I N D E X
11s Group Program, 250-51, 560
Opana radar detector station, 197
Operations. See Air Forces; thearers of
operations.
Operations Div. (WDGS), 264, 546, 553,
588, 652. See also WPD.
Ordnance Company (Avn.), 445th,
434
Ordnance depot: in Philippines, 187,
214; in UK, 650
Organization: Air Corps, 2 ~ 3 3 ; Air
Districts, 154; Air Service, 18-29; for
bomber offensive, 575; of commands,
155; consolidation of OCAC with
GHQAF, 3 2 , 114-15; first four air
forces, 1 5 5 ; GHQ Air Force, 31; W D
reorganization (h4ar. 1942), 264-65. See
also AAF; Air Forces.
Ostfriesland, 26
Overrnan Act of 1918, 9
Owen Stanley hits., 408, 416-17, 478,
480
P
P-35, characteristics, 406
P-38: in Alaska, 465; flight to UK, 641-
45; modification, 425
P-39: for Alaska, 465; characteristics, 454,
477; proposed flight to UK, 641-43; in
SWPA, 407, 411, 431
P-40: for Alaska, 465; for British, 634;
characteristics, 231, 401, 405, 454, 4 7 6
77, 488, 490; for China, 339-40, 488;
in SWPA, 384, 393? 396-98, 404-5
4117 4'69 435
P-400, characteristics, 41 I , 432, 477
Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236,
272-73
Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452
Paco, 214
Padloping I., 346
Palau, 376, 382, 393, 447
Palembang, 379, 383, 388, 391
Palmyra I., 1 2 5 , 180, 430-31, 436
Panair do Brasil, 321
Panama, 66, 1 2 1 , 163, 190, 193
Panama, Declaration of, I 2 I
Panama Canal: danger of attack, 164,
272-73, 275, 2 9 9 , 3 0 1 , 303; defenses,
Panama Canal Dept., 160-64; A x Force,
Panama Canal Zone, defense of, 160-65,
Panama Sea Frontier, 548
123-25, 1477 160, 274, 301-3, 536
I 60
274-76, 3029 369
Pan American Air Ferries, Tnc., 322-24,
Pan American Airways, 172, 3 x - 2 3 , 328-
Pan American Airways-Africa, Ltd.,
Pan American Airways Co., 3 2 2 - 2 3
Panay, 406
P a p , 449, 471; Gulf of, 417
Paranaque, 2 14
Paris Air Agreement, 85
Parsel, Capt. E.L., 215-16
3277 338-407 354
29, 3 3 3 7 335-36, 352-537 ?55-S6* 375
322-249 338, 354
Pasirian, 39j
Patch, Brig. Gcn. A.M., Jr., 433-34
Patrick. hlai. Gen. M.h4.: Chief of Air
Corps, 22: 24; Chief of Air Service,
1 1 , 26-28
Patterson Field (Iceland), 344, 346
Pattcrson Field (Ohio), 358, 484
PRY: characteristics, 414, 456-57, 461; in
Pearl Harbor, 1 2 5 , 173, 194-2017 452, 464;
Pacific, 338, 432, 435, 458, 465-68
investigation, 2 6 2
PcarY > 391-93
Pecos, 398-99
Peirse, AM Sir R.E.C., 370-71
Pell, Rlaj. Floyd, 385, 393, 3 9 6
Pennsylvania Central airline, 358
Pensacola, 1 9 2 , 225
Peres, Lt. J.R., 393
Permanent Joint Board on Defense
Perrin, Col. E.S., 399, 420
Perry, Lt. E.S., 393
Pershing, Gen. J.J., 7, 1 0 - 1 1 , 2 3 , 37, 43-
Persian Gulf, 325-26, 338-39
Personnel problems: Air Service, 19;
shortages, 110, 330. See also Labor;
Morale.
Perth, 396, 399, 411
Peru, 301
Philippine Air Force, 203, 219
Philippine Airlines, 375
Philippine Army, 186
Philippine Dept. Air Force, 177, 2 0 3
Philippine Is., 125-26, 134, 147, 235-36,
36748, 377, 380-81, 395, ,417, 425-27,
450, 471; advance warning, ~go-gr;
defense, 175-3, 201-20; reinforcement,
353-54, 404-10, 428, 562; Royce mls-
sion, 418; US. High Commissioner,
190; withdrawal of US. troops, 2 2 0 -
33
(Canada-US.), 1 2 1 , 126, 298
44. 258
1837 223, 227-321 239, 242, 3 1 2 , 3!61
Photo reconnaissance, 189-90, 425, 624
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