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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. 28 …PARNAMIRIMFIELD,NATAL,BRAZIL,JUNE1942 . . . BLUIE WEST I , JUNE 1942 . . . . . . . . . . REYKJAVIKAIRFIELD,ICELAND,APRILI 942 . . . . . . THENIGHTSHIFT,PATTERSONFIELD,ICELAND…
  • p. 157 …Brazil offered a likely avenue of approach. Natal, a focal point for established trans-Atlantic air…
  • p. 371 …Pivoting at Natal, it had to traverse an additional 6,000 miles in order to reach…
  • p. 375 …Panair do Brasil, a Pan American subsidiary, had undertaken at Belem and Natal the development with…
  • p. 376 …From Belem, the ten transports proceeded to Natal and thence across the Atlantic to Bathurst. All…
  • p. 378 …Miami-San Juan (Puerto Rico) -Port of Spain (Trinidad) - Belem-Natal-Fisherman’s Lake (Liberia) -Lagos…
  • p. 384 ATKINSON FIELD, BRITISH GUIANA, JUNE 1942 PARNAMIRIM FIELD, NATAL, BRAZIL, JUNE 1942
  • p. 385 …The two bases a t Belem and Natal, built with airport development program funds by the…
  • p. 386 …The most feasible route was determined to be from Natal to Ascension Island to Pointe Noire…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 413 …In order to avoid piling up a heavy backlog of cargo and passengers at Natal, it…
  • p. 414 …L D W A R I 1 Natal toward the end of June, at which time…
  • p. 854 …78 Narsarssuak, 157, 343, 641 Nassau, 355 Natal, 120, 319, 321-22, 324, 3 2 ~ 3…
G L O S S A R Y *
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AAB Army Air Base
AACS Army Airways Communications System
AAFAC
AAFIB
AAG Air Adjutant General
ABDACOA4 American-British-Dutch-Australian Com-
ABDAIR Air Commander, American-British-Dutch-
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command
Arm; Air Force in Great Britain
mand
AC
AC/AS
A/Cdre.
ACFC
ACM
AC/S
ACTS
Actv.
AD
ADC
ADP
AEF
AFACE
AFACT
AFAFP
AFAFC
AFATC
AFCAS
AFCC
AFDAS
AFDMR
AFDOP
AFh40P
Australian Command
Air Corps
Assistant Chief of Air Staff
Air Commodore
Air Corps Ferrying Command
Air Chief A4arshal
Assistant Chief of Staff
Air Corps Tactical School
Activation
Air Depot
Alaska Defense Command
Airport Development Program
American Expeditionary Force
Assistant Chief of Air Staff-5
Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training
Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Plans
Ferrying Command
Air Transport Command
Chief of Air Staff
Air Force Combat Command
Deputy Chief of Air Staff
Directorate of Military Requirements
Directorate of Personnel
Directorate of Organizational Planning
* I n usage the original meaning of code names frequently becomes corrupted.
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