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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. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for writing and publishing a seven…
  • p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
  • p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a historian in accordance with the President…
  • p. 10 …After returning to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the pressure of a…
  • p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
  • p. 12 …But, in developing a system of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu- ments” received…
  • p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended for its support upon men…
  • p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
  • p. 15 …close of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per- sonnel for the…
  • p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
  • p. 19 …Air Service Command, USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF. Finally there remains something to be told…
  • p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel Paul has…
  • p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942 HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942 HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
  • p. 45 …and his inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields, to-and over-the…
  • p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters. The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
  • p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New York, was acting as a major…
  • p. 205 …The approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
  • p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron of the 28th Composite Group took up…
  • p. 210 …Defense Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
  • p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam Field, and the…
  • p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about a…
  • p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron, and the…
  • p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
  • p. 226 …during a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16 November the military air…
  • p. 230 …The watchers were instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to headquarters of the…
  • p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
  • p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, are also i n…
  • p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
  • p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
  • p. 257 …The Summary of Activi- ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General Brereton…
  • p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter- ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft approaching from…
  • p. 270 …with a tele- phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could be greatly…
  • p. 272 …O n another occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone that its A…
  • p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he 29th of December…
  • p. 281 …mission.” lo* General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin. Though the aim of all operations…
  • p. 288 …the air planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the…
  • p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of such a staff in the event…
  • p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’ responsibility for air force training was limited to…
  • p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in- definite…
  • p. 312 …Gates.lo7 General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen- eral McNair had long…
  • p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct of the war went far…
  • p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
  • p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command included an extensive area of nine western…
  • p. 378 …The headquarters was established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
  • p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
  • p. 405 …into the bases.‘38 Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other interested AAF agencies…
  • p. 425 …was to be maintained between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared, and local commanders…
  • p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of Bandoeng in…
  • p. 434 …the United States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in January became chiefly…
  • p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach- ments-moved to Davao during the first…
  • p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash- ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
  • p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect. T…
  • p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb- ruary, at which time…
  • p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra- lia…
  • p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
  • p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
  • p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron, the 68th, which was…
  • p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart- ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these were…
  • p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
  • p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
E
Eagle Farm, 376
Eagle Sqs., 657
Eaker, Maj. Gen. I.C., 60; C G VIII
Bomber Comd., 560, 565, 575, 584-86,
591, 595, 604-5, 6 7 . 610, 615-30, 636,
638, 641, 651, 656, 658, 662, 665; plan
for AAF in UK, 620-29
Eareckson, Col. W.O., 468
East Anglia, 630-31, 637, 650
East China Sea, 438, 4 4 2
East Coast: defense, 290-96; exposed
position, 273, 277 n
Eastern Air Lines, 3 55-56
Eastern Defense Comd., 264, 2 9 3 , 295-96,
Eastern I., 460
Eastern Sea Frontier, 296, 515, 522, 528.
Eastern Theater of Operations, 294
Econoniic Warfare, Board of, 256
Ecuador, 1 2 5 , 301
Edmonton, 276-77, 358-59
Edsall, 398-99
Educational contracts and orders, 56,
Efate, 436-37
Eglin Field, 439-40
Egypt, 320, 3 3 0 , 56-61
84 Group Program, 105, 1 1 0 , 249-50
Eire, 240
Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. D.D.: Allied
comdr. TORCH, 588; C G ETO, 573,
Chief, WPD, 293, 586
5 2 3 , 528, 546-@
530, 5347 54‘7 547
I 06
589-91, 607, 610, 632, 648-49, 658;
El Alamein, 340
El Fasher, 320, 328
El Geneina, 3 2 0
Elmendorf Field, 166, 169, 303, 465, 468
El Obeid, 320, 328
Elsmore, Maj. R.T., 188, 406
Enmons, Lt. Gen. D.C.: CG AFCC, 1 1 5 ;
CG Hawaiian Dept., 452-55
Endurance flight (19291, 60
Engineering Div. (AS), 55-58
Engineers (Avn.): in Aleutians, 168, 305-
7; 807th, 306; in UK, 650
Enterprise, 172, 440-41, 456, 458-59
Equipment. See Supply.
Eskimonaes, 345
Eubank, Col. E.L., 172, 182, 208, 210,
European Theater of Operations: CG,
Essen, 573
378, 396,420
772
632; established, 589, 632
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
F
Fairbanks, 126, 167, 304, 357-58, 465
Fairchild, Maj. Gen. M.S., 50
Fairfield Air Depot, 5 5
Faktor, Cpl. L.D., 442
Far East Air Force, 176-77. 182-87, 191-
9 2 , 201-3, 206, 209, 2 1 3 , 231, 3 6 6 3703
3771 484
Far East Air Service Comd., 182
Fargo, 357
Farrow. Lt. W.G.. M Z. .
Federal Aviation Commission, 3 0
Ferrying of aircraft: by ACFC, 3 16-20,
British, 313-17, 320, 342; by civil air-
!ines, 3 2 0 - 2 5 ; distinction between ferry-
ing and air transport, 349-51, 363, 507 n;
pioneering flights, 318, 321-22, 326, 3 3 1 ,
344; principal air routes, 310-12
Ferrying Div. (ATC), 363
Field Artillery, 131st (zd Bn.), 381
Field Forces (U.S. Army), CG, 31, 114,
Field Service Regulations, 44-46
54 Group Program, 105, 129-31, 134-35,
Fighter aviation. See Pursuit aviation.
Fighter Command School, 295
Fighter escort, importance in ETO, 600,
Fiji IS., 181, 192, 226-28, 241, 3 3 1 , 3591
Filipmo: pilots, 2 0 3 , 219; agents, 405
Fisher, Maj. W.P., 387
Fisherman’s Lake, 324
FIVE ISLANDS, Task Force, 431, 560,
Fleet Air Arm, 1 3 2 , 541, 566, 590, 593
Fletcher, Rear Adm. F.J., 447-48
Florence (S.C.), 613
Florida I., 447-48, 471
Floyd Bennett Airport, 317
“Flying Tigers.” See American \ 7 ~ l ~ n -
Flying Training Comd., 2 5 0
Foch, Marshal, 15
Footscray, 422
Ford, Rep. Leland, 285
Ford Motor Co., 422
Formosa, 191, 2 0 1 , 203-5, 208-9, 215, 376-
Fort Chimo, 346
Fort Dix, 640
Fort Glenn, 464, 466, 468
Fort Greeley, 464
3’5-37, 339-44, 349; by ATC, 362; by
5 8 2
139
657-58, 663, 665
41q3 413, 430-319 434-377 4477 47‘
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