“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 5 1 5 - 2 8
NOTES TO CHAPTER 15
I . AAFAC A4onthly Bulletin, passim.
2 . History, First Air Force, 111, Pt. 10,
7-10; ltr., Maj. Gen. G.C. Brant to Gen.
Arnold, 30 Oct. 1941; ltr., Arnold to
Brant, 27 Nov. 1941; ltr., Adm. Harold
R. Stark to C/S US. Army, 8 Nov. 1941.
3. Office of Naval Intelligence, The
Conduct of the War at Sea, 1 5 Jan. 1946.
This is a translation of an essay by Adm.
Karl Doenitz.
4. Excerpts from Eastern Sea Frontier
W a r Diary, Dec. 1941, Tab I H, in Three
Historical Essays Relating to Army Anti-
submarine Activities (hereinafter cited as
Three Essays), 26 Apr. 1944; Report by
blaj. A. Standish to Secretary of War
for Air, I Dec. 1943, p. 3 . Figures are
taken from US. Fleet Antisubmarine
Bulletin, June 1943, but cf. Standish re-
port, p. 5 . See also memo for CG
AAFAC from Maj. W. Jackson, Asst.
A-2, AAFAC, 7 Mar. 1943, Tab 11, in
Three Essays.
5 . See especially plan attached to
memo for C G AAF from Col. Lyon and
Col. Williamson, 2 7 Feb. 1943; AAFAC
Liaison Office, Proposed Reorganization
of ASW Forces, 2 1 Jan. 1943; Edward L.
Bowles, The Acute Problem of Ocean-
borne Transport and Supply, special re-
port for S/W, I Mar. 1943. The subject
will be discussed in Volume I1 of this
history.
6. Reference data attached to memo
for Marshall from Arnold, 2 1 Feb. 1942,
in Plans file 111-B, Bk. I . Reference is
here made to Act of 5 June 1920 (41
Stat. 954) as amended by Sec. I , Act of
z July 1923 (44 Stat. 780).
7. Joint Action of the Army and
Navy, I I Sept. 1935.
8. See correspondence in Plans file
111-R,Bk. I under dates November and
December 1941 for discussion of pro-
posed revision of Joint Action and
RAINBOW No. 5.
9. History, I Bomber Command; file
of corresDondence and orders concern-
Dec. 1941, Tab I A, in Three Essays. Cf.
Standish report, p. 3.
I I . Standish report, p. 6. The convoy
system was inaugurated formally on 15
May 1942. (Digest of ESF War Diary,
Tab I N , in Three Essays.)
1 2 . ESF War Diary, Dec. 1941 and
Jan. 1942, quoted in Tab IB, D, and E,
Three Essays; ltr., Comdr. NANCF to
COMINCH, 14 Jan. 1942, Tab I C , in
Three Essays.
1 3 . Col. D.R. Lyon, History and
Organization of the Army Air Forces
Anti-Submarine Command, n.d.; AAFAC
A4onthly Antisubmarine Summary, Jan.
1943, p. 3 2 . According to this account,
the squadrons principally involved were
the zoth, 43d, and 96th Bombardment
squadrons.
14. When activated on 5 September
1941, the I Bomber Command consisted
of a headquarters squadron, three heavy
and one medium bombardment groups, a
similar number of reconnaissance squa-
drons, and a single pursuit group. (Lyon
history.)
15. Ltr., Comdr. NANCF to COM-
INCH, 14 Jan. 1942, Tab I C ; ESF War
Diary, Tabs I F and I G , in Three Essays.
16. Lyon history; Standish report,
p. 2 .
1 7 . Ltr., Hq. I BC to CG First Air
Force, 14 Jan. 1942; Col. C.A. McHenry,
The Antisubmarine Command of the
Army Air Forces, 1 3 Oct. 1943, prepared
for release in the Army and Navy
Journal.
18. Draft history, I BC. Cf. AAFAC
file I I I .o and list prepared by historian,
I BC.
19. AAFAC Historical Report on
Training.
to. Draft history, I BC.
2 1 . Jbid.; report by W / C O.F. Can-
ning, RAF to Capt. J.T.G. Stapler, USN,
Col. H.D. Smith, First AF, and Lt. Col.
R.B. Williamson, I BC, 17 Feb. 1942. See
also file 115.51.
ing Ioo-Aile limit, in special file of Brig.
Gen. Frederic H. Smith, Jr.
Naval Coastal Frontier to C/NO, 2 2 24. See sources in n. 23; also AAF
2 2 . Standish report.
10. Ltr., Corn&. North Atlantic 2 3 * draft history* I BC’
7 2 9