“Headquarters”60+ pages
- p. 5 …With the end of the war, Headquarters approved a plan for
writing and publishing a seven…
- p. 8 …The first hectic months after Pearl
Harbor left little time in a military headquarters for consideration…
- p. 9 …Department calling for the appointment by AAF Headquarters of a
historian in accordance with the President…
- p. 10 …After returning
to Headquarters at the close of 1942, Colonel Williams found the
pressure of a…
- p. 11 …T h e first of those points, of course, was AAF
Headquarters itself. Though the Army…
- p. 12 …But, in developing a system
of historical reporting from other headquarters, the “supporting docu-
ments” received…
- p. 13 …in the hurried atmosphere of a military headquarters, and it depended
for its support upon men…
- p. 14 …In most cases, however, the offer of professional assistance from AAF
Headquarters was welcomed, though occasionally…
- p. 15 …close
of hostilities to bring into AAF Headquarters certain of the field per-
sonnel for the…
- p. 18 …Goss served as historian with the Fourth Air
Force and was subsequently brought into AAF Headquarters…
- p. 19 …Air Service Command,
USSTAF, was assigned to Headquarters, USSTAF.
Finally there remains something to be told…
- p. 21 …Simpson of the Office of
Air Force History, Headquarters, United States Air Force. Colonel
Paul has…
- p. 29 …JAPANESEINSTALLATIONS ON NORTHHEAD,KISKA,JULY1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 STH FIGHTERGROUP,PORT MORESBY,1942
HEADQUARTERS,3 gTH FIGHTERGROUP…
- p. 45 …and his
inspections took him to various headquarters, to depots and airfields,
to-and over-the…
- p. 53 …bulk of offensive air units to General Headquarters.
The War Department resisted in turn every proposal…
- p. 197 …The First Air Force, with headquarters at Mitchel Field, New
York, was acting as a major…
- p. 205 …The
approved peacetime garrisons called for one heavy bombardment
squadron and a group headquarters at Bermuda…
- p. 209 …P-36’s in crates, and the headquarters squadron
of the 28th Composite Group took up…
- p. 210 …Defense
Command, which forwarded the material to headquarters of the
Western Defense Command at San Francisco…
- p. 213 …Martin, was organized tactically
into the 18th Bombardment Wing, with headquarters at Hickam
Field, and the…
- p. 214 …provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a…
- p. 221 …4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the…
- p. 222 …AAF Headquarters felt that a striking force of
heavy bombers would be a necessary part of…
- p. 226 …during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air…
- p. 230 …The watchers were
instructed to transmit their observations by telephone or telegraph to
headquarters of the…
- p. 232 …which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure…
- p. 252 …It would appear that the files of General Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific Area, are also i n…
- p. 254 …to General Headquarters, General
Brereton states that he returned to his own headquarters a t Nielson…
- p. 255 …George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in…
- p. 257 …The Summary of Activi-
ties for Headquarters, Far East Air Force, notes: “11:56 General
Brereton…
- p. 268 …At I I I 5 , inter-
ceptor headquarters received specific warning of enemy aircraft
approaching from…
- p. 270 …with a tele-
phone line to operations headquarters. Until the Del Monte base could
be greatly…
- p. 272 …O n another
occasion, 2 7th Group headquarters was falsely informed by telephone
that its A…
- p. 275 …two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December…
- p. 281 …mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations…
- p. 288 …the air planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the…
- p. 308 …General Headquarters was of recent origin, but the desirability of
such a staff in the event…
- p. 310 …both unit and individual training.88 General Headquarters’
responsibility for air force training was limited to…
- p. 311 …WPD’s judgment that relations
between General Headquarters and the Army Air Forces were “in-
definite…
- p. 312 …Gates.lo7
General Headquarters was not consulted until 5 February, but Gen-
eral McNair had long…
- p. 315 …In reality the influence of AAF Headquarters on the actual conduct
of the war went far…
- p. 344 …The director of Air Defense at AAF
Headquarters concurred in every detail with the findings and…
- p. 346 …With its headquarters a t San Francisco, the command
included an extensive area of nine western…
- p. 378 …The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941…
- p. 400 …Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying…
- p. 405 …into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies…
- p. 425 …was to be maintained
between all major headquarters, logistical facilities would be shared,
and local commanders…
- p. 426 …O n 18 January, he located his headquarters at Lembang, ten miles north of
Bandoeng in…
- p. 434 …the United
States and it was the headquarters of USAFIA, whose responsibility in
January became chiefly…
- p. 435 …the 2 I st Air Flotilla and headquarters detach-
ments-moved to Davao during the first…
- p. 442 …officers at Brisbane and of headquarters in Wash-
ington throughout January. Australian and Dutch forces were…
- p. 445 …organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T…
- p. 454 …In Java, General Wavell closed his personal headquarters on 2 5 Feb-
ruary, at which time…
- p. 462 …Final Efforts in the Philippines
When General Brereton’s headquarters had been moved to Austra-
lia…
- p. 482 …He proposed the establishment of
air headquarters in each defensive area, prepared to accept and operate…
- p. 486 …AAF Headquarters had been prompt to recognize the need
for properly equipped photographic squadrons, and shortly…
- p. 491 …In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was…
- p. 517 …Emmons, commanding the Hawaiian Depart-
ment, appealed to AAF Headquarters for additional planes, and these
were…
- p. 546 HEADQUARTERS, 3STH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
- p. 547 HEADQUARTERS, 35TH FIGHTER GROUP, PORT MORESBY, 1942
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Watton, 650 .
Wau, 408, 477-78
Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald, 143, 2 3 1 ,
Weather: Alaska, 168-69, 465-66; India,
509, 5 1 2 ; Java, 3 9 , 400; North At-
lantic, 344-48, 644-45; South Pacific,
417; stations, 126, 1 5 5 , 157, 167, 344-48;
UK, 625, 639, 656-57, 661
Webster, Lt. J.J., 199
Weeks, Sec. of War J.W., 27
Welch, Lt. G.S., 199
Wemyss, Gen. Sir Colville, 2 5 3
West Coast: defense, 154, 167, 169-70,
190, 278, 280-81, zgo-92, 294-96, 298-
99; exposed position, 271-73, 277, 280;
staging bases, 336
Western Air Lines, 358
Western Defense Comd., 190, 264, 279,
284, 643; Alaska, reinforcement, 167-
70, 303-9; defense measures, 293-99;
designated as theater of operations, 277,
294, 3 0 3 ; established, 154
64-65
243, 367-713 391, 396-977 4079 5 0 2
West Palm Beach, 337
Westover, Maj. Gen. Oscar, 31-32, 50,
Westover Field, 523, 5 3 1 , 641
W e s t Virginia, 197
Wheeler, Brig. Gen. Raymond, 495
Wheeler Field, 170-71, 198-99
Wheless, Lt., 2 1 9
Whipple, 398
White, Lt., 467
Whitehorse, 357
Whiteman, Pilot G.A., 199
WIDEWING, 645
Wiecks, Lt. Max R., 393
Wiggins, G / C C.S., 420
Wilbur, Sec. of Navy Curtis, 20
Wilhelmshaven, 600
Williams, Pfc G.B., 2 1 2
Williamstown, 424
Willis, Maj. H.B., 3 3 1
Willltie, Wendell, 2 8 5
Wilmington, 523, 613
Wilson, Pres. Woodrow, 9, 23, 75
I N W O R L D W A R 1 1
Windward Is., 193
Wings:
1st Bomb. Wing, 646
2d Bomb. Wing, 646
13th Composite Wing, 161-62
14th Pursuit Wing, 170
18th Bomb. Wing, 170
18th Composite Wing, 171
19th Wing, 160
23d Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
27th Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
50th Transport Wing, 360
World W a r I, operations, I 1-16
Wright Field, 55
Wurtsmith, Lt. Col. P.B., 412, 476
Wyndham, 408
x
X, Task Force, 560, 613 n
Y
Yakutat, 169, 464
Yamamoto, Adm., 446, 451, 456, 459,
Yamato, 456, 461
Yamishiro, z 16
Yankee Doodle, 662
YB-40 and -41, destroyer escort planes,
Yokohama, 442
Yokosuka, 442
York, Capt. E.J., 439, 4 4 2
York area, 582
Yorkshire, 630
Yorktown, 417, 447-49, 456
Yunnanyi, 498
Yushan, 440, 444
469-70
604
2
Zero, characteristics, 79
Zuiho, 469
Zuikaku, 448-49, 451
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