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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.

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  • 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…
I N D E X
Kurusu, Saburo, 194
Kuter, Brig. Gen. L.S., 50, 146
Kweilin, 440
L
Labor supply, 424, 483, 508-9, 632, 650
Labrador, 1 5 5 , 342-437 345-47, 641
Ladd Field, 167, 169, 465
Lae, 184, 372, 408, 417. 425, 471-72, 4741
La Fleur, Chaplain J.F., 2 1 2
Lagos, 3 2 0 , 3 2 z 1 324, 354
La Guardia, Fiorello, 2 1 , 279
Lakunai, 480
Lampert Comm., 27-29
Lanai, 171
Lanao, Lake, 407
Lancashire, 636, 648
Landis, J.M., 298
Landon, Maj. T.H., 200
Landry, Lt. L.D., 386
Lane, Capt. William, Jr., 385-87
Langford Lodge, 634-39, 650
Langley Field: antisuh. patrols, 5 2 3 , 550;
ASTS, 45, 50; VIII Bomber Comd.,
activation, 613; GHQAF Hq., 3 1 ;
Memorial Aeronautical Lab., 55
Langoa, 380
Larson, Brig. Gen. W.T., 528, 553
Lashio, 485, 506
Lassiter Board, 26, 28, 45
Latin America. See Central America;
Lawson, Lt. T.W., 442
LB-30: characteristics, 400-401; supply
for Britain, 317, 328, 332, 359
Leahy, Adm. W.D.: appointment to
JCS, 255; personal C/S to Pres. Roose-
velc, 254; TORCH, comments on, 573,
575
477-79, 481
Landey, 396989 484
South America.
Leary, Vice Adm. H.F., 419-20
Lee, Maj. Gen. J.C.H., 649
Leeward Is., 193
Legaspi, 219
Legislation: before World War I, 23;
between wars, 18, 54, 57, I O I , 104-5,
1 1 5 ; neutrality, 128-29, 272; World
W a r I, 6, 9. See also Lend-lease aid.
Leland, Maj. Gordon, 505-6
LeMay, Maj. C.E., 326
Lembang, 368
Lend-lease aid, 1 2 6 3 5 , 259, 317, 328, 337,
3439 351; Britain, 1 0 3 7 127-30, 133-34,
236, 245, 314, 318-19, 337-38; British
in Middle East, 3 1 2 , 318-20, 327-29,
337, 3 7 1 ; China, 244,. 3 1 2 , 328-29, 337-
38; France, 129; Indla, 328; passage of
act, 130, 314, 342; Southwest Pacific,
328; U.S.S.R., 132-35, 3 1 2 , 3 2 5 , 3293
337-397 3 5 1
Leopoldville, 324, 355
Letter contracts, 106
Levin, Sgt. M.S., 2 1 7
Lexington, 417, 447,449
Leyte, 406
Lhoknga, 379
Liberator. See B-24.
Liberia, 3 2 1 , 324, 329
Light bomber, first designation, 58-59
Lima, Declaration of, 1 2 0
Lincoln, hlaj. Gen. R.B., 421-22
Lingayen Gulf, 191, 207, 209, 2 1 5 , 2 2 3 - 2 4
Lipa, 2 2 5
Lishui, 40,444
Little, Adm. Sir Charles, 253
Little Staughton, 63 I
Liverpool, 630, 635-38, 640
Lockheed aircraft plant, 280, 3 2 1
Lockheed Overseas Corp., 635-37, 650
Loiwing, 490, 498, 501
Lombok, Strait of, 394
London conference (Sept. 1941), 1 3 2 .
London Naval Treaty, 77
Longfellow, Col. Newton, 644, 646
Long Kesh, 648
Long-range bomber, evolution of, 53-7 I
Los Angeles, 279; “battle of,” 283-86
Losses: Aleutians, 469; Darwin, 393-94;
Java, 393-99, 400-442; Luzon, 212-13;
New Guinea, 477, 481-83; Pearl Har-
bor, 197-201; submarine, 515-18, 530,
See also Special Observer Gp.
534-36
Louisiade Archipelago, 448, 450
Lovett, R.A., 1 1 5 , 146
Low-altitude flying, 48 I ; Eighth AF,
Lower California, 298
Lowery, Capt. H.F., 479
Lunga Plain, 471
Luzon, 1 2 5 , 186, 188, 191. 195, 2 3 2 , 234,
236, 242, 368, 405-18; U.S. defeat,
201-27
Lyon, Brig. Gen. A.J., 604, 620, 628, 636
657-58; World War I, 14
M
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: CG South-
west Pacific Area, 419, 424, 426, 450.
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