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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
I N D E X
B
B-10, development, 5 5 , 60
B-15, X model, 6 6 6 7 , 119
B-17: characteristics, 61, 68, 88, rrpzo,
5 2 , 481, 574, 600-601, 655, 66~-65; de-
velopment, 66-67; as escort plane, 604;
first delivery, 66; mass flight to Hawaii,
172-73; mass flight to UK, 641-45; test
( r g j f ) , 53; test against attacking ves-
sels, 457; as transport plane, 493; un-
successful test by RAF, 600-604, 655
B-19, X model, 69
B-24: characteristics, 327, 462, 574, 600-
604, 6 6 2 ; for air transport, 326, 350,
352; chief reliance in antisub. work,
537, 549, 5 5 2 ; delivery to Navy, 5 5 1 ;
development, 66; as escort plane, 604.
See also LB-30.
B-25: characteristics, 478; choice for
Tokyo raid, 439, 444; lend-lease to
U.S.S.R., 338
1919 389, 400-4017 417, 4509 45657, 461-
B-26, combat in Pacific, 414, 458, 465
B-29, development, 66, 71, 108
Backus, Capt. E. N., 390, 394
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro, 83
Baguio, 207
Bahama Is., 121, 124, 162
Baker, Sec. of War N.D., 24, 31, 43
Baker, Noel, 95 n
Baker Board, 2 2 , 3-32, 47-48, 67
Balfour, Capt. H. H., 133
Balikpapan, 377, 382
Ballarat, 422
Bandjermasin, 377
Baffin 1 . 7 ' 5 5 7 345-47
Bah 372, 386, 391927 3947 402, 474
Bandoeng, 368, 371, 395
Bangalore, 223, 331, 333, 509
Bangkok, 492
Bangor, 523
Barksdale Field, 31, 530
Barling bomber, 58
Barnes, Maj. Gen. J.F., 226, 371, 388, 396,
Barnham, 650
Barr, Lt. George, 442
Barrackpore, 5 I
Barrage balloons, 1 5 2 , 2 9 9
Basra, 326, 329, 338
Bataan, 209, 2 1 2 , 218, 223-25, 233, 366,
Bataan Field Flying Det., 405
Batangas, 186, 191, 203, 219
Batavia, 231, 371, 384, 391, 397
4119 420
4 0 4 4
Batchelor Field, 222-24, 407, 426
Bathurst (Gambia), 320, 322, 324
Bathurst I., 393
Bay, WO J.E., 405
Bayse, Maj. W. E., 380, 506
Bean, Lt. J.M., 2 1 6 1 7
Beaverbrook, Lord, 133, 578
Beechcraft, 385, 406
Belem, 320-22, 324, 329-30, 332, 336
Belfast, 240, 648
Belgian Congo, 324, 33'4 355
Bellows Field, 171, 198-99
Bengal, 498
Bengal, Bay of, 494, 499, 502-3, 5 1 0
Berlin, Pact of. See Tripartite Pact.
Bermuda, 1 2 1 , 162, 294, 326
Bhamo, 500
Biscay, Bay of, 514
Bishop, S. W., 199
Bismarck Archipelago, 382, 403-4, 447
Bissell, Lt. Col. C. L., 146
BLACK, JPB, 2.40
Blarney, Gen. Sir Thomas, 419
Blimbing, 384, 386
Bloemfontern, 227, 1 3 2
Blomberg, Gen. Werner von, 87-88
BLUIE EAST 2, 345
BLUIE W E S T I , 343-46, 641-44
BLUIE WEST 8, 343-47, 641, 644
Boeing Aircraft Co., 65-66, 280
BOLERO, 5649 566, 570, 574-761 5877
Bohol, 406
589, 595, 607, 652-53; committees, 564;
first air movement completed, 644
Bolling, Col. R.C., 8
Bolling Field, 318, 326, 328, 616, 625
Bombardment (textbook), 45
Bombardment aviation: accuracy, 603-5,
656, 663; as compared to ocher types,
36-37, 41, 64, 7-71.;. development of
weapon, 53-71; precision vs. area, 5 9 6
99; research in techniques, 604-5; size
of units as compared with RAF, 631;
strategic employment, 46-53, 60, 65,
592, 595-99, 615, 666-68; training, 605;
trial in NEI, 400-402. See also Air
doctrine; Bomber offensive; Day-
light.
Bombardment Board, 55, 59
Bombay, 5 1 0
Bomber Comd. (Army Air Force in
Great Britain), 618. See also Com-
mands, VIII Bomber.
Bomber commands, origin and functions,
' 5 5
Bomber Command Shadow Staff, 617
767

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