The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

“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…