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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 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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