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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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“Pacific Ocean”16 pages

  • p. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
  • p. 242 …O R+ POI NT HAWAIIAN I SLA PACIFIC OCEAN 196 o w s U I DS
  • p. 322 …any one of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
  • p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s statement that “the broad oceans which have…
  • p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
  • p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance of…
  • p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
  • p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
  • p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
  • p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air strength for the Pacific, to…
  • p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry (London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of Information covering the organization…
  • p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
  • p. 797 …This action was to be co-ordinated with an operation in the South Pacific against Tulagi…
  • p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command, High Wycombe Prime Minister Pacific Ocean Area New Caledonia Task Force Plan…
  • p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India-China Ferry, organization, 508 Indian Ocean, 33…
  • p. 856 …I , 432, 477 Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236, 272-73 Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
ANZAC, 413
Aparri, 215, 2 1 ~ 2 0
AQUILA, FORCE, 493
Arafura Sea, 414
ARCADIA conference, 237-46, 248, 252-
5 5 , 265, 267, 281, 310, 312, 342, 367,
372, 492, 5 5 9 - 6 2 , 565, 612
Archerfield, 227, 230, 376, 414, 422, 432
Argentia, 142, 156
ArmCe de 1’Air. See French Air Force.
Armstrong, Col. F. A., Jr., 626, 660
Army, First (1918), 13-14
Army Air Corps: Chief of, 31-32, 48, 50,
59, 63, 115, 129, 176-77, 260, 314, 316,
326, 598 (see also Arnold; Brett; Fou-
lois; Patrick; Westover) ; expansion,
104-16; mission, 45, 47-52, 63, 67-68,
105, 114, 138; Office of Chief, 2 2 , 3 2 ,
46, 489 50, 531 55, 63, 1149 146, 250,
264; strength, 104-16
Army Air Force in Great Britain, 615,
618; CG, 615
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Coind.:
established, 537, 552; genesis, 519, 538-
53; mission, 5 5 2 ; strength, 537
Army Air Forces Headquarters, 50, 170,
178, 182, 186, 238, 265, 292, 347, 384,
582, 616, 645, 652-53, 663. See also Air
Staff; Hq. offices.
Ammy Air Forces organization, 18-33; as
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7;
as Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4;
as Air Service (US. Army), 4, 9,
23; as Air Corps, 29; GHQ Air Force
created, 31; established as AAF, 1 1 5 ,
260; Air Force Combat Comd. created,
1 1 5 ; reorganization of 9 Mar. 1942, 264-
65, 579; mission, 151-52, 155-56, 158,
161, 264, 267, 342, 576. See also Air
Forces.
Army Airways Communications System,
‘559 ‘57, 169
Army Ground Forces established, 264
Army Regulation 95-5 ( 2 0 June 1941),
146, 260, 2 6 5 , 267
Army Reorganization Act of 1920, 23-24
Army Service Forces, 264. See also Serv-
Army War College, 33, 351
Arnold, Lt. Gen. H.H., 114-15, 133-34,
5 1 , 253, 260-65, 289, 292-93, 314, 318,
439, 481, 507, 526, 538-41, 546, 55% 5 5 2 -
4253 4289 430-3’1 454, 496, 539-537 575,
ices of Supply.
141-42, 146, 150, 159, 17% 1939 248, 2 5 0 -
321-22, 3271 359, 361-65, 430-3’3 4371
539 5599 562, 5671 573-76 57W’r 594359
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
601-3, 605, 607, 612, 617-18, 623, 627,
63*311 635-379 643, 646, 652, 463;
Deputy Chief of Staff, 114-15, 253, 259,
2 6 5 ; influence, 260, 265-67. See also
Army Air Corps, Chief.
Arnold, Lt. Col. M. W., 348
“Arnold line,” 318
Arnold-Portal agreement, 248-49, 566
Arnold-Towers-Portal agreement, 5673
Aruba, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Asansol, 498, 500
Ascension I., 319-20, 329-30
Ashigara, z 16
Asiatic Fleet (US.), 138, 184, 366-67,
569
3 70
Assam, 329, 497-98, 507, 5 1 1
Assam-Burma-China Ferry, 498, 508
Atcliam, 643, 657
Atka, 467
Atkinson, Capt. Gwen, 497
Atkinson Field, 329
Atlantic, Battle of, 514-53
Atlantic Airways, Ltd., 320-23
Atlantic Charter, 142
Atlantic conference, 141, 150, 235, 252,
Attu, 462, 469
Augsburg, 596
2 6 5 , 594
Australia, 1 2 5 , 243, 423, 43-33? 436-37,
561; air deliveries to, 327-33, 336, 359;
air service, 421-23, 482-83; chiefs of
staff, 231; defense, 403-26; defense of
NEI, 366-402; Dept. of Aircraft Pro-
duction, 422; Directorate of Air Trans-
in reinforcement of Philippines, 178-
231; 7th Div., 472; withdrawal to, 220-
33. See also Allied Air Forces; RAAF;
SWPA.
4473 449-50.. 45f9 47’9 478-847 4927 4947
port, forces, 419, 477,; labor, 483;
Austrian Air Force, 89
Aviation Act of 1914, 2 3
Aviation Act of 1917, 6, 2 5
Aviation Cadet Center, 113
Aviation Objective, First, 105
Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4-12, 23,
Aviation strength, First and Second, 2 5 0
AWPD/I, 131-32, 146-47, 150, 236, 246-
34; strength, 6-7
479 z50i 266, 5597 f65r 573-749 58% 594-
95, 599--600, 603-6, 630
AWPD/2, 133-34
AWPD/4, 236, 246
Azores, 326
Ayr, 3 18

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