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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
I N D E X
Fort Hertz, 502
Fort Lamy, 3 2 0
Fort Mears, 466-57
Fort Myers, 341
Fort Nelson, 277
Fort Randall, 465-66, 468
Fortress. See B-17.
Fort Richardson, 464
Fort Santiago, 204
Fort Stotsenburg, z 10
Foulois, Maj. Gen. B.D., 10, 2 1 , 63
France: Air Div., 14; High Commission,
433-34; lend-lease, 129; World War 1,
5-6, 1-14; World War 11, 76, 90, 330,
563-64, 571, 592, 663. See also Free
French; French Air Force.
France Field, 162-63
Frank, Maj. Gen. W.H., 50; CG VIII
Frankfurt, 26
Fredendall, Maj. Gen. L.R., 612
Free French, 180-81, 432-33
Freeman, ACM Sir Wilfred, 602
Freerks, Lt. M.C., 468
Freetown, 320, 494
Fremantle, 396-98, 484
French Air Force, 90-91
French Equatorial Africa, 320, 3 3 0
French Indo-China, I 89
French Northwest Africa, 240
Frobisher Bay, 346
Fry, Col. R.L., 422
AFSC, 648-50; CG Third AF, 648
G
G-3 (WDGS), 146
G-4 (WDGS), 256
Galapagos IS., 124, 301-2
Galliene, Lt. W.H., 394
Galveston, 5 3 I
Gambia, 3 2 0
Gambonini, Lt. P.B., 387
Gander Lake, 122, 318, 342-43, 345, 348,
Ganges R., 5 1 1
Garfield, 192
Gasmata, 414, 472
Gates, Lt. Col. B.E., 262
Gatty, Harold, 424
Geclong, 4 2 2
General Headquarters ( W D ) , 141, 258-
62; abolished, 264; proposed, 20, 26, 63;
relationship to AAF, 261
General Headquarters Air Force, 23, 49-
260, 5 2 1 , 599; CG, 3 1 - 1 2 , 68, 70; estab-
645
5 1 , 63-64, 69-70? 1 1 5 9 119, 152-547 2 5 %
lished, 31, 47, 67; mission, 67-68, 1 1 2 ,
114; proposed, 30, 43, 45-48; wings, 3 1
General Headquarters Air Force (Prov.),
64
General Staff ( W D ) , 6, 8, 18, 2 0 - 1 1 , 24,
26-32, 3 5 , 43, 45, 49, 5 3 , 65-69, 1 1 5 7 1467
173-74, 232, 256, 259, 262, 264, 563, 5%
586. See also Chief of Staff; WDGS
divs. by name.
George, Brig. Gen. H.H., 207, 225, 405,
407,418
George, Maj. Gen. H.L., 50, 146, 336,
349, 365, $41
German Air Force, 85-92, 95-97, 99;
aircraft types, 88-89, 95. 122; develop-
ment, 75-76; mission, 88; organization,
05; strength, 86, 89, 94
Germany: Air illinistry, 87; as first pri-
oritv target, 2!8, 410, 559; Defense
hlinistry, 88; High Command, 99, 5 1 5 ;
Ministry of Transport, 86; Supreme
Military Staff, 88
Gerow, Brig. Gen. L.T., 2 3 2
Ghormley, Vice Adm. R.L., 473, 594
Gilbert Is.. 189
Giles, Col. B.F., 157, 349
Glover, Lt. J.G., 393
Goering, Hermann, 5 1 , 86-87, 99, 603
Gold Coast Colony, 3 2 0 , 331
Good Hope, Cape of, 494
Goose Bay, 343-44, 356, 43G48, 641, 644
Grady, H.F., 496, 5 1 0
Grafton Underwood, 631, 640, 661
Great Falls, 358
Green, Maj. Gen. J.A., 187
Greening, Capt. C.R., 439
Greenland, 1 2 0 , 122-24, 155, 157-58, 193,
Greenland Base Comd., 157, 349
Grenier Field, 641-43
Griffith, Maj. J.L., 658
Ground controlled interception radar,
Groups:
342-457 347-48, 3 5 6 361, 6-41-44
288, 2 9 1
1st Ferrying Gp., 340, 494, 507
1st Pursuit Gp., 278, 299, 615, 639-
1st Sea-Search Attack Gp., 550
rd Air Depot Gp., 615, 639-40
2d Bomb. Gp., 59, 526
3d Air Depot Gp., 394, 508
3d Bomb. Gp., 414, 425, 480
4th Air Depot Gp., 422
4th Composite Gp., Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
4th Fighter Gp., 657
43. 646
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