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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. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
  • p. 242 …O R+ POI NT HAWAIIAN I SLA PACIFIC OCEAN 196 o w s U I DS
  • p. 322 …any one of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
  • p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s statement that “the broad oceans which have…
  • p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
  • p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance of…
  • p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
  • p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
  • p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
  • p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air strength for the Pacific, to…
  • p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry (London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of Information covering the organization…
  • p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
  • p. 797 …This action was to be co-ordinated with an operation in the South Pacific against Tulagi…
  • p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command, High Wycombe Prime Minister Pacific Ocean Area New Caledonia Task Force Plan…
  • p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India-China Ferry, organization, 508 Indian Ocean, 33…
  • p. 856 …I , 432, 477 Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236, 272-73 Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
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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