“RAF”60+ pages
- p. 12 …T h e term “first narrative,” bor-
rowed from the RAF, was frequently used to describe…
- p. 16 …history would constitute a lifetime assignment-the RAF’s history of
World W a r I…
- p. 47 …being made
up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the
French…
- p. 48 …early 1917.O n 6 June 1918the RAF’s Independent Force had been
established with its…
- p. 53 …Most radical was the independent air force,
usually drawing heavily upon the RAF and its Air…
- p. 114 …I when a
British mission of retired RAF officers and others arrived in Japan to
assist…
- p. 127 …At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain…
- p. 128 …After French surrender on 2 2 June, only the RAF remained
for the Luftwaffe to conquer…
- p. 129 …T h e RAF and the Battle of Britain
The German bombing of Britain in World…
- p. 130 …The RAF retained its autonomy; but, even so, sentiment for
many years, like that in the…
- p. 131 …it was
hoped that the badly ournumbered RAF would be able to hold off
any German…
- p. 132 …By the end of September the RAF had asserred its control of the air
over rhe…
- p. 133 …It will take no credit from the RAF’s outnumbered “few” to sug-
gest that the…
- p. 136 …Operations of the RAF after the fall of 1940 were as widely dis-
persed as were…
- p. 137 …on strategic bombardment, would find in the RAF a stout and under-
standing ally. It is…
- p. 171 …British requirements amounted to
49,385 planes, including first-line strength and wastage for the RAF…
- p. 186 …with fresh data and a familiarity with RAF
experience. Actual authorship of a military document is…
- p. 290 …to
prewar plans, was to join the RAF in the attack on Germany. This
project was…
- p. 338 …Fortunately, the RAF,
magnificently served by such advisers as Robert Watson-Watt,
rapidly went beyond the…
- p. 341 …enjoyed
through the co-operation of the RAF unusual opportunities to com-
pare results with those…
- p. 343 …United States military mission in London, the
RAF offered the services of Robert Watson-Watt, Scientific…
- p. 369 …The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand…
- p. 391 …of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had…
- p. 398 …an
initial mission to participate with the RAF in the bombardment of
Germany. Questions remained regarding…
- p. 404 …air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the…
- p. 553 …of models considered obsolescent for AAF and RAF needs,
and cadres of American pilots and ground…
- p. 555 …were considered obsolescent by the AAF and
RAF) previously allocated to Sweden were released for the…
- p. 556 …in addition to collaboration with a small RAF contingent in
defense of Rangoon, he provided patrol…
- p. 557 …Even when the
enemy after his first experience sought to wipe out the RAF and
A…
- p. 565 …General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a…
- p. 566 …Unable to
challenge seriously the enemy’s supremacy in the air, meager RAF
and A V…
- p. 568 …May, the bombers struck at
Mingaladon, former RAF airdrome near Rangoon which the Japanese
were using…
- p. 570 …fensive efforts between the Tenth and the RAF, and on 1 5 April the
War Department…
- p. 571 …Accordingly, on
24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations
under RAF supervision…
- p. 609 …It also reflected the profound influence exerted by the RAF
Coastal Command on AAF thinking. That…
- p. 610 …Fleet
Air Arm by creating a special RAF command, equipped and trained
for sea search and…
- p. 614 …control in terms comparable to those governing RAF
Coastal Command. Almost from the beginning, the question…
- p. 615 …it had
been the experience of the RAF “that a purely defensive policy only
leads to…
- p. 619 …On the tactical side,
valuable assistance was obtained from an experienced RAF crew
which flew two…
- p. 626 …bomber crews
flying borrowed Bostons in an RAF routine sweep against enemy
airfields." During the seven…
- p. 628 …current allocation of heavy bombers to the RAF.6 N o immediate cut
was contemplated; and…
- p. 630 …was suggested that for the present the RAF
would assume sole responsibility for the air offensive…
- p. 633 …the conduct in co-operation with the
RAF of an offensive against western Europe in 1942…
- p. 634 …T o
the Air Staff, as to RAF Bomber Command, the bomber offensive
had figured as…
- p. 635 …Now that the SLEDGEHAMMERJROUNDUP strategy had
been accepted, the RAF wanted the United States to increase…
- p. 636 …the British desire for reinforcement of the
Middle East; the RAF Coastal Command’s request for…
- p. 637 …I ) allocate to
Great Britain for the RAF and Dominion air forces aircraft according
to an…
- p. 647 …TRIGGER,
a plan to set up in America, with RAF aid, a model air defense sector…
- p. 648 …important fea-
tures were borrowed from the RAF. H e proposed to effect a sharp
cleavage…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 653 …Chaney must provide for their operational control with-
out recourse to the RAF. Chaney’s immediate…
- p. 656 …forces and the RAF, provision must be
made for two chains of command-that of the…
- p. 657 …i.e., Eighth Air
Force = RAF; VIII Bomber Command = RAF Bomber Command) ;
and while it provided…
- p. 659 …Under these conditions, relations with
RAF Bomber Command were more important for the Eighth Air
Force…
- p. 660 …ning for the bomber offensive with the RAF.
Daylight or Dark?
As an argument in favor…
- p. 661 …weapons are the Russian army and the RAF.” 1 5 5
It is significant that this…
- p. 662 …Critics complained of the RAF’s failure to provide adequate close
support for ground operations in…
- p. 663 …Messages from that office cast doubts upon the results of the RAF
bomber offensive and criticized…
- p. 664 …When in 1941 the two air staffs began planning their combined
attack on Germany, the RAF…
- p. 665 …Even before the war, RAF preference had run to night tactics for
strategic bombardment, an attitude…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Italian Air Force: 82-85; development,
Italian East Africa, 84
Italy, Air Ministry, 82-83
75-76; strength (194o), 84; test, 83
J
Jaluit, 189
Jamaica, 1 2 1 , 124, 162, 319
Japan: Air Flotillas, 376-77, 382-83;
Army Air Force, 77, 79; Carrier Div.
Five, 448, 451; Combined Fleet, 446;
11th Air Fleet, 2 0 1 , 376-77; Fifth
Army, 2 0 1 ; 1st Air Fleet, 195, 198;
Genzan Air Gp., 447; High Command,
81; Inspector General of Military Avn.,
77; mandated islands, 179-80, 189, 192;
Navy Air Force, 77; zd Air Fleet, 466;
Second Fleet, 2 2 3 , 376-77, 382; strategy,
80-81, 234-35, 444-46, 470; Third Fleet,
201, 215-16, 376, 397, 470
Japanese air power, 75-81; aircraft types
and designation, 79-80; German influ-
ence, 80; intelligence, 441; strength,
8-81; tactics, 403; training, 76-77
Java, 368, 370-72, 484; bombing opera-
tions from, 376-84; campaign, 388-94.
404, 411, 413, 427, 450; evacuation of,
394-402; pursuit reinforcements, 384-
88
Java Sea, 388, 391, 402
Jensen, Capt. J.C., 334
Jogjakarta, 372, 382, 395, 399
Johnson, r92
Johnson, Maj. Gen. Davenport, 165
Johnson I., 1 2 5
“Joint,” usage defined, 2 5 3
Joint Action of the Army and Navy, 48,
Joint Aircraft Comm., 1 2 ~ 3 0 , .257
Joint American/British Directlf, 608-10
Joint Board of the Army and Navy,
US., 26, 33, 48, 5 3 , 67, 71, 141, 144-46,
168, 2409 2 5 2 , 3043 594
Joint Board Estimate of US. Over-All
Production Requirements, 1 3 I, 145, 150,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, US.,139, 142-43,
473-74, 557-61 I ; ancillary committees,
266; organization, 254-55
50, 6811, 118-19, 520-21, 528, 540
428, 594
2 3 2 , 234-677 367, 3747. 4107 4197 436-37,
Joint Intelligence Comm., U.S., 256
Joint Organization a i d Maintenance
Joint Planning Comm., U.S.-Brit., 253,
(US.), 629, 636
432
7 76
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Joint Planning Staff, US., 255, 437
Joint Secretariat, 257
Jolo, 376, 381, 397
Jones, Capt. D.M., 439
Joubert, AM P.B., 545
Joyce, Lt. R.O., 442
Julianehaab, I 57
JUNIOR, 654
Junkers company, 85
Junyo, 464, 466-47
Kaga, 458
K
Kahnku Point, 197
Kakuda, Rear Adm. Kakajugi, 466-67
Kaldadarnes, 159, 344
Kalidjati, 371
Kanga Force, 477
Kano, 3 2 0
Karachi, 329-30, 3 ~ 3 3 ~340, 3 5 3 - 5 4 493-
957,4983 507, 509-11
Kauai, 171
Kavieng, 382, 446-47
Keator, Lt. R.B., Z I I
Keflavik, 344, 346
Kegelman, Capt. C.C., 659
Kelly, Capt. Colin, 216-17
Kendari, 377-78, 380-81, 383-84, 386,
Kenly, Maj. Gen. W.L., 9
Kenya Colony, 3 3 0
Kester, Lt. E.E., 326, 354
Khartoum, 3 ~ 0 - 2 5 , 329, 3 3 2 , 354, 375
Kian, 440
Kilbourne, Brig. Gen. C.E., 48-50
Killin, Pfc, 219
Kilner Board, 1 2 0
Kimbolton, 63 I
King, Adm. E.J., 2 5 3 , 266, 432, 461-62,
Kiska, 462, 466, 469
Knerr, Maj. H.J., 59
Knilm, 375
Knox, Sec. of Navy Frank, 284-85, 549
Kobe, 4 4 2
Kodiak I., 168-69, 304, 464-65, 468
Koepang, 384-87, 393, 4% 4% 417
Kondo, Vice Adm., 456
Kongo, 469
Krogstad, Brig. Gen. A.N., 526, 528
Kuala Lumpur, 383
Kuantan, 383
Kunming, 329, 354-55, 485, 489-90, 498,
Kure, 451
Kuril Is., 195, 466
388, 404
4737 538-407 545-497 552-539 572
500, 505-6, 509, 5 1 1 - 1 2