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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. 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…
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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