“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 3 3 6 - 4 5
ACFC to Opns. Div., 3 Jan. 1942; CM-
IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for
Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb. 1942; His-
tory, FC Operations, pp. 99-100.
94. History, FC Operations, pp. IOO-
1 0 1 , and docs. cited in n. 9, p. 1 0 1 .
95. Memo for Gen. Harmon from
Col. George McCoy, Jr., 28 May 1942.
96. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June 1942 and July-Dec. 1942; History,
FC Operations, pp. 133-42.
97. History, FC Operations,. pp. 78-
79, 105-6; History, Caribbean DIV., Pt. 2 ,
98. Stettinius, Lend-Lease, pp. 154-56.
99. History, FC Operations, pp. 107-8.
100. R&R, Asst. for Opns. to ACFC,
1 2 Feb. 1942; ltr., Gen. Olds to Pan
American Airways, Inc., et al., 19 Feb.
‘942.
1 0 1 . History, FC Operations, p. 108.
102. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
cited in n. 96; PAAF Current Consoli-
dated Airplane Report.
pp* 1-36? 55-60.
103. AAFRH-8, p. 61.
104. Foreign F e r r y i n g Deliveries,
July-Dec. 1942; ltr., Col. C.R. Smith to
Exec. Munitions Assignments Board, I I
June 1 9 4 2 .
105. Ltrs., AAF to C/AC, 9 and 19
Jan. 1942; docs. cited in History, FC
Operations, n. I I , p. 113, and n. 2 2 , p. 122.
106. History, FC Operations, pp. I 12-
17; interview with Lt. Col. W.R. Stark
by Mrs. M.G. Radsch, 10 Apr. 1946.
107. History, FC Operations, pp. IZI-
2 2 ; Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June IWL.
108. History, FC Operations, pp. 122-
25; ltr., Lt. Col. John E. Barr to CG
Tenth Air Force, 19 June 1942; Foreign
Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-June 1942 and
July-Dec. 1942.
109. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
in n. 108.
I 10. History, FC Operations, pp. 109-
12; AAFRH-8, pp. 69-75, 85, 96-113.
I I I . Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I
Feb. 1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941;
memo for Gen. Arnold from H.T.
704
Lewis, O.W. Coyle, and Maj. E.H.
Alexander, 24 Mar. 1941; Atlantic Bridge,
pp. 26-27; History, North Atlantic Div.,
ATC, I, Pt. I , 68-71.
112. Memo for Gen. Spaatz from
Capt. T.N. Charles, 1 3 Mar. 1941;memo
for C/S from Gen. Brett, 1 2 Apr. 1941;
memo for C/S from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 3 June 1941; memo for C/AC
from Col. Robert Olds, 23 June 1941;
memo for T A G from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 10 July 1941; memo for AWPD
from Gen. Spaatz, 26 Aug. 1941; memo
for C/S from AAF, 23 Sept. 1941.
113. Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I Feb.
1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from Maj.
E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
114. Memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
1 1 5 . History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 85-86.
116. Zbid., 85-89; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic
Bridge, pp. 27-29.
117. Ltr., Sec. of State Cordell Hull
to Danish Minister Henrik de Kauffman,
7 Apr. 1941; ltr., Kauffman to Hull, 9
Apr. 1941;Peace and W a r : U S . Foreign
118. Memos for C/S from Acting
AC/S, WPD, 3 and 10 June 1941; ltr.,
T A G to C/S, 10 July 1941; History,
North Atlantic Div., I, Pt. I , 103.
119. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 104.
120. Ltr., AAF to Capt. Elliott Roose-
velt, 1 1 Aug. 1941; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941;memo
for Col. Olds from Capt. J.H. Rothrock,
6 Sept. 1941.
121. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 105-6.
122. Zbid., 100-101.
123. Ibid., 107-13; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941.
124. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 12-15, 78-83, 113-16.
125. Zbid., 397;-40X, 405-6; History,
8th Weather Sq. m Greenland, pp. 1-2;
memo for C/AC from Col. Robert Olds,
24 Nov. 1%’.
Polk’)’, 1931-1941, pp. 103-4.