“RAF”60+ pages
- p. 12 …T h e term “first narrative,” bor-
rowed from the RAF, was frequently used to describe…
- p. 16 …history would constitute a lifetime assignment-the RAF’s history of
World W a r I…
- p. 47 …being made
up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the
French…
- p. 48 …early 1917.O n 6 June 1918the RAF’s Independent Force had been
established with its…
- p. 53 …Most radical was the independent air force,
usually drawing heavily upon the RAF and its Air…
- p. 114 …I when a
British mission of retired RAF officers and others arrived in Japan to
assist…
- p. 127 …At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain…
- p. 128 …After French surrender on 2 2 June, only the RAF remained
for the Luftwaffe to conquer…
- p. 129 …T h e RAF and the Battle of Britain
The German bombing of Britain in World…
- p. 130 …The RAF retained its autonomy; but, even so, sentiment for
many years, like that in the…
- p. 131 …it was
hoped that the badly ournumbered RAF would be able to hold off
any German…
- p. 132 …By the end of September the RAF had asserred its control of the air
over rhe…
- p. 133 …It will take no credit from the RAF’s outnumbered “few” to sug-
gest that the…
- p. 136 …Operations of the RAF after the fall of 1940 were as widely dis-
persed as were…
- p. 137 …on strategic bombardment, would find in the RAF a stout and under-
standing ally. It is…
- p. 171 …British requirements amounted to
49,385 planes, including first-line strength and wastage for the RAF…
- p. 186 …with fresh data and a familiarity with RAF
experience. Actual authorship of a military document is…
- p. 290 …to
prewar plans, was to join the RAF in the attack on Germany. This
project was…
- p. 338 …Fortunately, the RAF,
magnificently served by such advisers as Robert Watson-Watt,
rapidly went beyond the…
- p. 341 …enjoyed
through the co-operation of the RAF unusual opportunities to com-
pare results with those…
- p. 343 …United States military mission in London, the
RAF offered the services of Robert Watson-Watt, Scientific…
- p. 369 …The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand…
- p. 391 …of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had…
- p. 398 …an
initial mission to participate with the RAF in the bombardment of
Germany. Questions remained regarding…
- p. 404 …air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the…
- p. 553 …of models considered obsolescent for AAF and RAF needs,
and cadres of American pilots and ground…
- p. 555 …were considered obsolescent by the AAF and
RAF) previously allocated to Sweden were released for the…
- p. 556 …in addition to collaboration with a small RAF contingent in
defense of Rangoon, he provided patrol…
- p. 557 …Even when the
enemy after his first experience sought to wipe out the RAF and
A…
- p. 565 …General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a…
- p. 566 …Unable to
challenge seriously the enemy’s supremacy in the air, meager RAF
and A V…
- p. 568 …May, the bombers struck at
Mingaladon, former RAF airdrome near Rangoon which the Japanese
were using…
- p. 570 …fensive efforts between the Tenth and the RAF, and on 1 5 April the
War Department…
- p. 571 …Accordingly, on
24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations
under RAF supervision…
- p. 609 …It also reflected the profound influence exerted by the RAF
Coastal Command on AAF thinking. That…
- p. 610 …Fleet
Air Arm by creating a special RAF command, equipped and trained
for sea search and…
- p. 614 …control in terms comparable to those governing RAF
Coastal Command. Almost from the beginning, the question…
- p. 615 …it had
been the experience of the RAF “that a purely defensive policy only
leads to…
- p. 619 …On the tactical side,
valuable assistance was obtained from an experienced RAF crew
which flew two…
- p. 626 …bomber crews
flying borrowed Bostons in an RAF routine sweep against enemy
airfields." During the seven…
- p. 628 …current allocation of heavy bombers to the RAF.6 N o immediate cut
was contemplated; and…
- p. 630 …was suggested that for the present the RAF
would assume sole responsibility for the air offensive…
- p. 633 …the conduct in co-operation with the
RAF of an offensive against western Europe in 1942…
- p. 634 …T o
the Air Staff, as to RAF Bomber Command, the bomber offensive
had figured as…
- p. 635 …Now that the SLEDGEHAMMERJROUNDUP strategy had
been accepted, the RAF wanted the United States to increase…
- p. 636 …the British desire for reinforcement of the
Middle East; the RAF Coastal Command’s request for…
- p. 637 …I ) allocate to
Great Britain for the RAF and Dominion air forces aircraft according
to an…
- p. 647 …TRIGGER,
a plan to set up in America, with RAF aid, a model air defense sector…
- p. 648 …important fea-
tures were borrowed from the RAF. H e proposed to effect a sharp
cleavage…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 653 …Chaney must provide for their operational control with-
out recourse to the RAF. Chaney’s immediate…
- p. 656 …forces and the RAF, provision must be
made for two chains of command-that of the…
- p. 657 …i.e., Eighth Air
Force = RAF; VIII Bomber Command = RAF Bomber Command) ;
and while it provided…
- p. 659 …Under these conditions, relations with
RAF Bomber Command were more important for the Eighth Air
Force…
- p. 660 …ning for the bomber offensive with the RAF.
Daylight or Dark?
As an argument in favor…
- p. 661 …weapons are the Russian army and the RAF.” 1 5 5
It is significant that this…
- p. 662 …Critics complained of the RAF’s failure to provide adequate close
support for ground operations in…
- p. 663 …Messages from that office cast doubts upon the results of the RAF
bomber offensive and criticized…
- p. 664 …When in 1941 the two air staffs began planning their combined
attack on Germany, the RAF…
- p. 665 …Even before the war, RAF preference had run to night tactics for
strategic bombardment, an attitude…
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