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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
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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