“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 T O P A G E S 1 9 7 - 2 0 3
describes the attack as having been made
in three waves rather than two. The
operations order and interrogation of
participating personnel indicate that the
actual attack was launched in two waves.
(See Hem-ngs . .. Pearl Harbor Attack,
Pt. 13, Exh. 8-B, 420-22 and Exh. 8-C,
4 ~ 6 2 7 ; USSBS herrogations I 13 and
603.) The R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor At-
tack, p. 58, gives a slightly different
breakdown of the number of planes ern-
ployed, with the following totals: 81
fighters, 135 dive bombers, 104 horizontal
bombers, and 40 torpedo planes.
5 . R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack,
pp. 138-40; Walter Karig et al., Battle
Report (New York, 1944)~I, 12-17; ltr.,
Brig. Gen. H.C. Davidson to CG Hawai-
ian Air Force, 18 Dec. 1941, in History,
VII Fighter Command; AAF Historical
Study No. 41, Operational History of the
Seventh Air Force, 7 Dec. 1941-6 Nov.
1943.
6. Battle Report, pp. 28-38; USSBS
Intrs. 65, 113, and 479.
7. R e p o r t . ..Pearl Harbor Attack,
pp. 64, 69. See also Battle Report, pp. 93-
96 and Plate XV. The additional loss of
five incoming planes from the carrier
Enterprise brought the total loss of naval
aircraft to ninety-two, and to this figure
were added at least thirty planes badly
damaged.
8. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p.
62; AAFHS-41.
9. AAFHS-41.
10. Zbid.; ltr., Gen. Davidson to C G
Hawaiian Air Force, 18 Dec. 1941. See
also citations of the pilots mentioned.
1 1 . Records of tel. conversations in
Fourth Air Force Historical Study IV-I,
Processing and Ferrying Functions, 1941,
Vol. 11, Docs. 42-66; Histories, 19th
Bomb. Gp. and 435th Bomb. Sq.; 435th
[Bomb. Sq.1 Overseas.
12. AAFHS-41, especially App. 3,
W a r Diary kept by A-3, Hawaiian Air
Force, 7-31 Dec. 1941.
13. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack,
p. 141.
14. USSBS Intrs. 65, 113, and 479;
Hearings.. .Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 13,
Exh. 8 4 , 426-27.
686
15. Memo for Roberts Commission
by Hq. Hawaiian Air Force, 26 Dec.
1941, in AAFHS-41, App. z. See also p.
6. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 65,
states: “A total of 96 Army planes were
lost as a result of enemy action, this fig-
ure including aircraft destroyed in depots
and those damaged planes which were
subsequently stripped for parts.”
16. AAFHS-41, pp. 5-6; Hearings.. .
Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 1 2 , 325, lists
Army casualties as follows: killed in ac-
tion 194, wounded in action 360, missing
in action 2 2 , died nonbattle 2 , declared
dead I, and died of wounds 2 1 , for a
total of 600.
17. USSBS Intrs. 113 and 603; Report
...Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 64, suggests
that the presence of US. Naval Task
Force I Z south of Midway was probably
the deciding factor.
18. USSBS Intrs. 503, Vice Adm.
Shigeru Fukudome, 9 Dec. 1945; 424,
Capt. Bunzo Shibata, 18 Nov. 1945; and
74, Capt. Chihaya Takahashi, 20 Oct.
‘945.
19. USSBS Intr. 74, Capt. Chihaya
Takahashi, 20 Oct. 1945; USSBS, Sum-
mary Report (Pacific W a r ) , I July 1946.
20. 1st ind. (ltr., Chief, AAF His-
torical Office to C G Third Air Force,
30 Jan. 1946), Brereton to Paul; History,
Fifth Air Force and Its Predecessors, Pt.
I, Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, 8-9.
2 1 . History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I ,
Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, pp. 8-9; History,
24th Pursuit Gp.; Statement of Personal
Experience, made by Maj. Stewart W.
Robb at the request of historical per-
sonnel, 30 Nov. 1944; statement by Maj.
David L. Obert, 14 May 1945.
22. USSBS Intr. 601, 2 8 Nov. 1945,
Comdr. Ryosuke Nomura, who during
the invasion of the Celebes was air op-
erations officer of the 23d Air Flotilla;
Operations of the Japanese Navy in the
Invasion of the Philippines, 15 May 1946,
ATIS Doc. 1 9 6 9 2 .
23. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.
24. Histories, 27th Bomb. Gp. and
24th Pursuit Gp.
25. Interview with Col. Eugene Eu-
bank, 2 July 1942; unrecorded interview