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

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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
I N D E X
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A
A--2, AC/AS. See Intelligence, AC/AS.
A-3, AC/AS, 430
A--20: flown by Eighth AF, 660; by RAF,
634; in SWPA, 414; to U.S.S.R., 339
A-24: characteristics, 231, 478, 481; in
SWPA, 226, 387, 390, 401, 410, 414
A-29: lend-lease to China, 339; in
Abadan, 335
Abbeville-Drucat airdrome, 660
ABC-1, 130, 136, 1 3 ~ 4 5 ,236, 238, 240,
243, 2 5 2 7 5597 5629 576-78, 59'7 594
493, 576; Area, 36743, 384, 407, 430,
366-76
645
SWPA, 382, 410, 414, 431-32, 479
ABC-2, 130-3 I
ABDA Command: 244-45, 388, 392, 418,
432, 492; assumption by Dutch, 396;
comdrs., 367, 370; organization, 243-44,
Accident rate: Australia, 483; Eighth AF,
Accra, 320, 324-25, 3 2 ~ 3 2 ,340
Adak, 462, 464-65, 467
Adams, Lt., 219
Adelaide, 41 I
Adler, Brig. Gen. E.E., 326, 364, 497,
Admiralty (Brit.), 93, 541
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7
Aeronautics, Dept. of, 20, 23, 2 9
Aeronautics, Navy Bur, of, 129, 538, 566
Africa, in ferrying and air transport op-
erations, 2 2 8 , 299, 320-23, 328, 33-31,
North African.
509.3 5'3
336, 338, 340. 355-567 493-95. See also
Africa-Middle East Wing (ATC), 363
Air base (service) commands, origin and
Airborne interception radar, 2 8 9 4 9 0
Air Brigade, First Provisional, 26
Air Corps. See Army Air Corps.
Air Corps Act (1926), 2 3 , 29, 46, 5 6 5 7
Air Corps Board, 4 ~ 5 0 ,119
Air Corps Ferrying Comd.: control of-
ficers, 3zp-30; deliveries to Brit. in
Agra, 508-9
functions, 1 5 5
Canada and U.S., 316-17; first over-
seas services, 3 2 5 ; intel. sec., 334; mis-
sion, 314, 316; operations, 317-20, 325-
37, 340-44, 347-489 350, 3619 424, 641;
organization, 3 16, 362; overlapping of
facilities with ASC, 360-61 ; overseas
jurisdiction, 364-6:; requisition of mili-
tary planes from, 350; sectors, 337,
344; summary, 363. See also Air Trans-
port Comd.
Air Corps Maintenance Comd. See Air
Service Comd.
Air Corps Tactical School, 33, 46-52.. 59,
146, 604; theory of air war outlined,
51-52. See also ASTS.
Air Corps Training Center, I I z
Aircraft: allocation, 13 1-35, 145, 247-51,
413, 437, 567-68; production schedules
(Jan. 194z), 247; standardization, 107-8;
types (US., Dec. 1941). rap-10; types
sold to foreign states, 129. See also Pro-
duction.
Aircraft Production, Bur. of, 9
Aircraft Production, Ministry of. See
Aircraft Production Board, 5,7
Aircraft Warning Bn., ~ ~ 7 t h ,192
Aircraft warning service: Alaska, 307-8;
Brit. radar equipment, 28891; early de-
tectors, 287; Panama, 301-3; SWPA,
209, 383-84, 476; in US., 278, 28687,
29-2, 296, 298
Air defense: categories of defense, 277;
England, 622-23; Hawaii, 170-75; Java,
390, 400-401; NEI, 366-402; Philippines,
201-3; system in 1942, 286-93; Western
Hemisphere, 61-69, I 16-26, 151-70, 236,
271-309 (see also specific regions) ;
zones, 295-96
Air Defense: Director of, 292; Director-
ate created, 295
Air Defense Comd., 152-54, 577; crea-
tion, 289; functions, 289, 295
Air Defense Operational Training Unit,
295. See also Fighter Comd.
School.
Britain.
Air Districts, creation of, 153-54
763

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