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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
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

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