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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

Air Force Historical Studies Office · 863 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.

  • p. 103 …hour from the Boe- ing plant in Seattle to Dayton-a distance of 2,100 miles…
  • p. 322 …on the preceding night “store windows in Seattle which did not dim were smashed by irate…
  • p. 330 …aircraft plants as those of Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, and Consolidated…
  • p. 335 …submarine- launched aircraft were subsequently used over Seattle.82 A careful study of the evidence suggests…
  • p. 342 …to guard the 1,200 miles from Seattle to San Diego.'" This * See above, pp. 153…
  • p. 350 …advance warning of aircraft approaching the vital Seattle-Bremerton region from across the international border. This…
  • p. 531 …a plane from a submarine to scout Seattle harbor, while another plane checked on Dutch Harbor…
  • p. 858 …Attack Development Unit, Force, 420 Sea Lion, 218 550-51 602 Seattle, 285, 298, 466 783
I A I R FORCE I
FIGHTER
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AIR SERVICE BOMBER
.Air Suppon.
Bomber Bomber Tactical, nc.
Troop Grricr,
Ranks of Various Unit C o m w a d e r s
Air Force - Lt. General
Command - Rlaj. General
Wing - Brig. General
Group - Colonel
Squadron - nlajor
(Per T/Os-July 41 & July 4 2 )
REPRESENTATION OF RELATIVE STRENGTH OF AAF UNITS, 1941
T h e strength of a group in terms of squadrons and the strength of a squadron in terms of planes and personnel is actual as of May 1942. T h e number of groups in
a wing, wings in a command, and commands in an air force is determined b y need. Wings usually conrained two to four groups. Commands, likewise, were organized
as the size and scale of activity demanded.

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