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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…
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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