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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. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
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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