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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. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial air force.” For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
  • p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force faced no real opposition…
  • p. 121 …The hope was not fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly came to…
  • p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
  • p. 197 …naval forces, and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian naval, air, and ground…
  • p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to the Chinese Air Force. Known…
  • p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
  • p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power. 9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in special file of Brig…
  • p. 805 …History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
  • p. 851 …E S Italian Air Force: 82-85; development, Italian East Africa, 84 Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
  • p. 857 …See Italian Air Force. Reinforcements. See theaters. Renault works, 593 Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
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Operational Research Section
Operational training unit
Pan American Airways
Pan American Air Ferries, Inc.
Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command,
High Wycombe
Prime Minister
Pacific Ocean Area
New Caledonia Task Force
Plan position indicator
Public Relations Office
General Staff
Royal Australian Air Force
Radiogram
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force delegation
Joint basic war plan ( 1941) for offense in
Royal Canadian Air Force
Reconnaissance
Plan for invasion of western Europe, spring
Sea-Search Attack Development Unit
Secretary of Air Staff
Single engine
Section; Secretary
Plan for Army Air Forces to understudy
and relieve Royal Air Force fighter units
in Northern Ireland
Plan for emergency landing in western
Europe, October-November I 942
Secretary of Navy
Special Order
Services of Supply
Special Naval Observer Group
Special Observer Group, U.S. Army
Europe and defense in Pacific
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