“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 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