Documents / Document

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.

Open the PDF at page 839 Original source ↗

“Italian Air Force”14 pages

  • 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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Air doctrine, development, 33-53, 60, 63,
Airfields: in Africa, 320-21, 3 2 9 - 3 0 ;
Alaska, 125-26, 168-69,303-7, 357-58,
464-65; British Isles, 344,346 (see also
Air Force, Eighth AF); Canada, 1 2 1 ,
343, 345-47, 357; Caribbean, 1 2 1 , 1 2 3 ,
440, 444,
511-12; Central Pacific, 125, 174-75,
178; Greenland, 1 2 2 , 342-47; Iceland,
122-23, 158-60,344,346;Latin America,
124-25, 3 0 1 , 319-21,329; need for
forward bases, 5 3 , 102, 120-26, 241-
42; need for more U.S. bases, 1 1 1 - 1 3 ;
Panama, 162-63,3 0 2 ; Philippines, 125,
179,186-88, 406-7; South Pacific, 180-
81, 192-93,228-29, 437, 469; SWPA,
483. See also fields by name.
Air Force Combat Comd., 1 1 2 , 155, 159,
2 5 0 , 260, 294, 316,350; abolished, 264;
CG, 1 1 5 , 560, 613;control of Eighth
AF, 613;crcated, I I ~ ;Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
615
67-70,5657 597
162, 299. 3 1 9 - 2 1 , 329;
1787 184,'93. 371-727 376, 39-91, 423,
Air Forces (numbered) :
First Air Force, 5 2 3 , 542, 546; aid
to Eighth AF, 613; air defense
responsibility, I 56, I 58, 294-96;
assigned to Eastern Theater of
Operations, 264, 294; CG, 5 3 0 ;
creation, 154;reassigned to AAF,
295. See also Antisub. defense;
I Bomber Comd.
Second Air Force: in air defense,
278,294,299;creation, 154;O T U
units, 617; reinforcements to
Pacific, 455; as training agency,
2647 294
Third Air Force: aid to Eighth
AF, 613-17,648; in air defense,
294;creation, 154;staging opera-
tions, 333; as training agency,
264,294;units in antisub. patrol,
5 3 0 7 542
Fourth Air Force: in air defense,
278, 281, 284, 294-96, 299; as-
signed to WDC, 264, 294; crea-
tion, 154;ferrying planes to Ha-
waii, 172;reassigned to AAF, 295;
training for Alaska flights, 304
Fifth Air Force, Eighth AF so
designated initially, 612.See also
FEAF.
Sixth Air Force. See Caribbean AF.
Seventh Air Force: in Battle of
Midway, 452-62; designated, 452.
See also Hawaiian AF.
764
Eighth Air Force: accident ratio,
645;air defense of UK, 584,622-
2 3 ; airfields in UK, 620,62633,
649;assigned to ETOUSA, 649;
at Bolling Field, 587; bombing
accuracy, 656,663-64; CG, 570,
587-88,612,616;communications,
625-26; deficiencies, 656-57; de-
pots in UK, 635-38,650; diver-
sions, 299, 574, 607, 614,616,
628, 641-43, 654; establishment
in UK, 576,587-91, 612-54;first
heavy unit complete, 655;Hq. in
UK, 645; Hq. & Hq. Sq., 613,
615, 639; intelligence, 623-24;
logistics, 620-2I , 628-39, 648-52,
667; maintenance, 633-38, 648;
mission, 575, 607; nucleus for
AAFIB, 615; operations, 591,
655-68; organizational scheme,
620,633;origin, 612-13;overseas
movement, 347-49, 639-45; pat-
tern for RAF collaboration, 622;
relations with RAF, 618-37,651;
relations with SOS, 649-52; re-
placements, 627-28, 645; short-
ages, 61617; Staging Area
Comd., 640; storage space, 638;
strength, 526 n, 612-13,615,652-
5 3 ; summary of activities, 651,
658-59, 664-65; target selection,
548 n, 597,621-22,624; training,
613-14,616-17,620,626-29,640,
648, 651, 653, 655-58, 66-61;
training comd. established, 628;
training manual, 626;transporta-
tion, 651;use of RAF Spitfires,
566,643,646,657;weather serv-
ices, 625, 639; wings, 633, 646,
648
Ninth Air Force, 206 n; organized,
341, 493 n; transport and ferry
services, 3 I 2-r 3, 340-41
Tenth Air Force, 492-502; A-3,
497;creation, 484-85;Hq. & Hq.
Sq., 494; mission and command
problems in CBI, 502-10; opera-
tions, 500-502, 509-10; reinforce-
ments,. 336, 339-40; supply, 496,
508; airlines to, 312-13, 340, 354,
497-98,508,5 1 1 - 1 3 . See also CBI.
Eleventh Air Force: chain of com-
mand, 308; designated, 307;
strength (~gqz), 307. See also
Alaskan AF.
Twelfth Air Force: creation, 588,
654;replacements, 645

Cited by

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 863 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.