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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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Bomber offensive: diversion from, 574,
6 j4; organization and command, 575;
plans for, 240, 557-611, 656, 668;
principles of control, 575; strategy
launched, 564; targets, 565
Bombsight types, 439, 598-99, 601
Borabora, 436
Borinquen Field, 329; “battle of,” 275-76
Rostock, Vice Marshal W.D., 420
Boston (Mass.), 280
Boston (RAF), use by US. units, 640,
Bostrom, Lt. F.P., 2 0 0 , 418
Bougainville, 447-48
Bound, Lt. G.L., 386
Bowles, Dr. EL., 549, 551-52
Bovingdon, 627-28
Bradford, Maj. W.R., 406
Bradley, Maj. Gen. Follett, 161, 530
Brady, Brig. Gen. F.M., 203-4, 377, 388,
Brahniaputra R., 5 1 I
Rrampton Grange, 646
Brandon, Lt. H.N., 2 0 0
Brant, Maj. Gen. G.C., 157
Brazil, 1 2 0 , 124, 240, 299, 319-22, 329-30,
Bremerton, 298
Brereton, Maj. Gen. L.H.: CG FEAF,
176, 182, 184-85, 187-88, 190, 204-9,
225, 229, 23’9 3399 3419 370-71, 377,
395-96, 404; CG MEAF, 510-13; C G
Tenth AF, 484-85, 492-93, 495-96, 500,
5 0 2 - 5 , 507
Brest, 561, 600
Brett, Maj. Gen. G.H.: C/AC, 115, 326-
27, 634-36, 63811; CG USAFIA, 226,
230-31, 331, 3 3 3 ; DC/S ABDA, 370-
71, 386, 388, 391, 395-967 407, 411-12,
Brisbane, 228, 2 3 0 , 372, 376, 384-85, 411-
Bristol, 638
Britain: Air Commission, 3 2 2 ; aircraft
types, 88, 93, 95, 107-9. 320, 382, 410,
432, 479, 596, 604, 634; Atlantic ferry-
ing organization, 313-14, .317; base-
destroyer exchange, 121; chiefs of staff,
374, 561, 571-93; Chiefs of Staff Comm.,
252-53,578,588; collaboration with US.
planners, 130, 135-so1 234-67, 410, 557-
668; co-operation with AAF in CBI,
226, 371, 488-96, 499, 503-4; co-opera-
tion in SWPA, 18-81, 184, 189, 2 1 3 ,
Borneo, 2 3 2 , 372, 376-78, 380, 388, 394
658
3957 484, 492, 4953 499
3 5 5
4191 421-227 4849 492
12’ 4229 4357 483
136, 139, 142-447 2327 237-38, 252, 3677
768
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
223, 366-483; defense in Battle of,
92-100; divergence of opinion with
AAF on employment of bombers, 591-
61I , 655, 662-63; establishment of
Eighth AF in UK, 612-53; Expedi-
tionary Force, 90, 94, 592; Fleet, 138,
367; Joint Directif, 608-10; Joint Intel-
ligence Comm., 256; Joint Planning
Staff, 144; Joint Staff Mission, 252-53,
266, 577; intelligence, 5 3 1 , 600, 623-24,
651; labor, 632, 650; lend-lease aid, 1 0 3 ,
634; Ministry of Aircraft Production,
314, 632, 636-37, 639; Ministry of War
Transport, 256; Purchasing Commis-
sion, 129; review of strategy, 594; in
submarine war, 514-15; transport and
ferrying, 313-17, 3 2 0 , 342; Under Sec.
of State for Air, 1 3 3 ; War Cabinet,
1 3 2 ; in World War I, 6-8, 12-16, 76.
See also Air Ministry; Fleet Air Arm;
RAF.
127-35.,2367 2457 314, 318-19, 337-387
British Columbia, 298
British Guiana, 121, 124, 162, 193, 320,
3297 536
Brooke, Gen. Sir Alan, 2 5 3
Broome, 399
Brown, Lt. H.M., 199
Brown, Col. R.R., 508
BR Task Force, 560-61, 613
Buckner, Brig. Gen. S.B., Jr., 167, 276,
Buddicum shops, 663-64
Budget, Bur. of, 29, 57, 2 6 2
Buin, 448
Buitenzorg, 392
Buns, 449, 483
Burma, 232-33, 241,244, 339, 367, 371, 388,
395-973 47’9 488-907 492-953 497-5039
quest, 485
464
508, 5 1 0 , 561; evacuation, 502; Jap con-
Burma Road, 244-45, 485-86, 488-90, 499
Burnett, Sir Charles, 2 3 0
Burrows, Col. P.E., 337
Burton-on-Trent, 638
Burtonwood, 63637, 639, 650-51
Bushey Hall, 646
Bushy Park, 645, 648
Butler, Brig. Gen. W.O., 307, 464
C
C-39, air transport to Labrador, 347
C-47: characteristics, 502; in China, 499;
flight to UK, 347, 641-45

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