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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. 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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
NEI, 372, 374; North Atlantic, 156-
60; Philippines, 176-79, 185-86, 191-91,
201-3, 218, 226, 407, 411-12; South
Pacific, 43 1-37, 474-75; UK, 644-46,
652-53
Strother, Capt. D.R., 389
Subic Bay, 405
Submarine warfare, 514-53; attacks, 281-
North Atlantic, 157, 277 n, 514-18;
Caribbean and Gulf areas, 530, 534;
North Atlantic convoy lanes and
North Africa, 536; shipping toll, 515-
Antisub. defense.
83, 5'4-183 527. 5309 534-36, 54'9 547;
18, 530, 533-36, 541, 547. See also
Sudetenland, 89
Suez region, 148
Sumatfa. 372, 379, 388, 394
Sungei Patani, 379
SUPER-GYMNAST, 240, 612-15
Supply, 151, 259, 264, 566; Aleutians, 469;
CBI, 375, 488-89, 494, 496, 510; Hawaii,
454; North Atlantic, 347; South Pa-
cific, 433-34; Supply Div. (OCAC),
55; Supply Gp. (AS), 56; SWPA, 227-
28, 3 5 3 7 375, 378, 3819 3 8 5 , 400, 407,
4 2 2 . 482
Support aviation. See Air doctrine; Air
power; Navy.
Surinam, 124, 536
Sutherland, Brig. Gen. R.K., 188n, 204-
Suva, 181, 192, 226, 431-32
Swanton Morley, 658
Sweden, 177
Sweeney, Lt. Col. W.C., Jr., 457
Sydney, 411, 422-23
5, 2 0 7 , 209
T
Tactics, 575; British conclusions, 53 1-32;
CBI, 489, 496-97; fighter, in SWPA,
4737 476-77; Japanese, 403
Taiwan Field, 208-9
Takao, 466, 469
Takoradi, 320-22, 3 3 1 , 339-40, 492
Talara, 301
Tampa, 3 3 2
Tanaga, 465
Tanganyika, 330
Tarakan, 377,, 379-80, 404
Target selectm, 148, 565, 595-97, 599,
621-22, 624
Tarlac, 207, 209
Tash, Lt. Earl, Z I I
786
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Task Force 8, 464
Tate, Col. Robert, 498, 508
Taylor, Lt. K.A., 199
TBF, a t Midway, 456, 458
Technical Services, Director of, 550
Technical Training Comd., I I 2
Teddington, 645
Tehran, 329, 338, 354
Tehuantepec, 301
Ternate Field, 186
Thacker, Lt. R.E., 2 0 0
Thailand, 377, 489
Theobald, Rear Adm. R.A., 464
Thomas, Cap. L.M., 326
Thornbrough, Capt. G.W., 468
Thurleigh, 63 I
Timor, 372, 377, 385-87, 390-93, 414, 417,
Tinker, Maj. Gen. C.L., 454
Tjilatjap, 397
Tocumwal, 4 2 3
Tokyo, Doolittle raid against, 298, 438-
Tonga, 435
Tongatabu, 431, 435-37
Tontouta, 432
TORCH, 573-76, 588, 590, 607, 614, 628,
Toungoo, 488, 49z7 499
Towers, Adm. J.H., 538-39, 566
Townsville, 181, 184, 2 3 1 , 376, 385, 408,
411, 413, 416, 422, 447-50, 4771 480, 483
Training, 110-12, 496-97, 566, 605, 610;
(1941) 260, 264, (1942) 249-50, 264; Air
Service manuals, 35, 45; Alaska, 166;
antisub., 514, 524-25; for Australia,
2 3 0 ; in bombing, 439-40; CBI, 486, 488,
495-96; center at Karachi, 495; direc-
tive for GHQAF, 260; in ETO, 1 5 1 ,
656-57; by factory representatives, 423;
of ground crewmen, I I I ; joint exercises
(Army-Navy), 521; inadequacy for
Coral Sea battle, 450, for crews in
Pacific, 450, 454, 482, for Java cam-
paign, 400, for Midway, 461; New
Guinea,. 481; programs for pilots, I IO-
1 1 ; Project X, 334-35; of radar tech-
nicians, 295; in torpedo-dropping,
48 1
Training Regulation 44-15, 45, 48-49,
Transcontinental & Western Air, 347,
Tavoy, 492
474
447 45'. 498, 506
653-54
53
3529 355-57
Trans-India Ferry, 498, 507-8
Transportation targets, 596

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