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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
I N D E X
11s Group Program, 250-51, 560
Opana radar detector station, 197
Operations. See Air Forces; thearers of
operations.
Operations Div. (WDGS), 264, 546, 553,
588, 652. See also WPD.
Ordnance Company (Avn.), 445th,
434
Ordnance depot: in Philippines, 187,
214; in UK, 650
Organization: Air Corps, 2 ~ 3 3 ; Air
Districts, 154; Air Service, 18-29; for
bomber offensive, 575; of commands,
155; consolidation of OCAC with
GHQAF, 3 2 , 114-15; first four air
forces, 1 5 5 ; GHQ Air Force, 31; W D
reorganization (h4ar. 1942), 264-65. See
also AAF; Air Forces.
Ostfriesland, 26
Overrnan Act of 1918, 9
Owen Stanley hits., 408, 416-17, 478,
480
P
P-35, characteristics, 406
P-38: in Alaska, 465; flight to UK, 641-
45; modification, 425
P-39: for Alaska, 465; characteristics, 454,
477; proposed flight to UK, 641-43; in
SWPA, 407, 411, 431
P-40: for Alaska, 465; for British, 634;
characteristics, 231, 401, 405, 454, 4 7 6
77, 488, 490; for China, 339-40, 488;
in SWPA, 384, 393? 396-98, 404-5
4117 4'69 435
P-400, characteristics, 41 I , 432, 477
Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236,
272-73
Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452
Paco, 214
Padloping I., 346
Palau, 376, 382, 393, 447
Palembang, 379, 383, 388, 391
Palmyra I., 1 2 5 , 180, 430-31, 436
Panair do Brasil, 321
Panama, 66, 1 2 1 , 163, 190, 193
Panama, Declaration of, I 2 I
Panama Canal: danger of attack, 164,
272-73, 275, 2 9 9 , 3 0 1 , 303; defenses,
Panama Canal Dept., 160-64; A x Force,
Panama Canal Zone, defense of, 160-65,
Panama Sea Frontier, 548
123-25, 1477 160, 274, 301-3, 536
I 60
274-76, 3029 369
Pan American Air Ferries, Tnc., 322-24,
Pan American Airways, 172, 3 x - 2 3 , 328-
Pan American Airways-Africa, Ltd.,
Pan American Airways Co., 3 2 2 - 2 3
Panay, 406
P a p , 449, 471; Gulf of, 417
Paranaque, 2 14
Paris Air Agreement, 85
Parsel, Capt. E.L., 215-16
3277 338-407 354
29, 3 3 3 7 335-36, 352-537 ?55-S6* 375
322-249 338, 354
Pasirian, 39j
Patch, Brig. Gcn. A.M., Jr., 433-34
Patrick. hlai. Gen. M.h4.: Chief of Air
Corps, 22: 24; Chief of Air Service,
1 1 , 26-28
Patterson Field (Iceland), 344, 346
Pattcrson Field (Ohio), 358, 484
PRY: characteristics, 414, 456-57, 461; in
Pearl Harbor, 1 2 5 , 173, 194-2017 452, 464;
Pacific, 338, 432, 435, 458, 465-68
investigation, 2 6 2
PcarY > 391-93
Pecos, 398-99
Peirse, AM Sir R.E.C., 370-71
Pell, Rlaj. Floyd, 385, 393, 3 9 6
Pennsylvania Central airline, 358
Pensacola, 1 9 2 , 225
Peres, Lt. J.R., 393
Permanent Joint Board on Defense
Perrin, Col. E.S., 399, 420
Perry, Lt. E.S., 393
Pershing, Gen. J.J., 7, 1 0 - 1 1 , 2 3 , 37, 43-
Persian Gulf, 325-26, 338-39
Personnel problems: Air Service, 19;
shortages, 110, 330. See also Labor;
Morale.
Perth, 396, 399, 411
Peru, 301
Philippine Air Force, 203, 219
Philippine Airlines, 375
Philippine Army, 186
Philippine Dept. Air Force, 177, 2 0 3
Philippine Is., 125-26, 134, 147, 235-36,
36748, 377, 380-81, 395, ,417, 425-27,
450, 471; advance warning, ~go-gr;
defense, 175-3, 201-20; reinforcement,
353-54, 404-10, 428, 562; Royce mls-
sion, 418; US. High Commissioner,
190; withdrawal of US. troops, 2 2 0 -
33
(Canada-US.), 1 2 1 , 126, 298
44. 258
1837 223, 227-321 239, 242, 3 1 2 , 3!61
Photo reconnaissance, 189-90, 425, 624
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