“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
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