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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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
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