“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 4 8 2 - 9 0
Brett reports; CM-IN-6753 (5-24-42),
MacArthur to C/S, #798, 24 May 1942.
30. See sources in n. 29.
31. CM-IN-5228 (7-15-42), GHQ to
C/S #CIIO, 1 5 July 1942; interview with
Maj. Tom A. Montgomery, in History,
ASC in SWPA; Hq. US. Army Air
Services to C G AAF, 7 July 1942, ibid.;
AAF, #89, 1 5 July 1942; CM-IN-0998
July 1942; interview with Capt. Vincent
L. Snyder (19th Bomb. Gp.).
32. It should be noted that General
MacArthur had felt as early as May that
his air force could be strengthened by
reorganization. Since this reorganization
did not begin until August 1942, it will
be discussed in a subsequent volume.
(Msg., Arnold to C G USAFIA, 10 May
1942; CM-IN-8604 [6-26-42], GHQ
SWPA to AGWAR, #74, 26 June 1942;
C M - I N - ~ I ~ O Z[6-30-4~1, GHQ SWPA
to AGWAR, #260, 30 June 1942.)
33. CM-l’N-1697 (8-5-42), MacArthur
to C/S, 3 Aug. 1942.
CM-IN-5037 (7-15-42). GHQ to C G
(7-3-42), GHQ to C G A M , #A159 3
NOTES TO CHAPTER 14
I. History, Hq. Tenth Air Force,
1942; memo for C/S from AAF Hq., 20
Feb. 1942; CM-OUT-29, AGWAR to
Brereton, #AF 2/442, 2 5 Feb. 1942; CM-
O U T , AGWAR to Brereton, #AF 3/7,
I Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
6 Mar. 1942.
2 . The road from Haiphong, Indo-
China, to Yunnan was closed by the
Vichy government in 1940 under pressure
from the Japanese. (Edward R. Stettinius,
Jr., Lend-Lease, Weapon for Victory, p.
111.)
3. Ibid., p. 109.
4. Instructions given General Clagett
may be found in ltr., C/S to Brig. Gen.
H.G. Clagett, Philippine Dept., 29 Mar.
194’-
5 . For formation and implementation
of the policy of air aid to China, see
AAG 000-800,l’ndia-China and 450, India-
China; also, n. 4, in AAF Historical
Study No. 12, The Tenth Air Force,
1942, chap. i.
7 2 4
6. Daniel Arnstein, Marco Hellman,
and Harold Davis, traffic and trucking
experts, reached Chungking in July.
John Baker, another American, was made
administrator of the Burma Road.
Largely as a result of their efforts the
tonnage leaving Lashio monthly for China
was increased from 4,000 early in 1941 to
15,000 by November. This included gas
used by the trucks en route. (Stettinius,
Lend-Lease, pp. I I I ff.)
7. Ibid., p. 116; memo for C/S by
Brig. Gen. L.T. Gerow, Acting AC/S,
WPD, 26 Aug. 1941.
8. For the relationship that the
Magruder mission was to bear to Chen-
nault’s AVG, see memo for Lauchlin
Currie from Oscar Cox, Lend-Lease
Administration, 2 8 Nov. 1941.
9. Claire L. Chennault, “Role of De-
fensive Pursuit,” Coast Artillery Journal,
Nov.-Dec. 1933, pp. 411-17; Jan.-Feb.
10. Stettinius, Lend-Lease, p. 115.
I I . See above, n. 5 .
1 2 . Memo for C/S from Gen. Spaatz,
C/AS, 3 Dec. 1941.
13. Army Air Force Study Pertain-
ing to Proposed Reinforcement of China
with Army Air Force Units for the Pur-
pose of Assisting the Chinese to Resist
the Possible Japanese Attack Against
Kunming, 20 Nov. 1941.
14. Memo for C/S from Gen. Spaatz,
C/AS, 3 Dec. 1941.
1 5 . Information on A V G operations
has been gathered from many fragmen-
tary sources such as cable messages
(British and American), letters, diaries,
interviews, and popular books. No of-
ficial source exists, but it is believed that
the material included here is as accurate
as it has been practicable to make it
without a far more extensive study than
is appropriate for this work.
16. British msg. #Wtooj57, ABDA-
COM (from Wavell) to W a r Office, 26
Jan. 1942; Brit. msg. #DBA 1 1 , CCS to
ABDACOM, 6 Feb. 1942.
17. Brit. msgs. #77801 and #78144,
W a r Office to Brit. Army Staff, Wash-
ington, 2 2 and 24 Mar. 1942; Brit. msg.
#78310, GOC BURMA to Brit. Army
1934, pp. 7-1 I ; Mar.-Apr. 1934, pp. 87-93.