Documents / Document

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

Air Force Historical Studies Office · 863 pages · text from the file's own layer

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…
I N D E X
also Lend-lease) ; British troops, 239;
crisis in, 493, 560-62, 564
Midway, 125, 174-75, 178-79, 181-82,
Midway, Battle of, 296, 298-99, 451-62,
Mikuma, 459
Milch, Erhard, 87
Military Aeronautics, Director of, 9
Military Requirements, Director of, 5 5 3
Miller, Lt. H.F., 439
Milne Bay, 483
Mindanao, 1 2 5 , 187-88, 193, 214, 218-20,
f3I-32, 376, 381, 388, 404-7, 418, 426
Mmdoro, 224
Mingaladon, 489, 501
Minneapolis, 357
Misima I., 448-49
Mitchel Field, 1 5 2 , 156, 523
Mitchell, Brig. Gen. William, 598; fight
for air power when Asst. Chief of Air
Service, 22-28, 34-47, 53, 57; statement
of doctrine, 42; trial before general
courtmartial, 27-28; World W a r I,
201, 428, 4447 4491 4649 641-43
47 1
12-15, 43.
Mitchell aircraft. See B-25.
Mobile Reserve Corps, 612, 614
Mobility, AAF policy on, 437, 542, 544,
Modjokerto, 390
Molesworth, 631, 638, 640
Molokai, 171
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 133
Molucca Is., 382; Sea, 377
Mombasa, 33-31
Moncton, 347
Money, Pfc W.L., 217
Monroe Doctrine, 117-19, I Z Z
Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 340
Montgomery, Lt. G.R., 215-16
Montreal, 3 13-14, 3 17-18, 344
Moore, Lt. J.H., 211
Morale: in CBI, 401, 495-96; effect of
bombing on enemy, 444, 599; in ETO,
659-60, 662; in Pacific, 401-2, 413,
451, 481-82
547, 551
M o g m i , 459
Morrisey, Capt. R.L., 416
Morris Field, 299, 643
Morrison Field, 337-39, 341-42
Morrow, D.W., 28
Morrow Board, 22, 25, 28-30, 33
Moscow, Anglo-American mission to,
Moulmein, 492
Mountbaaen, Lord Louis, 589
132-33, 3189 578
Mow, P.T., 487
Mueller, Capt. A.J., 426
Munitions Assignments Board, 249, 2 5 6
Munitions Assignments Comm. (Air),
Riluri, Lt. J.P., 458
Murphy, Lt. J.B., 466
Mussolini, as Air Minister (Italy), 82,
Myitkyina, 498, 500-501, s o p 1 0
571 566
257
84
N
Nagoya, 442
Nagumo, Adm., 456
Naiden, Brig. Gen. E.L., 497-98, 502, 513
Nandi, 181, 434
Nanking, 78
Narsarssuak, 157, 343, 641
Nassau, 355
Natal, 120, 319, 321-22, 324, 3 2 ~ 3 0 ,
National Advisory Comm. for Aero-
National Airways, 422
National Defense, Dept. of (proposed),
National Defense Act of 1916, 2 3
National Defense Research Council, 5 5 1
Nautilus, 458
Naval Operations, Chief of, 30, 67, 69,
Navy, US.: allocations, 107, 1 2 9 , . ,145,
247, 352, 494; antisub. responsibilities
and activities, 278, 296, 514-53; Comdr.
in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also
King); controversy over air power vs.
battleship, 18, 2-22, 25-27, 39, 7-71.
598-99, 667; controversy over dloca-
594; controversy over coastal defense
responsibility and techniques, 35, 48,
61-63, 67-71, 117-19, 284-85, 518-26,
53533; controversy over relative pri-
ority of Pacific and ETO, 435-36, 472,
666; defense activities in Atlantic and
Caribbean, 122-25, 147, 157, 159-66,
274-75, 345-49; defense activities in
Pacific, 147, 172-75, 178, 180-81, 183,
190-91, 194-95, 214, 225, 228, 276-77,
41.7, 4199 428-38, 462, 4741 487; Dis-
tricts, 180, 279, 526; engagements in
Pacific, 197, 214, 216, 232, 380, 391-
3 3 2 7 355-54
nautics, 7, 55
20-21, 27-29
158, 2537 265, 5157 5 2 1
tions, 259, 538-40, 542-44. 5471 5-51.
9 2 , 398-997 401-2, 406, 417, 44-42,
447-51, 455-59, 462, 464-70; General
779

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 863 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.