“RAF”60+ pages
- p. 12 …T h e term “first narrative,” bor-
rowed from the RAF, was frequently used to describe…
- p. 16 …history would constitute a lifetime assignment-the RAF’s history of
World W a r I…
- p. 47 …being made
up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the
French…
- p. 48 …early 1917.O n 6 June 1918the RAF’s Independent Force had been
established with its…
- p. 53 …Most radical was the independent air force,
usually drawing heavily upon the RAF and its Air…
- p. 114 …I when a
British mission of retired RAF officers and others arrived in Japan to
assist…
- p. 127 …At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain…
- p. 128 …After French surrender on 2 2 June, only the RAF remained
for the Luftwaffe to conquer…
- p. 129 …T h e RAF and the Battle of Britain
The German bombing of Britain in World…
- p. 130 …The RAF retained its autonomy; but, even so, sentiment for
many years, like that in the…
- p. 131 …it was
hoped that the badly ournumbered RAF would be able to hold off
any German…
- p. 132 …By the end of September the RAF had asserred its control of the air
over rhe…
- p. 133 …It will take no credit from the RAF’s outnumbered “few” to sug-
gest that the…
- p. 136 …Operations of the RAF after the fall of 1940 were as widely dis-
persed as were…
- p. 137 …on strategic bombardment, would find in the RAF a stout and under-
standing ally. It is…
- p. 171 …British requirements amounted to
49,385 planes, including first-line strength and wastage for the RAF…
- p. 186 …with fresh data and a familiarity with RAF
experience. Actual authorship of a military document is…
- p. 290 …to
prewar plans, was to join the RAF in the attack on Germany. This
project was…
- p. 338 …Fortunately, the RAF,
magnificently served by such advisers as Robert Watson-Watt,
rapidly went beyond the…
- p. 341 …enjoyed
through the co-operation of the RAF unusual opportunities to com-
pare results with those…
- p. 343 …United States military mission in London, the
RAF offered the services of Robert Watson-Watt, Scientific…
- p. 369 …The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand…
- p. 391 …of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had…
- p. 398 …an
initial mission to participate with the RAF in the bombardment of
Germany. Questions remained regarding…
- p. 404 …air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the…
- p. 553 …of models considered obsolescent for AAF and RAF needs,
and cadres of American pilots and ground…
- p. 555 …were considered obsolescent by the AAF and
RAF) previously allocated to Sweden were released for the…
- p. 556 …in addition to collaboration with a small RAF contingent in
defense of Rangoon, he provided patrol…
- p. 557 …Even when the
enemy after his first experience sought to wipe out the RAF and
A…
- p. 565 …General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a…
- p. 566 …Unable to
challenge seriously the enemy’s supremacy in the air, meager RAF
and A V…
- p. 568 …May, the bombers struck at
Mingaladon, former RAF airdrome near Rangoon which the Japanese
were using…
- p. 570 …fensive efforts between the Tenth and the RAF, and on 1 5 April the
War Department…
- p. 571 …Accordingly, on
24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations
under RAF supervision…
- p. 609 …It also reflected the profound influence exerted by the RAF
Coastal Command on AAF thinking. That…
- p. 610 …Fleet
Air Arm by creating a special RAF command, equipped and trained
for sea search and…
- p. 614 …control in terms comparable to those governing RAF
Coastal Command. Almost from the beginning, the question…
- p. 615 …it had
been the experience of the RAF “that a purely defensive policy only
leads to…
- p. 619 …On the tactical side,
valuable assistance was obtained from an experienced RAF crew
which flew two…
- p. 626 …bomber crews
flying borrowed Bostons in an RAF routine sweep against enemy
airfields." During the seven…
- p. 628 …current allocation of heavy bombers to the RAF.6 N o immediate cut
was contemplated; and…
- p. 630 …was suggested that for the present the RAF
would assume sole responsibility for the air offensive…
- p. 633 …the conduct in co-operation with the
RAF of an offensive against western Europe in 1942…
- p. 634 …T o
the Air Staff, as to RAF Bomber Command, the bomber offensive
had figured as…
- p. 635 …Now that the SLEDGEHAMMERJROUNDUP strategy had
been accepted, the RAF wanted the United States to increase…
- p. 636 …the British desire for reinforcement of the
Middle East; the RAF Coastal Command’s request for…
- p. 637 …I ) allocate to
Great Britain for the RAF and Dominion air forces aircraft according
to an…
- p. 647 …TRIGGER,
a plan to set up in America, with RAF aid, a model air defense sector…
- p. 648 …important fea-
tures were borrowed from the RAF. H e proposed to effect a sharp
cleavage…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 653 …Chaney must provide for their operational control with-
out recourse to the RAF. Chaney’s immediate…
- p. 656 …forces and the RAF, provision must be
made for two chains of command-that of the…
- p. 657 …i.e., Eighth Air
Force = RAF; VIII Bomber Command = RAF Bomber Command) ;
and while it provided…
- p. 659 …Under these conditions, relations with
RAF Bomber Command were more important for the Eighth Air
Force…
- p. 660 …ning for the bomber offensive with the RAF.
Daylight or Dark?
As an argument in favor…
- p. 661 …weapons are the Russian army and the RAF.” 1 5 5
It is significant that this…
- p. 662 …Critics complained of the RAF’s failure to provide adequate close
support for ground operations in…
- p. 663 …Messages from that office cast doubts upon the results of the RAF
bomber offensive and criticized…
- p. 664 …When in 1941 the two air staffs began planning their combined
attack on Germany, the RAF…
- p. 665 …Even before the war, RAF preference had run to night tactics for
strategic bombardment, an attitude…
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