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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. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial air force.” For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
  • p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force faced no real opposition…
  • p. 121 …The hope was not fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly came to…
  • p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
  • p. 197 …naval forces, and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian naval, air, and ground…
  • p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to the Chinese Air Force. Known…
  • p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
  • p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power. 9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in special file of Brig…
  • p. 805 …History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
  • p. 851 …E S Italian Air Force: 82-85; development, Italian East Africa, 84 Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
  • p. 857 …See Italian Air Force. Reinforcements. See theaters. Renault works, 593 Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
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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