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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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Sea W i t c h , 397-98, 484
Secretary of War, 20, 24, 26-28, 70, 1 1 5 ,
131, 134, 140, 157, 178, 180, 260, 271,
314, 328, 3 5 1 , 364, 485,. 548 (see also
Stimson); asst. for aviation, 29, 3 1 ;
Asst. Sec. for Air, 1 1 5 , 352; Second
Asst., 9, 24
Selective Service System, I 10-1 I
Selective Training and Service Act, I I I
Selfridge Field, 613
Semarang, 372
Services of Supply: air priorities func-
tion transferred to ATC, 362; in CBI,
495; organization, 264; in UK, 649-50,
652
Sewn-Mile Airdrome, 477
Seward, 170; Seward-Anchorage area,
Seychelles Is., 3 3 0
SHADOW 82, 578
Shanghai, 78, 2 3 2
Sharnbrook, 650
Shenandoah, 27
Shipping: losses, 39!-54! 515-18, 530,
534-36, 541, 547; priorities, 243; routes,
310-12, 404-5, 536, 548; shortages, 242,
374-757 4247 430. 538, 5473 6401 65'7
65 3
I 68
Shoho, 448-49
Shokaku, 448-49, 451
Short, Lt. Gen. W.C., 175, 180, 192-93
Shortland F., 447
Siemens, Lt. Col. Isaac, 508
Sierra Leone, 320, 329
Signal Corps: Chief Signal Officer, 7-8,
292-93; radar research, 55, 289-90. See
also Air Service; Aviation Sec.
Simard, Capt. C.T., 455-56
Simon, Frank, 5 1
sims, 449
Sinclair, AM Sir Archibald, 592
Sind desert, 496
Singapore, 183-84, 235-36, 242, 3671 4041
4279 4321 504
Sitka, 464.
Sixteen-Liberator project, 327-28
Skyways, 41
Singosari, 377, 379, 383, 394
SLEDGEHAMMER, 564-66, 571-73,
5889 5907 653
Slessor, AVM J.C., 567
Slessor Agreement, 134-35
Sneed, Col. A.L., 421
Soemba I., 372, 385, 390
Soerabaja, 2 3 1 , 371, 383-84, 386-87, 395,
427; Bay, 391
784
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Solomon Is., 183, 410, 419, 425, 44-50,
470-76, 48p, 483; Resident Commis-
sioner (Brit.), 471
Sondre Stromfjord, 641
Soong, T.V., 487
Sotteville. See Rouen.
South Africa, Union of, 331, 494
South African Air Force, 9
South America, 147, 164, 240. See also
Airfields; Caribbean; South Atlantic
route.
South Atlantic air route, 123-24, 228,
South Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 337
South Atlantic Wing (ATC), 363
South China Sea, 209, z I I
Southern Defense Comd., 154
South Pacific air route, 18-83, 192-3,
Soryu,. 458
3 ' 2 , 3'9-421,354-569 3% 38874288,493-94
228-29, 331-329 3367 3 5 9 - 6 0 , 375, 380,
410-16, 419, 428-38, 447, 452-54, 560
South Pacific Area, 444, 454, 469, 473;
established, 419. See also South Pacific
route and specific islands.
South Pacific Wing (ATC),, 363
Southwest Pacific Area: air route via
South Atlantic, 228, 312-13, 328-36,
353-54, 359, 364. 428 (see also South
Pacific route); air service, 421-22, 482;
Allied Forces established, 419-20;
General Hq., 204-5, 208; operations,
397-98, 417, 425, 427, 4 4 6 5 % 48-81;
reinforcements, 227, 3 1 2 , 33637, 372,
376, 384-88, 40% 4087 413-147 452-54,
478, 562, 566; reorganization of bomber
units, 413-14; strategy for, 410-11,
472-74, 574, 576. See also ABDA;
Australia; NEI; Philippine Is.
Soviet Air Force, 79-80, 98, 1 3 3
Soviet protocol, 249
Soviet Union. See U.S.S.R.
Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Carl, 48, 60, 314; Air
Officer, ETOUSA, 591, 649-51, 656,
661, 663, 665; C G AFCC, 560, 614-15;
CG Eighth AF, 565, 570, 574, 582, 585,
587-91, 595, 606-7, 610, 616-17, 621-22,
625, 628, 637-38, 641-43, 645; Chief of
Air Staff, 262
Spanish civil war, 76, 83-84, 487
Spatz, Sgt. H.A., 442
Special Naval Observer Group, 123, 132,
'441 5773 594
Special Observer Group, U.S. Army, 109,
1 2 3 , 1 3 2 , 144, 252, 262, 577-82, 601,
618-20, 634,. 636
Sperry bombsight, 599, 601

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