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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. 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 I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Christiansen, H.C., 199
Christmas I., 125, 181, 192-93. 2 2 8 , 359,
43-32, 436-37
Chuchow, 440, 442, 444
Chungking, 78, 438, 497-98, 504
Church, Lt., 219-20
Churchill, Col. L.S., 182
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133,
1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252-539
347, 559-61, 5649 567, .570-733 592
Civil Aeronautics Administration (Au-
thority), 55, 111, 125-26, 168, 304, 321,
352
Civil Aeronautics Board, 352, 361
Civil airlines: in air transport, 350-60;
plans for mobilization, 351-52, 364. See
also airlines by name.
Civil Air Patrol, 527-31, 542
Civilian Defense, Office of, 279, 290, 298
Civil Service Det., 637, 650
Clagett, Brig. Gen. H.B., 182, 222, 225-
Clark Field, 177, 179, 182-83, 186-89, 191,
Clausewitz, 42, 5 1
Clipper transports, 324, 331, 352-56
Cloncurry, 230, 385, 450
Coast Artillery, 289; 6oth, 214; zooth,
187, 214; Chief, 187
Coast watchers, 476
Cochin, 5 x 0
26, 230, 486
201-20, 2 2 3
COCOSI., 124
COCOSIS. (SWPA), 33-31
Coetivy I., 330-31
Cold Bay, 304, 3 0 6 7 , 464-65
Collins, Capt. J.F., Jr., 458
Columbia (S.C.) , 613
Columbia R., 272
Combat crew replacement centers, 627
“Combined,” usage defined, 253
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 234-67, 395-
557-61 I ; established, 253, 265; func-
tions, 254-55? 266. See also Anglo-
American chiefs.
Combined Intelligence Comm., 256
C o m b i n e d Military Transportation
Combined Operations Comd., 590
Combined Planning Staff, 253, 2 5 5 , 266
Combined Secretariat, 257
Combined Shipping Adjustment Board,
Combined Staff Planners, 43 I, 560, 563-
Cologne, 5737 597
969 408, 4197 430, 4349 4361 4449 5129
Comm., 256
256
64, 572
7 7 0
Combs, Maj. C.E., 189, 214-15, 219,
Command and General Staff School, 33
Command and staff exercises, 64
Commanding General, AAF. See Arnold.
Commands (numbered) :
I Air Support Comd., 523, 527-28,
542
I Bomber Comd., 523-53; antisub.
activities, 296; CG, 526, 528;
communications, 528, 544; con-
voys, protection of, 533; Hq.,
526; intelligence, 524, 527; joint
control, 524, 527-28; lessons, 532;
offshore patrols begin, 523; op-
erations, 531, 533; special prob-
lems,. 531-32; strength, 524, 537;
training, 524-26; types of air-
craft, 523-24, 530, 533. 537
I Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
‘55756, 293
111 Air Force Base Comd., 613
111 Air Support Comd., 612-13
4th Antiaircraft Comd., 296
I V Bomber Comd., 296
IV Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
V Bomber Comd., 182-83, 188,
V Interceptor Comd., 182, 186,
VII Bomber Comd., 454-55
VII Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
454-55
Vl’lI Air Force Base Comd.: Hq.
ik Hq. Sq., 6x3, 615, 639; redesig-
nated Service Comd., 616
VIII Air Force Composite Comd.,
616, 628, 648
VIII Air Force Service Comd.,
587, 616, 628, 637-38, 648-50;
CG, 648; service areas, 648
VIII Bomber Comd., 567, 587-88,
607-11, 622, 624, 628, 631, 6 4 6
49; first combat for heavies, 660-
66; G-3, 626; Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
613, 615, 639, 656; mission, 607;
wings organized, 633
VIII Ground Air Support Comd.,
587; CG, 646; Hq., 646; mission,
648; redesignated Air Support
Comd., 616
VIII hterceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
349, 587; Hq. & Hq. Sq., 613,
615-16, 6 9 639, 641-43, 646;
redesignation, 616
378-79
296
210, 378
207, 209, 218, 224-25, 405

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