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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. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial air force.” For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
  • p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force faced no real opposition…
  • p. 121 …The hope was not fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly came to…
  • p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
  • p. 197 …naval forces, and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian naval, air, and ground…
  • p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to the Chinese Air Force. Known…
  • p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
  • p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power. 9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in special file of Brig…
  • p. 805 …History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
  • p. 851 …E S Italian Air Force: 82-85; development, Italian East Africa, 84 Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
  • p. 857 …See Italian Air Force. Reinforcements. See theaters. Renault works, 593 Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Board, 20; joint and combined col-
laboration, 28-29, 155, 163-64, 167-68,
2 3 1 , 254-56, 266, 4287 435-38; 462, 473-
74, 48?, 566-67 (see also Joint Chiefs;
Combined Chiefs) ; Naval Air Trans-
port Service, 352; hTaval Transporta-
tion Service, 256; Patrol Wings, 184,
28, 131, 247, 284-85, 548-49; scientific
agencies, 5 5 1 ; Task Force ANZAC,
413. See also Special Naval Observer
191, 366, 454, 465, 468; Sec. of, 20,
GP.
Near East, 3 3 0
Negros, 406
Neosho, 449
Netherlands, 180, 240, 658-59
Netherlands East Indies: collaboration in
defense of Australia and New Guinea,
419-20, 478; defense facilities, 224, 230-
32, 371-72, 383-84, 3873 392, 394; de-
fense plans and operations, 180-84, 2 0 1 ,
213, 226, 231, 235-36, 242-43, 366-96,
484-85; evacuation of Java, 394-404,
408, 427; ferrying, 327-28, 338, 359
Neuberger, R.L., 271
Neutrality Act, 128, 2 7 2
Nevada, 197
New Britain, 178-79, 3 7 2 , 382, 425, 472-
New Brunswick, 347
New Caledonia, 181, 183, 192, 2 2 8 , 242-
437 3 3 ' 7 3599 3757 419, 430-377 4447
4477 47'
743 476, 489
New Caledonia Task Force, 433
New Delhi, 496
Newfoundland: defense, 156-57, 193, 345,
5.14, 535; in Eastern Theater of Opera-
uons, 294; in ferrying and air trans-
645; lease of bases, 120-21
port, 155, 313, 317-18, 342-43, 347,
Newfoundland Airport, 1 2 2 , 156-57, 5 1 5
Newfoundland Base Comd., 156
New Guinea, 178-79, 182-84, 372, 384,
395, 408, 4107 4167 419, 4259 4509 470-
83
New Guinea Force, 421
New Hebrides, 410, 435, 447, 471
New Ireland, 372, 382, 450, 474
N e w Jersey, 26
New Orleans, 317
New South Wales, 422-23
New York City, 279-80, 293-94, 356,
New Zealand, 18-81, 242-43, 419, 430,
Ngoro, 386, 391, 394, 398
526-27
432, 436. See also Royal NZAF.
780
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Nichols Field, 177, 186, 203, 207, 209,
213-14, 218-19, 223, 405, 418
Nielson, Lt. C.J., 4 4 2
Nielson Field, 207-8, 214, 219, 405
Nigeria, 320, 324, 354
Night fighters, 578, 634
Nimitz, Adm. C.W., 403, 419, 452, 454,
Nome, 169, 358
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 194
Norden, C.L., 598
Norden bombsight, 439, 598-601
Norfolk (England), 646
North African invasion, 240, 560, 573
North African military mission, 325-26,
497
North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier,
521-23, 526
North Atlantic route: defense, 155-60,
171; ferrying and air transport, 316-19,
North Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 344, 349
North Atlantic Wing (ATC), 349, 363
Northeast Air District, 577
Northeast Airlines, 347, 356
Northeastern Defense Comd., 154
Northern Ireland, 140, 239-40, 243, 375,
4627 464
327, 342-497 356-571 626, 639-45
43% 560, 562, 5789 580, 586, 627-289
63-31, 634, 638, 648, 650
Northern Territory, 42 I
North Honshu, 464
Northland, 345
North Pacific Area, 419
ATorthwest Airlines, 357-58
Northwestern, 467
Noumea, 433
0
Oahu, 125, 234, 462; attack, 194-201;
Oakley, 627
Observation plane, as category, 57, 65
O'Donnell, M a j . Emmett, Jr., 178, 189,
O'Donnell Field, 186
Oestreichcr, Lt. R. G., 393
Oklahoma, 197
Old, Col. W.D., 498, 5 0 2
Old Catton, 646
Olds, Brig. Gen. Robert, 316, 364, 507
Oliver, Col. R.C., 509
Olongapo, 2 19
Ominato, 464
Ioo-octane gasoline supply, 230, 378
strength (1941), 170-75
215-16
%den, 358

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