“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…
I N D E X
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
528
616
771