“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 9 2 - 9 7
29. CM-OUT, AGO to Wheeler, 3
Mar. 1942.
30. Histories, Hq. Tenth Air Force,
51st Service Gp., 51st Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; Russell
interview.
31. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942; Supplies and Services to be
Rendered to USA Forces in India, rec-
ord of meeting held 22 Mar. 1942, in
Ninth AF, Papers Relating to USAAF
in India, 1942.
3 2 . T h e mission was composed of
Henry F. Grady, H.E. Beyster, Dirk
Deltker, A.W. Herrington, and Frank A.
Waring. They arrived a t New Delhi on
17 April and departed from Karachi 2 2
May. ( A Survey of India's Industrial
Production for W a r Purposes, Report of
the American Technical Mission to India
[hereinafter cited as Grady report], sub-
mitted to the governments of India and
the United States, August 1942.)
WAR, #4 ST, 19 Feb. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila 83, 1 5 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 5, 30 Mar. 1942.
34. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold:
#Aquila 83, 15 Mar.; #Aquila 19, 2 6 Mar.;
and #Aquila 24, 18 Mar. 1942; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 5, 30
Mar. 1942; interview with Col. Homer
L. Sanders (Air Room), June 1943;CM-
IN, ABDACOM to AGWAR, 37 DX,
17 Feb., and #17, 19 Feb. 1942.
35. CM-IN-I.B. 70, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 63, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila I, 26 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
$Aquila 1 3 1 , 2 8 Mar. 1942; memo for
C/AS from O.L. Ferson, AFROM, 2 3
Apr. 1942.
36. CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 64, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Karachi
to Arnold, #618, 29 Apr. 1942.
37. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#AMSEG 516, 2 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-
35, Arnold to Brereton, #AF 3/89, 5 Mar.
1942; memo for Chief, WPD, W D G S
from Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942; History, X
Air Force Service Command, 1942.
33. CM-IN, ABDACOM to AG-
725
Staff, Washington, 2 5 Mar. 1942. Also,
see popular accounts of AVG.
18. CM-IN, Magruder to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 161,4 Jan. 1942;CM-OUT-
0046, Marshall to Brereton, $93, I Apr.
1942; memo for AS/W John J. McCloy
from Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville, Dir.
of Air Defense; memo for Gen. Arnold
from Lt. Col. H.A. Halverson, 3 Feb.
1942; memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR.
19, Col. John Y. York, Jr., Report on
Planes for A V G and Chinese, 6 Mar.
1942; Maj. Paul G. Pennoyer, Report on
Planes for China and AVG, I Apr. 1942;
CM-OUT-3 268, Arnold to Marshall,
#362, 17 Apr. 1942.
20. CM-IN, GHQ Java to T A G , sgd.
Brett, #ABDA 448 A, 18 Feb. 1942; CM-
IN, Brett to AGWAR, 10 Feb. 1942.
21. ABC-4/9, 10 Jan. 1942.
22. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR, 18 Mar. 1942; memo for AAG
from Col. H.L. George, AC/AS, AWPD,
2 3 Feb. 1942; R&R, Maj. Gen. M.F. Har-
mon, C/AS to Col. Shumacker, 17 Mar.
'942.
2 3 . CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
18 Mar. 1942; History, Hq. and Hq. Sq.,
Tenth Air Force.
24. Histories, 51st Service Gp., Hq.
Tenth Air Force, 5Ist Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, # I I Z , 2 8 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
19 Mar. 1942.
25. Memo for C/AS from Col. H.A.
Craig, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-99,
Arnold to Brereton, #AAF PC 42, z Apr.
1942; History, 59th Service Sq., 1941-42.
26. CM-OUT-57, Ulio to Brereton,
#AAF RC 165, 20 Mar. 1942; CM-IN-
2400, Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila
1724, 8 June 1942; Lt. Col. John E. Barr,
Report on P-40 Mission, Special Project
157, 19 June 1942. in History, Hq. Tenth
Air Force, 1942.
27. Barr report.
28. Interview with Brig. Gen. Clinton
W. Russell, 4. June 1942; CM-IN, Brere-
ton to Arnold, #AMSEG 516, 2 Mar.
1942.