“RAF”60+ pages
- p. 12 …T h e term “first narrative,” bor-
rowed from the RAF, was frequently used to describe…
- p. 16 …history would constitute a lifetime assignment-the RAF’s history of
World W a r I…
- p. 47 …being made
up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the
French…
- p. 48 …early 1917.O n 6 June 1918the RAF’s Independent Force had been
established with its…
- p. 53 …Most radical was the independent air force,
usually drawing heavily upon the RAF and its Air…
- p. 114 …I when a
British mission of retired RAF officers and others arrived in Japan to
assist…
- p. 127 …At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain…
- p. 128 …After French surrender on 2 2 June, only the RAF remained
for the Luftwaffe to conquer…
- p. 129 …T h e RAF and the Battle of Britain
The German bombing of Britain in World…
- p. 130 …The RAF retained its autonomy; but, even so, sentiment for
many years, like that in the…
- p. 131 …it was
hoped that the badly ournumbered RAF would be able to hold off
any German…
- p. 132 …By the end of September the RAF had asserred its control of the air
over rhe…
- p. 133 …It will take no credit from the RAF’s outnumbered “few” to sug-
gest that the…
- p. 136 …Operations of the RAF after the fall of 1940 were as widely dis-
persed as were…
- p. 137 …on strategic bombardment, would find in the RAF a stout and under-
standing ally. It is…
- p. 171 …British requirements amounted to
49,385 planes, including first-line strength and wastage for the RAF…
- p. 186 …with fresh data and a familiarity with RAF
experience. Actual authorship of a military document is…
- p. 290 …to
prewar plans, was to join the RAF in the attack on Germany. This
project was…
- p. 338 …Fortunately, the RAF,
magnificently served by such advisers as Robert Watson-Watt,
rapidly went beyond the…
- p. 341 …enjoyed
through the co-operation of the RAF unusual opportunities to com-
pare results with those…
- p. 343 …United States military mission in London, the
RAF offered the services of Robert Watson-Watt, Scientific…
- p. 369 …The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand…
- p. 391 …of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had…
- p. 398 …an
initial mission to participate with the RAF in the bombardment of
Germany. Questions remained regarding…
- p. 404 …air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the…
- p. 553 …of models considered obsolescent for AAF and RAF needs,
and cadres of American pilots and ground…
- p. 555 …were considered obsolescent by the AAF and
RAF) previously allocated to Sweden were released for the…
- p. 556 …in addition to collaboration with a small RAF contingent in
defense of Rangoon, he provided patrol…
- p. 557 …Even when the
enemy after his first experience sought to wipe out the RAF and
A…
- p. 565 …General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a…
- p. 566 …Unable to
challenge seriously the enemy’s supremacy in the air, meager RAF
and A V…
- p. 568 …May, the bombers struck at
Mingaladon, former RAF airdrome near Rangoon which the Japanese
were using…
- p. 570 …fensive efforts between the Tenth and the RAF, and on 1 5 April the
War Department…
- p. 571 …Accordingly, on
24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations
under RAF supervision…
- p. 609 …It also reflected the profound influence exerted by the RAF
Coastal Command on AAF thinking. That…
- p. 610 …Fleet
Air Arm by creating a special RAF command, equipped and trained
for sea search and…
- p. 614 …control in terms comparable to those governing RAF
Coastal Command. Almost from the beginning, the question…
- p. 615 …it had
been the experience of the RAF “that a purely defensive policy only
leads to…
- p. 619 …On the tactical side,
valuable assistance was obtained from an experienced RAF crew
which flew two…
- p. 626 …bomber crews
flying borrowed Bostons in an RAF routine sweep against enemy
airfields." During the seven…
- p. 628 …current allocation of heavy bombers to the RAF.6 N o immediate cut
was contemplated; and…
- p. 630 …was suggested that for the present the RAF
would assume sole responsibility for the air offensive…
- p. 633 …the conduct in co-operation with the
RAF of an offensive against western Europe in 1942…
- p. 634 …T o
the Air Staff, as to RAF Bomber Command, the bomber offensive
had figured as…
- p. 635 …Now that the SLEDGEHAMMERJROUNDUP strategy had
been accepted, the RAF wanted the United States to increase…
- p. 636 …the British desire for reinforcement of the
Middle East; the RAF Coastal Command’s request for…
- p. 637 …I ) allocate to
Great Britain for the RAF and Dominion air forces aircraft according
to an…
- p. 647 …TRIGGER,
a plan to set up in America, with RAF aid, a model air defense sector…
- p. 648 …important fea-
tures were borrowed from the RAF. H e proposed to effect a sharp
cleavage…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 653 …Chaney must provide for their operational control with-
out recourse to the RAF. Chaney’s immediate…
- p. 656 …forces and the RAF, provision must be
made for two chains of command-that of the…
- p. 657 …i.e., Eighth Air
Force = RAF; VIII Bomber Command = RAF Bomber Command) ;
and while it provided…
- p. 659 …Under these conditions, relations with
RAF Bomber Command were more important for the Eighth Air
Force…
- p. 660 …ning for the bomber offensive with the RAF.
Daylight or Dark?
As an argument in favor…
- p. 661 …weapons are the Russian army and the RAF.” 1 5 5
It is significant that this…
- p. 662 …Critics complained of the RAF’s failure to provide adequate close
support for ground operations in…
- p. 663 …Messages from that office cast doubts upon the results of the RAF
bomber offensive and criticized…
- p. 664 …When in 1941 the two air staffs began planning their combined
attack on Germany, the RAF…
- p. 665 …Even before the war, RAF preference had run to night tactics for
strategic bombardment, an attitude…
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