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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.

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  • p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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