“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…
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