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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. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial air force.” For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
  • p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force faced no real opposition…
  • p. 121 …The hope was not fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly came to…
  • p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
  • p. 197 …naval forces, and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian naval, air, and ground…
  • p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to the Chinese Air Force. Known…
  • p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
  • p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power. 9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in special file of Brig…
  • p. 805 …History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
  • p. 851 …E S Italian Air Force: 82-85; development, Italian East Africa, 84 Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
  • p. 857 …See Italian Air Force. Reinforcements. See theaters. Renault works, 593 Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
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Commerce, Dept. of, 29, 55
Committee to Defend America by Aid-
ing the Allies, 127
Communications, 55, 1 5 2 , 155-59, 169,
186, 188, 242, 344-48, 419, 423, 447, 476,
494, 7 1 1 , 625-26, 644-45. See also
Radar:
Composite group, defined, 156 n
Cone. Capt. R.A.. 465. . -
Connally,'Lt. J.B., 205 n, 381
Connell, Col. Carl, 482
Consolidated Aircraft COT., 280, 359-60
Contract Air Cargo Div. (ASC), 36c-62
Convoys, question of protection, 533,
5459 5 5 2
Coolidge, President, 25, 28
Cooper, Col. M.C., 499
Coral Sea. Battle of, 444-51, 471, 480-83
COTS: I (1918), 13; V, 240
corps areas, air relations with, 31-32
Corregidor, 186, 203, 2 2 3 , 225, 366, 388,
Costa Rica, 1 2 5
Council of National Defense, 7
Cousland, Lt. Col. C.W., 656
Cowdray Air Board, 7
Crimmins, Lt. Fred, 2 1 2
Crowell mission, 23-24
CRYSTAL weather stations, 345-47
Cuba, 3 2 1 , 534
CuraGao, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Currie, Lauchlin, 486
Curry, Rep. Charles, 29
CUT~~TT,432
Curtiss NBS-4, 58
Curtiss-Wright, 488
Cyrenaica, 341
4049 406-7, 4'7
CUrtiSS xo-35, 59
D
Dains, Lt. J.L.,199
Dakar, 240
Dale, Lt., 467
Daly Waters, 2 3 0 , 385, 422
Danish-U.S. agreement, 122, 343
Darwin, 178-79, 182-84, 222-24, 228, 230-
3 3 , 3 5 3 , 3727 375-77, 385-87, 3 9 - 9 6
407-11, 414-16, 421-249 474-76
Davao, 223-24, 2 3 1 , 376-78, 404%418
Davao Gulf, 2 2 3 , 378
Davidson, Brig. Gen. H.C., 454
Dav-ies, Col. J.H., 224, 230, 414, 418
Davis, Lt. Col. E.S., 169, 277
Davison, Col. Donald, 636
Daylight vs. night bombardment, 59, 5 7 ~ ~
Dayton, 55, 358
DC-3: characteristics, 502; in air trans-
Defense Aid Supply Comm., 1 3 0
De Havilland 4 bomber, 8-10, 57
De Kooy, 659
Del Carmen Field, 186, 203, 2 9 , 2 1 1 , 218,
Delehanty, T/Sgt. W.J., 217
Del Monte, 188-89, 208-11, 214, 21p-20,
Denmark, 90, 1 2 2 , 343, 345
Denpasar airfield, 397
Deployment of air strength, 138-41, 147,
Deshazer, Cpl. Jacob, 4 4 2
Deutsche Lufthansa, 86
DeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.L., 279, 294, 308
Dickman Board, 23-24, 43
Dili, 4!4
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John, 253
Dinjan, 329, 498-502, 505, 507-9, 512
Dive bombing, 457, 461, 598
Dixon, Lt. J.W., 466
Djombang, 384
Doenitz, Adm. Karl, 5 1 5 , 5 3 5
Dolan, Col. W.C., 5 5 1
Dominican Republic, 3 2 I
Donalson, Lt. Jack, z 12
Doolittle, Brig. Gen. J.H., 31, 614
Doolittle raid, 298, 438-44, 451, 498,
Dornier aircraft company, 85
Dorval airport, 344
Dougherty, Lt. J.E., 380
Douglas Aircraft Co., 69
Douhet, Giulio, 35, 43, 51, 82-84, 604
Dow Field, 299, 641, 643 n
Drum, Lt. Gen. H.A., 30, 294, 526,
Drum Board, 3 0 - 3 1 , 47-48, 66-67
Dufrane, Capt. J.L., 386-89
Duke of York, 238
Dum Durn, 500-501
Duncan, Brig. Gen. A.N., 571, 612-14,
Duncan, Col. C.E., 646
Duncan Field, 113
Dunkirk, 90, 94
Dunlop, Capt., 468
Dutch. See Netherlands East Indies.
Dutch Harbor, 126, 168, 303-7, 464-69
Dyes, Cap. W.E., Jr., 405
91-61 I, 663, 667
port, 325, 358, 364, 498-99
2 2 3
223-25, 372, 381, 404-7. 418, 426
151-93. 560-61, 569, 652
506
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