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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.
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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
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