Documents / Document

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

Air Force Historical Studies Office · 863 pages · text from the file's own layer

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. 14 …with the commanding general, who in some instances moved in advance of promptings from Wash- ington…
  • p. 25 …EASTERNAND WESTERNAPPROACHESTO PANAMACANAL ALASKAAND THE ALEUTIANISLANDS PRINCIPALSEAAND AIR ROUTESAS DESIGNATEDBY WASH- ATLANTICFERRYINGAND TRANSPORTROUTESPRIORTO . . . . . . . . . . 297 30' 305…
  • p. 229 …the importance of the Far East Air Force in American strategy, the Air Staff in Wash…
  • p. 292 …Even so, there was in Wash- ington too little intelligence concerning the fluid tactical situation to…
  • p. 302 …The suggestion had been carried out in 1941 with the establishment of the U.S. Special…
  • p. 306 …work permanently with the British Joint Intelligence Committee in Wash- ington. The Combined Military Transportation Committee…
  • p. 389 …to delay the take-off was granted only after an appeal to Wash- ington.’O 3…
  • p. 442 …the time and attention of U.S. officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash- ington…
  • p. 443 …Accidents delayed three planes en route, and one of the P-40’s was completely “washed…
  • p. 454 …promise of weakening the enemy. Attention already had been given in Wash- ington to establishment of…
  • p. 554 …In China, he found the procurement of necessary equipment, even be- fore the outbreak of war…
  • p. 636 …After further negotiations in Wash- ington, the Arnold-Towers-Portal agreement was adopted on z I…
  • p. 693 …Accordingly, Wash- ington was requested to send immediately 50 intelligence officers for training by the RAF…
  • p. 747 …before the Committee on Military Af- fairs, House of Representatives (Wash- 23. See, for instance, William…
  • p. 772 …The exact date of the arrival of air units is not known, as the latter source…
  • p. 799 …The road from Haiphong, Indo- China, to Yunnan was closed by the Vichy government in 1940…
  • p. 814 …Overseas (Ferrying), Air Min- istry, Memorandum on the Movement by Air of US. Forces to the…
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

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 863 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.