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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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“Independence Day”9 pages

  • p. 44 …By Armistice Day forty-five squadrons had been assigned to the front.” But with delays at…
  • p. 47 …up of aircraft from the RAF’s Independent Force, the whole of the French Air Division…
  • p. 48 …One day mission was sufficiently large and suc- cessful to draw more than passing attention. O…
  • p. 80 …resignation from the Army came on the day after T R 440-15 was published. But…
  • p. 186 …War Plans Division to prepare the estimate independently as an Air Staff agency rather than as…
  • p. 258 …Roosevelt attempt curve our independence stop we all know than unless the US has not oppressed…
  • p. 317 …AAF officers were schooled to avoid use of the term “independent air force,” but in most…
  • p. 435 …Brady during days devoted by General Brereton chiefly to consultation with Aus- tralian, British, and Dutch…
  • p. 710 …During World War I, American military forces in Europe had achieved organizational and operational independence, but…
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
GPO : 1983 0 - 416-296 QL 2 V o l u m e No. 1

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