“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
I N D E X
42d Transport Sq., 307
44th Pursuit Sq., 199
44th Recon. Sq., 163
46th Pursuit Sq., 199
47th Pursuit Sq., 199
49th Bomb. Sq., 157
54th Fighter Sq., 307
58th Bomb. Sq., 170
59th Bomb. Sq., 16%
59th Materiel (Service) Sq., 509
66th Obsn. Sq., 530
67th Pursuit Sq., 43-32, 434
68th Pursuit Sq., 43-32, 435
69th Pursuit sq., 431-32, 434
70th Bomb. Sq., 435
70th Pursuit Sq., 431
72d Bomb. Sq., 455-56
7jd Bomb. Sq., 166, 307, 468
77th Bomb. Sq., 303-4, 307, 464-65,
86th Obsn. Sq., 170-71
88th Recon. Sq., 183, 189, 193, 199-
89th Bomb. Sq., 414, 439
90th Bomb. Sq., 414, 447-48
gist Bomb. Sq., 387, 390, 392
92d Recon. Sq., 526
93d Uomb. Sq., 183, 189
95th Bomb. Sq., 439
97th Obsn. Sq., 530
3 1 3 t h Materiel Sq., 337
431s Bomb. Sq., 456-57
435th Bomb. Sq., 425, 447-48
436th Bomb. Sq., 5 1 2
468
2 0 0 , 413
Staff conversations (US.-Brit.), 136, 140
S t a h , A4arsha1, 133
Standards, Bur. of, 55
Stark, Adm. H.R., 248, 253-54, 5 1 5
State, Dept. of, 180, 194, 256, 326, 434,
487; Sec. of, 194, 485
Stephenville, 156
Sterling, Lt. G.H., Jr., 199
Stilwell, Lt. Gen. J.W., 439, 493, 499-
(00, 502-5, 507
Stimson, Sec. of W a r H.L., 115-16, 134,
146, 246-47, 2 5 0 , z j 2 , 282, 284-86, 299,
3 0 1 - 2 , 4857 549, 565
Stone (England), 648
Stornoway, 344
Strahm, Col. V.H., 497, 5 1 3
Stratemeyer, Maj. Gen. G.E., 574-75
Straubel, Maj. A.A., 332, 380, 383
Strauss, Lt., 2 2 0
Strength: AAF, 151-52, 154, 193, 249-5.1;
AFCC, 159; Alaska, 16670; Australia,
41-13; Caribbean, 160-65, 536; CBI,
493, 495, 5 1 2 ; Hawaii, 17-75, 452-57;
Sperry Gyroscope Co., 599
Spokane, 304
Sprague, Maj. C.A., 385, 387, 394
Squadrons:
zd Obsn. Sq., 177
2d Sea-Search Attack Sq., 550
3d Pursuit Sq., 177, 186, 203, 209,
3d Recon. Sq., 526
3d Sea-Search Attack Sq., 550
5th Photo Sq., 615, 639
7rh Photo Sq., 613, 615
7th Recon. Sq., 163
8th Bomb. Sq., 414, 425, 447, 478
8th Photo Sq., 425
9th Bomb. Sq., 5 1 2
9th Pursuit Sq., 416
11th Bomb. Sq., 5 0 5 , 5 1 2
11th Pursuit (Fighter) Sq., 303-4,
12th Pursuit Sq., 431-32
13th Bomb. Sq., 414, 447, 479
13th Pursuit Sq., 385, 396
14th Bomb. Sq., 178, 183, 189, 2 1 5
15th Bomb. Sq., 639-40, 648, 660;
first U.S. unit t o enter combat
from England, 640, 658
16th Fighter Sq., 5 1 2
17th Pursuit Sq., 177, 186, 2 0 3 , 207,
209, 212-13, 2 1 5 , 218, 385, 387,
391-927 397-98
2 1 1 , 2 1 3 , 385, 387, 390
3073 465767
18th Pursuit Sq., 166, 307
18th Weather Sq., 625
20th Pursuit Sq., 177, 186, 203, 207,
2 1 s Pursuit Sq., 183, 186, 203, 209,
2 1 s Recon. Sq., 156
zIst Troop Carrier Sq., 478
zzd Bomb. Sq., 413, 5 1 2
26th Bomb. Sq., 456
27th Recon. Sq., 161-62
28th Bomb. Sq., 177, 183
30th Bomb. Sq., 183
31st Bomb. Sq., 456
32d Bomb. Sq., 183
33d Pursuit Sq, 158, 385, 393, 396
34th Bomb. Sq., 439
54th Pursuit Sq., 183, 186, 203, 209,
36th Bomb. Sq., 166, 307, 465, 468
38th Recon. Sq., 183, 189, 193,
39th Obsn. Sq., 163
40th Bomb. Sq., 537
40th Recon. Sq., 407, 425
41st Recon. Sq., 156
209, 2 1 1 , 385-86
2 1 2 - 1 3 , 2 1 8
2 1 1 , 2 1 5 , 218
199-200