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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. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
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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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