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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
Transport designation changed to "troop
Trenchard, Maj. Gen. H.M., 12, 15,
TRIGGER, 578
Trinidad, 121, 124, 162-63, 193, 319-20,
Tripartite Pact, 1 3 5 , 2 3 5
Troop Carrier Comd.: mission, 362; tem-
porarily named Air Transport Comd.,
360, 362; units, 623, 640"
carrier," 640 n
37
324, 3 2 9 - 3 0 7 3327 3551 5x8, 534. 5 3 6 3 7
Truk, 189, 447
Tsingtao, 78
Tubb, Lt. D.B., 394
Tuguegarao, 2 0 7
Tunisia, 240
Tunugdliarfik Fjord, 343
TURBINLITE, 578
Turbinlite squadrons, 634
Turner, Lt. W.L., 386
224 Group Program, 2 5 1
273 Group Program, 2 5 1
Tulag.i7 447-487 450, 47'7 473
U
Ulster. See Northern Ireland.
Umnak 1. airfield, 126, 168, 303-7, 464-69
Umnak Pass, 306, 466
Unalaska I., 126, 168, 306, 467, 469
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 83,
97, 442, 563; aircraft types, 98; col-
laboration, 237, 2 5 2 ; equipment for
China, 487; lend-lease aid to, 132-35,
236, 2459 2499 3'29 3257 329-309 337-391
4 9 567,-69
United Air Lines, 358, 360
United Kingdom. See Britain; Eighth AF.
United Nations, Declaration of, 237, 2 5 1
U S . A m y Air Services (in Australia),
US. Army Forces in Australia, 226, 230-
3 1 , 3707 376, 411-13, 42'1 440
US. A m y Forces in British Isles (Great
Britain), 577-90, 618-20, 627, 636;
Bomber Comd., 605, 618; succeeded by
ETOUSA, 632, 648
US. Army Forces in Far East, 177, 333;
CG, 181
US. chiefs of staff. See Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
US. Forces in Australia, 226, 231
US. Middle East Air Force, 341
US. Military Mission in London, 577, 582
U S . Strategic Bombing Survey, 150
421-22, 482
V
Valle, Gen. Giuseppe, 83
Vandevanter, Lt. Elliott, Jr., 2 1 5 , 219
Venezuela, 3 2 1 ; Pres. of, 281
Very heavy bomber, as category, 60-61,
69
Very high frequency radio: adoption by
US., 290, 293; development by Britain,
289
Very long-range bomber, 60-61, 65-70,
1209 148-499 574
Victoria, 422
Victory Program, 105, 132-33, 150, 238,
246, 249-50
Vigan, 215-16, 219
Villamor, C a p . Jesus, 219
Virginia, 26
Virgin Is., 193
Visayas, 187-88
Viti Levu, 434, 437
Vladivostok, 442
Vunakanau airfield, 382, 447, 480
W
Waco, 406
Wagga Wagga, 422
Wagner, Lt. Col. B.D., 2 0 7 , 219-20, 224,
3859 4257 477
Waingapoe, 385, 390
ainwright, Lt. Gen. J.M., 417, 420, 426
G a k e I ., 174-75, 178-79, 181-82, 201,
2 2 8 , 427-28, 451
Wales, 648
Walker, Lt. Col. K.N., 50, 146
Walker, Lt. W.R., 393
Walled City (Manila), 214
Waller Field, 329
War Council, President's, 194, 265
Ward, 196
War Dept. Circular 59, 264-65, 267
War Dept. reorganization of 9 Mar.
1942, 257-649 579
War Plans Div. (WDGS), 48, 62-64, 1 3 1 ,
139, 146, 258-59, 261-62, 26445, 563,
586-88. See also OPD.
War Shipping Administration, 256
Wanon, 634-37, 639, 650
Washington conference. See ARCADIA .
Washington protocol, 249
W a s p , 158
Watford, 646
Watson Lake, 277
Watson-Watt, Robert, 288, 291- 93, 298-
99, 3 0 1 ; repon: by, 291-93, 2.36
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