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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Piarco airport, 162, 329
PINETREE, 622
Pittsburg, 598
Placentia Bay, 156
Plaines des Gaiacs, 433-34
Plan position indicator scope, 288
Plans, AC/AS, 472
Plans Div. (OCAC), 316
Ploesti oil fields, 341
Podington, 63 I
Pogue, L.W., 361-62
Pohl, Lt. Col. H.B., 331
Point Barrow, 170
Pointe Noire, 3 3 0
Polebrook, 63 I
Polifka, Capt. Karl, 425
Polish Air Force, 89
Portal, ACM Sir Charles, C/AS RAF,
248, 253, 559-60, 566-67, 5737 602, 6231
627, 631, 646, 652
Port Blair, 500
Port Elizabeth, 3 3 1 , 494
Port Hedland, 330-3 I
Portland (Maine), 5 2 3
Port Moresby, 178-79, 182, 184, 384, 386,
408, 41% 414, 416-179 425, 447-5'1 47'-
729 4741 477-80. 483, 504
Port of Spain, 321, 324
Portugal, 3 2 6
Potsdam conference, 2 5 2
Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley, 2 5 3
Poynton, 650
Pratt, Adm. W.V., 30, 61-62, 67
President of US., 20, 23, 6711, 180, 194,
265, 367, 371, 487. See also Coolidge;
Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson.
Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of
attack on Western Hemisphere, 150,
271, 279, 282, 285-86; US-British rela-
tions, 610; World War I, 6, 15
Prestwick, 344, 346, 356, 641, 644-45
Richard, Lt. W.J., 389
Prince of Wales, 232, 377, 438
Priorities, Pacific vs. ETO, 435-36, 472,
Production, 245-50, 666-67; between
wars, 56-57, 106-9; World W a r I, 7-
Production Management, Office of, 106,
Project A (19331, 65-69
Project X, 3 3 2 - 3 6 , 341. See also X, Task
558, 666
10, 16, 37, 5 5
1317 '33
Force.
Prome, 499
Puerto Rico, 120, 123-24, 161-63, 193,
7 8 2
274-75, 282, 3201 324, 3297 3557 4941
534-37
Punta Borinquen, 161
Pursuit aviation: for bomber offensive,
584; as compared to bombardment, 36-
37, 57, 65; designation changed to
"fighter," 307 n; flight across Atlantic,
640; question of UI< defense, 622-23
Pyle, Ernie, 286
Q
Qantas, 375
Queen Elizabeth, 375, 640
Queen Mary, 375
Quonset Point, 340
R
Rabaul, 178-79, 182, 184, 372, 377, 382,
Radar: antisub. equipment, 5 2 5 , 527, 5 3 3 ,
547, 549; British types, 288-91; devel-
opment, 55, 287-89, 293-94; in Hemi-
sphere defense, 152-53, 290-92, 296,
298, 302-3, 307-8, 465-66, 469; in
Pacific, 174, 186, 197, 220, 377, 383-84,
469, 476; training, 295; in UK, 288-91,
625-26
Radiation Laboratory (Mass. Institute of
Technology), 293-94
Radio. See Radar.
386, 408, 4103 413-14, 416-177 419, 427-
283 446-47, 470-741 47'3-81
RAINBOW NO. 5 , 139-41, 144, 147, 184,
190, 204, 2 1 3 , 236, 239, 271, 55% 577-
86, 629, 634
Ramsbury, 648
Randolph Field, 112-13
Ranger, 340
Rangoon, 395, 488-90, 492-93, 500-501,
509-10
Rawls, Lt. D.G., zoo
Reagan, Lt. C.L., 386: 398
Reconnaissance aviation: as a category,
64, 521; operations, 417, 44'3-50, 480;
redesignation of recon. sqs. as bomb.
units, 425
Regia Aeronautica. See Italian Air Force.
Reinforcements. See theaters.
Renault works, 593
Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h ,615,
648
108-9, 128, 549-51, 604-5
Repulse, 232, 377, 438
Research and development, 54-60, 69,

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