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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. 97 …Under it the naval air forces will be based on the fleet and move with it…
  • p. 260 …the ground, personnel of the Far East Air Force fought back as best they could in…
  • p. 267 …force of its ability to assert and maintain control of the air over its own bases…
  • p. 268 …were forced to break away because of a shortage of fuel. One pilot, Lt. William M…
  • p. 359 …By I June the Eleventh Air Force, so designated on 5 February, had been greatly increased…
  • p. 444 …bail out. Lts. William L. Turner and C.L. Reagan were forced into crash land- ings…
  • p. 464 …Available air base personnel were sent out to enlist the aid of local leaders and to…
  • p. 481 …Army Forces in Australia.’ General Brett assumed command of the Allied Air Forces on 2 0…
  • p. 764 …Fifth Air Force, 30 Sept. 1942; Statement of Personal Experience, made by Lt. Col. W.A…
  • p. 776 …A Study of the Origins of the Ninth Air Force, pp. 1-15; Stettinius, Lend-Lease…
  • p. 786 …1942; GO 4, 1 1 , 20, 26, 37, 38, and 5 2 , Fifth Air Force, 6…
  • p. 863 …position, 271-73, 277, 280; staging bases, 336 Western Air Lines, 358 Western Defense Comd., 190…
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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