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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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“RAAF”18 pages

  • p. 280 …sonnel of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the AAF that would continue through almost…
  • p. 451 …planes in for a landing at the RAAF field, having left the other five for patrol…
  • p. 469 …At Darwin the RAAF could muster two understrength squadrons of Hudsons, one squadron of Wirraways, and…
  • p. 470 …75 had been turned over to the RAAF, 74 were under repair or awaiting repair, and…
  • p. 472 …they were transferred to control of the RAAF.’5 By the end of March the heavy…
  • p. 473 …Total RAAF losses from combat during March were only three Hudsons; more serious was the steady…
  • p. 475 …Flown by the RAAF’s 75 Squadron, their presence proved a tonic to the Australian garrison…
  • p. 481 …Hewitt, RAAF, director of intelligence; Group Capt. F.R.W. Scherger, RAAF, director of defense; and…
  • p. 484 …In selection of the site, the authorities had been in- fluenced by previous RAAF plans for…
  • p. 541 …of account the limited strength of the RAAF, the Allies no longer faced overwhelming odds in…
  • p. 544 …Indeed, Allied estimates, based in part on information supplied by an RAAF officer who spent months…
  • p. 549 …flyer tended to resent the extent of RAAF control and to find in its administrative forms…
  • p. 783 …A part of the RAAF aircraft strength was said to be “obsoles- cent,’’ but it also…
  • p. 786 …975; Brereton to CO, RAAF, Station Amberley, 24 Jan. 1942, Doc. 978; Brereton to CO, Base…
  • p. 791 …From the RAAF Intelligence Summaries, it would appear that almost all of these Catalinas and Hudsons…
  • p. 798 …Enemy statistics from Allied Air Forces and RAAF Intelligence Sum- maries; Allied statistics from cable status…
  • p. 833 …PAAF PINETREE PM POA POPPY PPI PRO RAAF Rad. RAF RAFDEL RAINBOW No. 5 RCAF Recon…
  • p. 841 …See also Allied Air Forces; RAAF; SWPA. 4473 449-50.. 45f9 47’9 478-847 4927…
Volume One
PLANS AND EARLY OPERATIONS
JANUARY 1939 TO AUGUST 1942
T H E ARMY A I R FORCES
I n World War I1
PREPARED UNDER T H E EDITORSHIP OF
W E S L E Y F R A N K C R A V E N
J A M E S L E A G A T E
Princeton University
University of Chicago
New Imprint by thc
Office of Air Force History
Washington, D.C., 1983
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For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Oface
Washington. D.C. 20402

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