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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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