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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. 47 …s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division (strategic reserve), and Italian and Portuguese…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 119 …naval air service, and a colonial air force.” For their air doctrines, the Italians depended almost…
  • p. 120 …In its first “combat” test during the thirties the Italian Air Force faced no real opposition…
  • p. 121 …The hope was not fulfilled, for numerous weaknesses in the Italian Air Force rapidly came to…
  • p. 122 …The fundamental weakness of the Italian Air Force was not in its theory of air power…
  • p. 197 …naval forces, and within prescribed boundaries to destroy any German and Italian naval, air, and ground…
  • p. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 554 …Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to the Chinese Air Force. Known…
  • p. 705 …Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, to England for study of the problem. Specifically, he was…
  • p. 752 …USSBS, Japanese Air Power. 9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in special file of Brig…
  • p. 805 …History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p…
  • p. 851 …E S Italian Air Force: 82-85; development, Italian East Africa, 84 Italy, Air Ministry, 82…
  • p. 857 …See Italian Air Force. Reinforcements. See theaters. Renault works, 593 Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h…
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

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