“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
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