“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 2 8 - 4 0
Historical Study No. 19, Civilian Volun-
teer Activities in the AAF.
2s. Joint Action, chap. ii, par. 8 (a)
and (b); msg., COMINCH and C/S to
C G EDC, 2 s Mar. 1942; ltr., C G EDC
to Comdr. ESF, 28 Mar. 1942.
26. Ltr., Brig. Gen. Westside T. Lar-
son to Gen. Bradley, 19 Mar. 1942. Cf.
draft history, I BC.
27. See sources in n. 4.
28. Correspondence in AAFAC file,
Gulf Task Force Organization. See espe-
cially, ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. W.H.
Frank, 3 1 May 1942; ltr., Bradley to C G
I BC, 26 May 1942; ltr., T A G to CGS,
Southern Defense Command and Third
AF, 3 July 1942; ltr., Hq. Gulf Task
Force to The Air Inspector, 2 Oct. 1942.
29, See sources in n. 28; also ltr., Hq.
Third AF to C G AAF, 8 June 1942. Cf.
History, Third Air Force, Defense Ac-
tivities, 1941-44, p. 36.
30. Assessment of Attacks, in AAFAC
file 557. See also n. 38 below.
3 1 . Ltr., Hq. Advance Echelon, I BC
to all tactical comdrs., 19 Jan. 1942, in
AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Opera-
tions, Procedure. See also other cor-
respondence in same file.
32. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Procedure.
33. Ibid., passim.
34. Ibid., passim; Information Bulletin
35. Ltr., Comdr. ESF to all task group
36. Three Essays, Tab I N.
37. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Convoy Escort. See espe-
cially, ltr., Hq. Seventh Naval Dist. to
AS/W for Air, 1 3 May 1942; ltr., Hq.
I BC to C G s EDC and First AF, 29
May 1942.
38. Standish report; AAFAC file 557
(the assessments herein contained have
been checked with those printed in US.
Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin to Dec.
13, Hq. I BC, 3 1 July 1942.
comdrs., 24 Sept. 1942.
. .
~~~~.
1944). Authority for the “kill” of 7 July
comes from C/NO, German, Japanese,
and Italian Submarine Losses, World
W a r 11, which is a final summary of all
I 5 Jan. 1942.
55- lbid.
56. Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942.
certain evidence from all Allied and
enemy sources.
39. Standish report. See also charts in
AAFAC hlonthly Intel. Sum., Nov. 1942,
40. Standish report; Antisubmarine
Warfare Operations Research Group
Mcmo 2 0 , Analysis of US. Aircraft At-
tacks on U/Boats, 7 Dec. 1942, p. 4. In
this connection it should be noted that
several attacks reported by I Bomber
Command are not included here and
that of the total attacks listed, half, or a
significantly larger proportion, of radar
contacts were made by Army planes.
41. Doenitz, The Conduct of the War
at Sea.
42. Estimated at 859,000 tons for No-
vember as compared with 575,886 for
October. Monthly Intel. Sum., Nov. and
Dec. 1942.
pp. 8-9.
43. History, First Air Force.
44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8
May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p. 569; memo
for C G Field Forces from Deputy C/S
US. Army, 19 Feb. 1942.
45. History, Sixth Air Force, Mar.
19q-May f943, pp. I 18ff.; History,
Caribbean Air Force, p. 463.
46. US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin,
47. Report, Col. R.H. Wooten to C G
Field Forces, 1 2 Feb. 1943, in History,
Sixth Air Force, March 1942-May 1943;
Statistical Control, Caribbean data file,
Dec. 1941-Dec. 1943.
48. Memo, Office of A-2, Hq. Antilles
Air Command, 3 0 Nov. 1944; US. Fleet
Antisubmarine Bulletin, June 1943.
49. Standish report; History, 1st Sea
Search Attack Gp.
so. Standish report.
51. Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
AWPD, 1 5 Jan. 1942.
5 2 . Memo for Arnold from Rear
Adm. J.H. Towers, 14 Feb. 1942.
53. lbid.
~ 4 .Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
June 1943.
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