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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
5th Air Base Gp., 188, 220, 407
5th Air Depot Gp., 639-40
5th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
6th Bomb. Gp., 16;
7th Bomb. Gp., 183, 188, 192, 226,
3323 380-839 385, 412-139 4847 4941
497, 505: 5 ' 2
8th Pursuit Gp., 412, 424-25, 477
9th Bomb. Gp., 163
11th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
13th Bomb. Gp., 526
14th Fighter Gp., 644-46
15th Pursuit Gp., 171
16th Pursuit Gp., 163
Ijth Bomb. Gp., 439, 613-14
18th Pursuit Gp., 171
19th Bomb. Gp., 172-73, 178, 182-
83, 185, 189, 208, 223, 225, 381-
82, 387, 4'2-149 425, 4471 450, 480
20th Air Base Gp., 177
20th Pursuit Gp., 613
22d Bomb. Gp., 414. 425, 447, 479,
23d Air Base Gp., 166, 307
23d Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 492,
24th Pursuit Gp., 182-83, 186, 224,
27th Bomb. Gp., 162
27th Bomb. Gp., 183, 192, 222, 224,
28th Composite Gp., 166, 170, 307
31st Pursuit Gp., 615, 639-43; first
complete US. combat group in
ETO, 643; use of Spitfires, 643,
480-8 I
494-951 505, 5'2
405
226, 23% 3907 394, 414
646, 657
32d Pursuit Gp., 163
35th Air Base Gp., 422
35th Pursuit Gp., 183, 192, 386, 412,
37th Pursuit Gp., 163
38th Bomb. Gp., 414, 433-34
40th Bomb. Gp., 162
43d Bomb. Gp., 413, 526n
45th Bomb. Gp., 526
48th Bomb. Gp., 613
49th Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 412,
51st Air Base Gp., 484
51st Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 484,
52d Pursuit Gp., 613, 643, 646
b t h Transport Gp., 347, 640-43,
64th Troop Carrier Gp., 644, 648
4743 477
4'69 424, 4749476
4949 5 1 2
648
7 74
66th Obsn. Gp., 526-27
68th Obsn. Gp., 613
81% Air Depot Gp., 422
92d Bomb. Gp., 644, 646
96th Bomb. Gp., 526
97th Bomb. Gp., 299, 615, 639-43,
I 24th Obsn. Gp., 5 3 I
128th Obsn. Gp., 531
3 0 1 s Bomb. Gp., 455, 644, 646
303d Bomb. Gp., 455
435th Bomb. Gp., 479-80
Grumman (torpedo plane), 458
Guadalcanal, 433,447, 451, 470-71, 474
Guam, 427
Guatemala, 301
Gulf Sea Frontier, 518, 530-31, 534, 547
Gulf Task Force, $ 3 0 , 542
Gunn, Capt. P.I., 375
Gunnery deficiency, Eighth AF, 656-57
GYMNAST, 240,560,562,571-73, 612-15
646, 660-65
H
Haamstede, 659
Habbaniya, 329, 332, 338
Haiti, 321, 534
Hale, Maj. Gen. W.H., 457, 460
Haleiwa, 171, 199-200
Hallmark, Lt. D.E., 442
IHALPRO. See Halverson Det.
Halsey, Vice Adm. W.F., 440-41
Halverson, Col. H.A., 341, 493
Halverson Det., 341-42, 493, 5 0 5 , 526n
Hamilton Field, 172, 182, 189, 193, 199,
3321 3591 643
Hammer Field, 299, 643 n
Handley-Page bomber, 16, 37, 597
Hangchow, 444
Hansell, Maj. H.S., Jr., 50, 146
Harbord Board, 258
Harding, Lt. Col., N.B., 331
Harding, Pres. W.G., 25-26
Harmon, Maj. Gen. M.F., 257
Harmon Field, 156
Harriman, W.A., 1 3 3 , 578, 634
Harriman mission. See Moscow.
Harris, AM Sir Arthur, 253, 591, 594-95,
610, 622, 665
Harrisburg, 624
Hart, Liddell, 5 1
Hart, Adm. T.C., 191, 214, 370-71
Haruna, 216, 461, 469
Harvey, Maj. A.L., 318
Hastings Field, 329

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