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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.

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  • p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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