“RAF”60+ pages
- p. 12 …T h e term “first narrative,” bor-
rowed from the RAF, was frequently used to describe…
- p. 16 …history would constitute a lifetime assignment-the RAF’s history of
World W a r I…
- p. 47 …being made
up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the
French…
- p. 48 …early 1917.O n 6 June 1918the RAF’s Independent Force had been
established with its…
- p. 53 …Most radical was the independent air force,
usually drawing heavily upon the RAF and its Air…
- p. 114 …I when a
British mission of retired RAF officers and others arrived in Japan to
assist…
- p. 127 …At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain…
- p. 128 …After French surrender on 2 2 June, only the RAF remained
for the Luftwaffe to conquer…
- p. 129 …T h e RAF and the Battle of Britain
The German bombing of Britain in World…
- p. 130 …The RAF retained its autonomy; but, even so, sentiment for
many years, like that in the…
- p. 131 …it was
hoped that the badly ournumbered RAF would be able to hold off
any German…
- p. 132 …By the end of September the RAF had asserred its control of the air
over rhe…
- p. 133 …It will take no credit from the RAF’s outnumbered “few” to sug-
gest that the…
- p. 136 …Operations of the RAF after the fall of 1940 were as widely dis-
persed as were…
- p. 137 …on strategic bombardment, would find in the RAF a stout and under-
standing ally. It is…
- p. 171 …British requirements amounted to
49,385 planes, including first-line strength and wastage for the RAF…
- p. 186 …with fresh data and a familiarity with RAF
experience. Actual authorship of a military document is…
- p. 290 …to
prewar plans, was to join the RAF in the attack on Germany. This
project was…
- p. 338 …Fortunately, the RAF,
magnificently served by such advisers as Robert Watson-Watt,
rapidly went beyond the…
- p. 341 …enjoyed
through the co-operation of the RAF unusual opportunities to com-
pare results with those…
- p. 343 …United States military mission in London, the
RAF offered the services of Robert Watson-Watt, Scientific…
- p. 369 …The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand…
- p. 391 …of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had…
- p. 398 …an
initial mission to participate with the RAF in the bombardment of
Germany. Questions remained regarding…
- p. 404 …air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the…
- p. 553 …of models considered obsolescent for AAF and RAF needs,
and cadres of American pilots and ground…
- p. 555 …were considered obsolescent by the AAF and
RAF) previously allocated to Sweden were released for the…
- p. 556 …in addition to collaboration with a small RAF contingent in
defense of Rangoon, he provided patrol…
- p. 557 …Even when the
enemy after his first experience sought to wipe out the RAF and
A…
- p. 565 …General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a…
- p. 566 …Unable to
challenge seriously the enemy’s supremacy in the air, meager RAF
and A V…
- p. 568 …May, the bombers struck at
Mingaladon, former RAF airdrome near Rangoon which the Japanese
were using…
- p. 570 …fensive efforts between the Tenth and the RAF, and on 1 5 April the
War Department…
- p. 571 …Accordingly, on
24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations
under RAF supervision…
- p. 609 …It also reflected the profound influence exerted by the RAF
Coastal Command on AAF thinking. That…
- p. 610 …Fleet
Air Arm by creating a special RAF command, equipped and trained
for sea search and…
- p. 614 …control in terms comparable to those governing RAF
Coastal Command. Almost from the beginning, the question…
- p. 615 …it had
been the experience of the RAF “that a purely defensive policy only
leads to…
- p. 619 …On the tactical side,
valuable assistance was obtained from an experienced RAF crew
which flew two…
- p. 626 …bomber crews
flying borrowed Bostons in an RAF routine sweep against enemy
airfields." During the seven…
- p. 628 …current allocation of heavy bombers to the RAF.6 N o immediate cut
was contemplated; and…
- p. 630 …was suggested that for the present the RAF
would assume sole responsibility for the air offensive…
- p. 633 …the conduct in co-operation with the
RAF of an offensive against western Europe in 1942…
- p. 634 …T o
the Air Staff, as to RAF Bomber Command, the bomber offensive
had figured as…
- p. 635 …Now that the SLEDGEHAMMERJROUNDUP strategy had
been accepted, the RAF wanted the United States to increase…
- p. 636 …the British desire for reinforcement of the
Middle East; the RAF Coastal Command’s request for…
- p. 637 …I ) allocate to
Great Britain for the RAF and Dominion air forces aircraft according
to an…
- p. 647 …TRIGGER,
a plan to set up in America, with RAF aid, a model air defense sector…
- p. 648 …important fea-
tures were borrowed from the RAF. H e proposed to effect a sharp
cleavage…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 653 …Chaney must provide for their operational control with-
out recourse to the RAF. Chaney’s immediate…
- p. 656 …forces and the RAF, provision must be
made for two chains of command-that of the…
- p. 657 …i.e., Eighth Air
Force = RAF; VIII Bomber Command = RAF Bomber Command) ;
and while it provided…
- p. 659 …Under these conditions, relations with
RAF Bomber Command were more important for the Eighth Air
Force…
- p. 660 …ning for the bomber offensive with the RAF.
Daylight or Dark?
As an argument in favor…
- p. 661 …weapons are the Russian army and the RAF.” 1 5 5
It is significant that this…
- p. 662 …Critics complained of the RAF’s failure to provide adequate close
support for ground operations in…
- p. 663 …Messages from that office cast doubts upon the results of the RAF
bomber offensive and criticized…
- p. 664 …When in 1941 the two air staffs began planning their combined
attack on Germany, the RAF…
- p. 665 …Even before the war, RAF preference had run to night tactics for
strategic bombardment, an attitude…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 8 0 - 8 5
7 1 . Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 1942.
The submarine was the 1-17, which was
sunk south of New Caledonia on 19 Au-
gust 1943. Interrogation of surviving
crewmen at that time placed the sub-
marine off San Diego on 10 February
1942 and indicated that it fired twenty-
four or twenty-five shells onto the coast
near Santa Barbara on 2 3 February. After
further operations off the California
coast, it returned to Japan in March.
(USAFISPA G-2 Periodic Report No. 39
[Z-9 OCt. 19431.)
7 2 . For details see A-2 Daily Sum.,
2 3 and 24 Feb. 1942; and History, 4th
A h Command, Jan. 19qz-July 1945, pp.
I 13-14.
73. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, Defense Plans and Operations
74. A-2 Daily Sum., 24 Feb. 1942.
75. Los Angeles Times, z j Feb. 1942.
76. History, 4th AA Command, Jan.
194t-July 1945, p. 116.
77. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, p. 31.
78. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
116-18; A-2 Daily Sum., 24 and 2 5 Feb.
1942. See also Los Angeles Times, 2 5
Feb. 1942.
79. Contemporary observations are
summarized in History, 4th A h Com-
mand, pp. I I ~ - 2 0 .
80. Report from WDC, 2 5 Feb. 1942,
in A-2 Daily Sum.
81. Los Angeles Times, 2 5 and 26
Feb. 1942.
8 2 . New York Times, 26 Feb. 1942,
reporting conference of previous day.
83. W D C report received in Wash-
ington at 1 3 1 5 hours, 2 5 Feb. 1942, quoted
in A-2 Daily Sum., 2 5 Feb. 1942.
84. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
119-20.
85. Report from WDC, 26 Feb. 1942,
quoted in A-2 Daily Sum.
86. Los Angeles Times, 2 7 Feb. 1942.
87. Ibid.
88. Ibid.
89. Quoted in Los Angeles Times, 28
(1942-45), p. 30.
Feb. 1942.
lar from Maj. Gen. J.E. Fickel, CG
Fourth Air Force), in Fourth Air Force
Historical Study 1-1, chap. ix; and Study
1-2 (1942-45), chap. ii.
54. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-1, chap. vii (especially pp. 2 3 2 ff.).
55. Ibid.
56. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
1-1, p. 270.
57, Along the West Coast in Feb-
ruary 1942 there was “little probability
that the air force units as now consti-
tuted could defend the vital targets
against a determined carrier based at-
tack.” (Memo for C/AAF from AWPD
[Col. George], 2 Feb. 1942.)
58. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
Notes on US-British Chiefs of Staff
Conference, 24 Dec. 1941, in AFSHO
files.
59. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
60. “The relief of Aruba and Curacao,
subject to Dutch concurrence, is to be
completed before the end of January.”
(BC-4/6.)
61. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
History, Caribbean Air Force, May 1941
-Mar. 1942, p. 512. The exact date of
the arrival of air units is not known, as
the latter source gives dates of 14 and 17
January (compare p. 5 7 2 with p. 5 1 2 , in
this regard).
62. A-2 Daily Sum., 3 1 Jan. 1942.
63. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
64. Ibid., 17 and 18 Feb. 1942; History,
Caribbean Air Force, Vol. TI1 (A-3 Pe-
riodic Report, 16-28 Feb. 1942). See also
History, Sixth Air Force, Mar. 1942-
May 1943, pp. 119--~2.
65. New York Times, 2 0 Feb. 1942.
There is a possibility that the damage to
shore installations on 19 February was
caused by star shells fired by the USS
Window. (See A-3 Periodic Report, as
cited in n. 64.)
66. A-2 Daily Sum., 2 Mar. 1942.
67. New York Times, 2 0 Apr. 1942.
68. Ibid., 18 Feb. 1942.
69. Ibid., 20 Feb. 1942.
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