
23. Pershing, op. cit., I, 161-62.
cit., pp. 2 4 6 5 1 .
24. M.M. Patrick, T h e United States
in the Air (New York, 1928), p. 1 5 .
2 5 . H.A. Toulmin, Jr., Air Service,
A.E.F., rp18 (New York, 1927), pp. 74-
78. 26. Patrick, op. cit., p. 16.
2 7 . Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29 (table);
Pershing, op. cit., 11, 61.
28. Patrick, op. cit., pp. 1-16; Toul-
min, op. cit., chap. vi.
29. Patrick, op. cit., p. 17. Here he
gives the previous goal as 354 squadrons.
30. Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29.
3 1 . Final Report of Chief of Air Serv-
ice, A.E.F. (Washington, 1921).
3 2 . Details in this section are taken
from the best of the Mitchell biographies:
Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of
Air Power (New York, 1943).
3 3 . For quotations see ibid., 92-94.
35. Zbid., pp. 97-100,
36. Zbid., p. 108.
3 7 , Final Report.. ., A.E.F., passim.
Another summary of the participation of
American air units in the war will be
found in [Clayton L. Bisselll Brief His-
tory of the Air Corps and Its Late De-
velopment (Air Corps Tactical School,
Langley Field, Va., [19271), pp. 33-65.
38. William Mitchell, “The Air Serv-
ice at St. Mihiel,” World’s W o r k ,
XXXVIII (Aug., 1919), 360-70; Final Re-
port ..., A.E.F.
39. Quotations and general concept of
the battle taken from William Mitchell,
“The Air Service a t the Argonne-Meuse,”
World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Sept. 1919),
5 5 2 - 6 0 ; Final Report.. . , A.E.F.
40. Quoted in Special AAF Historical
Study, Review of Aerial Warfare for the
Scientific Advisory Board (Jan. 1945),
p. 3.
34. ]bid., pp. 95-97.
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