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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
I N D E X
294, 452; air transport to, 357-59, 361;
bases, 303-7, 357-58, 464-65; danger of
attack, 272; defenses, 166-70, 276, 307-8,
357; Peninsula, 168-69, 464; reinforce-
ments for, 241, 276-77, 3 0 3 3
Alaska Defense Comd., 167-70, 276, 306,
359, 364
Alaskan Air Force, 166, 294, 304. See also
Air Forces, Eleventh AF.
Albrook Field, 162-63
Aldermaston, 648 \
Aleutian Is., 1 2 6 , 168, 294, 303-8, 358,
Alexander, Lt. Col. E. H., 3 3 3
Allahabad, 509, 5 1 2
Allied Air Forces, 433, 448, 478, 481-83;
air service, 421-22; command struc-
ture, 420; organization, 418-26
4447 4527 462-707 5577 643
Altman, Pfc R. A., 2 1 7
Alvarez, Dr. Luis, 293-94
Amberley Field, 227, 230, 376, 422, 424
Amboina, 224, 372, 377, 384, 388, 394, 427
America1 Div., 433
American Airlines, 347, 356
American Expeditionary Force. See Air
American Volunteer Gp., 2 4 , 313. 339-
Service (AEF) .
40, 353; 3959 485-502; first combat, 489;
induction into AAF, 505-6
Anchorage, 126, 166, 168, 3 0 3 , 358, 465
Andal, 5 1 2
Andaman Is., 500, 503
Anderson, Col. 0. A., 472
Andes, 639
Andres, Pvt. Robert, 2 1 2
Andrews, Lt. Gen. F.A., 31-32, 60, 67 n,
Anglo-American chiefs of staff, 241-43,
559, 595. See also Combined Chiefs.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 320, 3 2 3
Anginagssalik, 344
Antiaircraft artillery, 152-53, 283-85, 296,
299; Caribbean, 162; Hawaii, 171-72;
Panama, 301; Philippines, 187, 2 2 0
70, 160, 165, 579
Anti-Cornintern Pact, 80
Antifriction-bearing targets, 597
Antigua, 1 2 1 , 124, 162, 320, 536
Antilles, 1 2 3 , 319
Antilles Air Task Force, 535-37, 542
Antisubmarine defense, 5 14-53; adminis-
tration, 542; assessments, 533-35; “killer”
system, 548; necd for centralized
comd., 544; operations, 526-37; policy,
538; strength, 536; type of aircraft, 525,
536-37. See also AAF Antisub. Comd.;
Commands, I Bomber.
765
Air Ministry (Brit.), 15, 2 0 , 25, 37, 92-
93, 5 0 3 , 577-80, 5 9 , 5959 62P-32, 636
Airport Development Program, 3 2 I
Air raid alerts: Boston, 280; Los Angeles,
279, 283-86; New York, 279; Oakland,
278; San Francisco, 278-79
Air Search Gp., 465
Air Service (AET),10-16, 33-37,43, 597-
98; Chief, 1 0 - 1 1 , 26; created, 10; re-
organization, I I
Air Service (US.Army), 3-29, 44-45,
54-58; created, 9, 2 3 ; Director, 9; mis-
sion, 45; Office of Chief, 2 2 ; strength,
24. 26
Air Service Comd., 337, 347, 355, 364;
Contract Air Corps Div., 36-62; for-
merly AC Maintenance Comd., 360; in
air transport, 355-56, 358, 360-62
Air Service Tactical School, 45, 598. See
also ACTS.
Air Staff (AAF Hq.), 134, 144, 185, 236,
538-40, 558-62, 679, 602-3, 616, 630;
Chief, 2 5 1 , 2 5 7 , 2 6 2 , 267
Air support commands, origin and func-
tions, 1 5 5
Air-to-surface-vessel radar: development
by Britain, 289; in Alaska, 308; lack
in US., 291-92; in Panama, 3 0 1 - 2 ; use
in antisub. warfare, 547, 549
Air transport: by Air Corps Ferrying
by Air Transport Comd., 362-63; by
civilian airlines, 323-25, 34760, 498;
distinction between air transport and
ferrying, 34p-51, 363, 507 n; impor-
tance, 350-52, 363; principal air routes,
3 1 0 - 1 2 ; survey flights, 326, 3 3 1 , 347-48.
See also specific air forces and areas.
246, 249-507 2 6 2 , 264-669 273, 430, 489,
Comd., 317-18, 325-28, 347, 350, 353-54;
Air Transport Assoc., 3 5 1
Air Transportation Div. (ATC), 363
Air Transport Comd., 3 1 3 , 334, 349, 362-
65, 495, 508; creation, 349, 356, 362;
mission, 362-63; organized into divs.
and wings, 363; overseas jurisdiction,
365; strength, 363-64; Troop Carrier
Comd. teniporarily designated ATC,
360, 362. See also ACFC.
Air War Plans Div., 1 3 1 , 146, 265, 273,
56% 5997 614
Akebono Maru, 458
Akutan I., 467
Alameda Naval Air Station, 440
Alaska, 66, 124-26, 147, 16670, 190, 193,
Aka@, 458
Akyab, 4929 499

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