Index

–A–

Aachen, 267, 595-96, 611, 614-16, 634, 636, 688

Allied air bases, 568

Aber, Lt. Col. Earle, 497-98

Adige R., 451, 456, 462-63, 487-89

Valley, 517

Adriatic Base Depot, 331-32

Adriatic Sea, 351, 379, 400-401, 404, 406, 440, 445, 449, 451-53, 484-85

patrolled by MACAF, 382, 391, 399, 468

planned Allied amph. opn., 411, 455n

Advanced Air Depot Areas, 1st and 2nd, 115-16, 130, 132, 549, 551, 557, 575-77, 586, 590

Aegean Is., 468

Sea, 342, 475

Ahrdorf, 616, 618, 676, 690, 694

Ahrweiler, 618, 690, 692-94, 696, 704-5, 761

Air base construction:

clutches, 567

on continent, 562-73

difficulties, 269-70

maps, 120, 564

supply and evac. strips, 567-69

surfacing, 119, 565-69, 571-72

total number, 572

in U.K., 118-21. See also Air Forces

Aviation engineers.

Airborne operations:

ANVIL-DRAGOON, 414, 419-20, 426-31

Arnhem–Nijmegen drop (MARKET), 598-612

Normandy, 70-71, 138, 145-46, 185, 188-89

Rhine crossing (VARSITY), 746, 774

Rome campaign, 391

vs. supply opns., 276-77. See also numbered units. Aircraft Carrier Force, 415, 431

Aircraft types (U.S.):

A-20, charac., 352, 378, 470-71

A-26, first use, 263

A-36, charac., 369

B-17, mod., 16, 18, 727-28

B-24, mod., 277, 421, 499, 637

B-25, charac., 341n, 435, 480-81

B-26, charac., 121-22, 367, mod., 341n

B-29, possible use in ETO, 669, 719, 727

C-47, charac., 250, 426

L-4, charac., 269-70

P-38, charac., 10-11, mod., 589, range, 9-10, 22, 336, 351

P-40, charac., 344, 364, range, 336

P-47, charac., 113, 119, 240, 250, 271, 588-89, mod., 744, range, 9-10, 336

P-51, charac., 11-12, 113, 124, 264, 348, 356, 364, 579, 740, as F-6, 589, range, 49, 336

P-61, charac., 247

Piper Cub, charac., 356, 362-63

Aircrew Rescue Unit No. 1, 523

Air Defence of Great Britain:

CROSSBOW, 527, 533, 535, 542, 544-45

MARKET, 601, 604, 606-7, 609-10

OVERLORD comd., 81

Air Forces (numbered):

First AF (Fr.), 597, 764, 781

First Tactical AF:

air bases, 554, 570-71

Battle of Bulge, 699, 702

Engr. Comd., 570

estbd., 597

Rhine campaign, 629, 764-65, 768, 780-82

Service Comd., 574, 578, 591

strength, 481, 579, 582

Second Tactical AF (RAF):

AEAF control, 110, 3

air bases, 565

air-ground coop., 238, 597, 614, 760

Atlantic Wall, 168, 171

Battle of Bulge, 686, 688, 693, 695

comd., 5, 81, 139, 530, 544

coord. with 9th AF, 130, 180, 203, 208, 249, 254-56

CROSSBOW, 91, 95, 105n

interdiction program, 613, 623, 699, 772-73

MARKET, 601, 604, 606-11

Normandy, ,86, 194, 199-200, 207, 211-12, 218

strength, 596

trans. campaign, 151-53

VARSITY, 774-75

VERITABLE, 758-59

Eighth AF:

accidental bomb. (friendly troops) 230, 234, 251, 670, (Switz.) 735

air drop Netherlands, 784

airlift, 561

ARGUMENT, 3032, 36-43

Atlantic Wall, 169, 171

Battle of Bulge, 681-82, 686, 688, 690, 692, 695-96, 700, 702-9, 711, 717

Battle of France, 228, 231, 233, 237-38, 250, 260, 263, 270

Berlin (first bombing), 48, 53

CARPETBAGGER, 498, 500-503, 505

CBO, 5, 7, 196, (plan to complete) 77

comd. question, 6, 80-82, 319

coord. with ,5th AF, 28, 65, 294, 299-300, 314, 327, 357 59

CROSSBOW, 28, 48, 90-91, 95, 103-5, 122, 176, 289, 292, 528-30, 533-39, 543- 44

engr. topographic bns., 277

eval., 24, 43-44, 51-54, 155, 166, 287, 302-4

FRANTIC, 313-17

leaflet drops, 495-96

logistics, 305, 574, 586, 588, 591-92

losses, 660, 668, 800, (to jets) 745

low morale, 306-8

MADISON, 624, 626

MARKET, 601-10

morale bomb., 639-40

9th AF aid by, 108, 112-16, 125, 134

Normandy, 186, 189-90, 293-94, 208, 212-14

OVERLORD, 11, 72, 142- 48, 167, 278

priority, 109-10, 113, 121, 124, ,28, 579-80

proposed move to France, 574, 668-69

QUEEN, 631-32

radar, 13, 15, 18, 21-25, 286, 296, 666-67, 723, 737

rate of opns., 57-18, 21, 24-25

strat. offensive opns., 294-96, 299-302, (a/c) 23, 164-65, 295, 662-63, 693, 719, 746-47, 772-73, 793, 802-4, (final) 752-53, (oil) 172, 174, 176, 178, 280-85, 295, 299, 641-46, 664, 670, 718, 723-24, 728, 736, 739-40, 743, 751, 794, (ord. and vehicle) 647-48, 783, (trans.) 73, 149, 152-56, 292, 652-56, 665, 722, 725-34, 738, 744, 797, (U-boats) 720, 741

strat. vs. tac. bomb., 279, 289, 293, 296, 299

strength, 8, 12, ,8, 26, 65, 113, 280, 575, 596, 66,

tactics, 56, 305-6

Ninth AF:

ACC, 239, 784

Adv. Hq., 139, 199, 202-3, 244, 268, 552-53

aid to XII Ftr. Comd., 451

airfield campaign, 264-65

ARGUMENT, 31-36, 43

Atlantic Wall, 168-69, 171

bases, 118-21, 548-73

Battle of Bulge, 686-93, 703, 711

Battle of France, 232, 238, 254, 273

charts and maps, III, 120, 564

CHEERFUL, 764

comd. question, 5-6, 8,82, 244-45, 427n

coord. (with 8th AF) 51, (with 2nd TAF) 203, 214, 621

CROSSBOW, 93, 95, 104-6, 121-25, 528, 538, 540, 544

eval., 52, 161, 166, 620

ground support, 207, 239-44,261, 631-32, 681-82, 760, 777-78, 785

interdiction program, 613, 617-20, 623-24, 694, 701, 704

jettisonable tanks, 128-29, 135, 580

leaflet drops, 496

logistics, 126-34, 547-92

main., 129-30, 133, 566, 585-92

MARKET, 601, 604, 607, 609-10

mission, 107, 122, 125

move to continent, 547-53

Normandy, 158-59, 189-94, 196, 200-201, 211-14, 218, 223

oil campaign, 176

orgn., 107-21, 126, 571

OVERLORD, 11, 68, 141-43, 145, 147, 149, 153, (Adm. Plan) 130-34

rate of (opns.) 611, 620, (serviceability) 591-92

rcn., 180, 681

shortages, 128, 136, 559, 580-84

signal units, 202, 268-69

strength, ,2, 107-8, 113, 124, 128, 596-97

supply system, 127-281 131-33, 555-62, 577-85, 590

training, 134-37

trans. campaign, 77, 150-51, 154, 156

transport system, 127, 133, 555-62

VARSITY, 774

Twelfth AF:

ANVIL, 417

9th AF aid by, 135-36

orgn. and comd., 32, 327, 329-31, 335, 419, 482

proposed move to France, 439-41, 450, 464, 481-82

strength, 333

Fifteenth AF:

AA defense, 56

air rescue, 298-99, 520-23

ANVIL, 425

Anzio (opns.) 26, 29, 320-21, 340-41, 351, 354, (plans) 339

ARGUMENT, 53, 30-32, 36-43, 46

Balkans, 474, 640, 747, (strafe Russians) 476, 749

CBO, 7, 173, 325, 358, 385, 441-42

comd. question, 6, 81-82

coord. (with 8th AF) 28, 65, 290, 299-300, 327, 357, 359, (with XII TAC) 432

CROSSBOW, 533, 540

DIADEM, 381, 390-93, 406, 784

eval., 55, 298, 304-5

first (Berlin attack) 745, (1,000-ton raid) 380

FRANTIC, 311-15

orgn., 326-33, 336

OVERLORD, 142

P-51 need, 49

radar, 286, 666-67, 723

range of planes, 640, 668, 719

rate of opns., 25-26, 54-55

special opns., 51)6, 519

strat. offensive opns., 290- 92, 305-6, (a/c) 164-65, 662-63, 793, 804, (completed) 746, 752, (oil) 172, 174, 177-’8, 280-83, 287, 296-98, 302, 642-46, 660, 670, 724, 728, 739, 743, 745, 794, (ord. and vehicle) 647-49, (trans.) 152-55, 652-56, 665, 722, 730-34, 738, 742, 797

strength, 26, 280, 335-36, 434, 596, 653

VARSITY, 774. See also MASAF.

Air-ground cooperation:

AAF coop. (with RAF) 203, 207-8, (with Russ. army) 380

Battle of Bulge, 669-70, chap. 19 passim

Battle of France, 207, 244-45, 247, 249, 251-58, 263-65

doctrine, 202-3, 243, 430

eval., 360-61, 370, 762, 805-8

GRENADE, 759-63

Italy (climax) 445-47, 453, 483, (invasion) 348-49, (Rome) 387-90

MADISON, 626, 628-29

Normandy, 134, 194, 196-201, 205

QUEEN, 631-35

Rhine campaign, 107, chap. 17 passim

S. France, 430-37

use of (GLO’s) 245-46, (L-4’s) 270, (Rover Joes and Davids) 388, 447, 486

VERITABLE, 758-59. See also Airtank coop.

Air Ministry (Brit.) :

airfield constr., 118

CBO, 27, 46-47, 61

comd. question, 320

CROSSBOW, 93, 95, 101, 123, 525, 529-30, 532, 535-36, 545

Norwegian bomb., 720

OVERLORD, 73, 77, 80

strat. vs. tac. bomb., 279

trans. bomb., 650

Air Service Command, USSTAF:

adm., 126-30, 551, 573, 588

air transport, 557-58, 561

base depot, 575-78

trucking, 557

Air support party, 239n

Air-tank cooperation, 239-42, 246, 271-72, 784, 805, 808

Air Technical Service Command in Europe, 573-74

Ala, 461, 463, 466, 486

Albania, 408, 509, 511-14, 518, 520, 523

Albano, 350, 356

Albert Canal, 158, 596

Albes, 462, 486

Alconbury, 498

Aldenhoven, 631, 633

Alessandria, 380, 421

Alexander, FM Sir Harold, 354

on ANVIL, 412

on BRASSARD plans, 399

Cassino (battle) 368, (bomb.) 363, 366

on It. campaign, 387, 420, 482, 489

MALLORY, 403

SACMED, 478, 481

Algiers, 328, 392, 409, 414n, 421, 505, 515

Allied Air Force Area Comd., 331-32

Allied Expeditionary Air Force:

a/c campaign, 213

air rcn., 179

Atlantic Wall, 169-71

attacks on airfields, 164

bridge destruction, 158-59

comd. question, 245, 621

CROSSBOW, 93, 103n, 104-5, 530, 540

disbandment, 620-22

eval., 155, 161, 611-12

interdiction program, 223, 260, 613

MARKET, 602

Normandy, 199

orgn., 5, 108-12, 122-23, 140,552

OVERLORD, 28, 68, 81-82, 145, 179

plans, 141, 147-48, 228

strategy, 598

strat. vs. tac. bomb., 279

strength, 59, 596

supply, 561

training, 136

trans. plan, 73-77, 80, 149-50, 152, 156, 173

Allied Force Headquarters, 327-28, 372, 400, 409, 413, 441, 448, 505

Alps, 374, 456, 516

enemy (escape routes) 448, 455, (supply routes) 390, 432, 480

Partisans, 505

weather conditions, 55, 66, 359, 644, 654, 668, 723, 730, 738, 748. Alsace, 260, 702-3, 706, 764-65

plain, 629, 701

Alsace-Lorraine, 756

Amberg Kummersbrück, 779

Amiens, 12, 123, 151, 154, 268, 496, 550, 555

Amsterdam, 122

Ancon, 194, 202

Ancona, 339, 341, 350, 374, 380, 400-401, 408

Andernach, 700, 705

Anderson, Maj. Gen. Frederick, 31-32, 35, 75, 123, 135, 157, 311, 379, 534-35, 666, 717, 789-90

Anderson, Maj. Gen. Orvil, 790

Anderson, Maj. Gen. S.E., 110, 190-92, 550

Angers, 215, 221, 224, 246

Annecy, 500

Antwerp, 608, 672

capture, 268, 599, 623, 636

port, 69, 585, 612, 614, 635

V-weapon attacks, 542, 544-45

ANVIL:

final plan, 414-17

indecision over, 71, 408, 410-13

prep. for, 4, 8, 325, 401, 405, 407, 418-20

redsgd. DRAGOON, 402

relation (to DIADEM) 384, 391, (to OVERLORD) 391, 409-10. See also DRAGOON.

Anzio:

Allied failure, 371, 409

amph. opns., 26, 32, 328, 336-70 passim, 408, 410

breakout, 384-90

demand on air forces, 373, 376

GAF, 793

lessons, 415, 430, 437- 38. See also SHINGLE.

Apeldoorn, 600

Apennines, 352, 389, 403, 405, 420, 439

APHRODITE, 531, 536, 538

Aprilia, 353-54

Arezzo, 339-41, 350, 374, 388, 396, 401-2

Argenta, 485-86

Gap, 482, 485

Argentan, 219, 246, 249-58, 266-67. See also Falaise.

ARGUMENT. See “Big Week.”

Arlon, 692, 698

Armies (numbered):

First Allied Airborne Army:

MARKET, 600-601, 604, 606

orgn., 245, 554n, 574, 596, 599

plans, 277

VARSITY, 746-47, 771

First Army:

air support, 547, 567, (judgment of) 201

Battle of Bulge, 656, 672-73, 678, 681-82, 686-87, 697, 703, 707-8

Battle of France, 228, 237-38, 241, 243, 248, 255, 273, 276-77, 294-95

Normandy, 299, 202-5

orgn., 243-46

Rhine campaign, 595, 597, 599, 611, 614, 616-19, 623, 631-34

Rhine crossing, 756-57, 759, 762-63, 766, 769-70, 775-79

supply, 556, 561, 567-68

First Army (Can.), 613, 756-57

First Army (Fr.), 574, 597, 629, 702, 756,764-65,777,780

First Army (Ger.), 767

Second Army (Brit.) :

Battle of Bulge, 702-3

Rhine campaign, 599-600, 607, 612, 614, 623

Rhine crossing, 756-57, 762, 771, 773, 775

Third Army:

air support, 547, 550, 567, (eval.) 806

Battle of Bulge, 672, 686, 692, 696

Battle of France, 246-47, 256-60, 265-68, 274-77, 408, 426, 434, 436

orgn., 243

OVERLORD, 141

Rhine campaign, 597, 599, 611, 616-19, 623, 628-29, 635

Rhine crossing, 756, 763, 765-68, 776, 778-80, 785

supply, 556, 561-62, 567-68

Third Army (Ukrainian), 476

Fifth Army:

air support, 352, 417-18, 420, 442, 464, (eval.) 357, 454, (need for) 358-59, 366, 373

Italy (Cassino) 360-63, 366, 376, (Gustav Line) 336-37, 342, 344-49, 354-55, 361-62, 364, 371, 408, (northern) 399-402, 426, 433, 445-56, 468, 477-78, 482, 486-89, 777, (Rome) 385-87, 394, 396, 410-11

proposed move to France, 440-41

troops to ANVIL, 407, 413-14, 419

Fifth Panzer Army, 248, 267, 676, 680, 683, 685, 694-95, 697, 702

Sixth Panzer Army, 676, 678, 680, 682-83, 694, 697, 702, 725

Seventh Army:

ANVIL (build-up), 401, 413-14, (opns.) 267, 431-34, 436, 439-40, 443, (plans) 415

Battle of Bulge, 685-86, 699, 701-2

Battle of France, 503, 505-6

redsgd., 437

Rhine campaign, 597, 629, 635

Rhine crossing, 756, 765, 767-68, 776-77,780

Seventh Army (Ger.) :

on Allied (close support) 205, 249, (interdiction) 222, 250

Battle of Bulge, 683, 689, 694

Battle of France, 234n, 243, 247, 267, 426

CG captured, 267-68

Normandy, 198, 216, 219, 223, 225-26

Eighth Army (Brit.):

air support, 352, 402, 418, 420, 442, 464, 467

El Alamein, 806

Italy (Arno) 399-401,407, 419, 426, 433, 440, 443, (diversion for Anzio) 337, (northern) 445-50, 452-56, 475, 477-78, 482, 485-87, (Rome) 371, 385-87, 396, 408, (stalled) 344, 349, 354

Ninth Army:

Battle of Bulge, 656, 672, 682, 686, 701, 703

Battle of France, 266

dsgn., 263

Rhine campaign, 597, 616, 623-24, 631-35

Rhine crossing, 756-62, 771-75, 778, 785

Tenth Army (Ger.), 346, 387, 488

Eleventh Army (Ger.), 776

Fourteenth Army (Ger.), 488

Fifteenth Army (Ger.), 159, 226, 258

Nineteenth Army (Ger.), 434, 764-65

Armored column cover. See Air-tank cooperation.

Army Air Forces Air Service Comd., 127

Army Air Forces Air Transport Comd., 299, 331, 557, 559

Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Comd., 498

Army Air Forces Board, 99

Army Air Forces Headquarters:

AC/AS (Intel.) 716, (Plans) 110, 717

a/c repl., 579

bomb. doctrine, 279, 284, 305, 537, 638, 722, 725, 727

CBO, 17

comd. question, 81-83, 320

CROSSBOW, 99, 103, 526, 546

Engr. Comd., r 18

logistics, 582

oil campaign, 174-75

OVERLORD, 71, 139

radar bomb., 723

trans. campaign, 78, 653

USSBS, 789

Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 327, 329, 332-33

Army Air Forces Proving Ground Comd., 98-99, 531, 727

Army Air Forces Service Comd., Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 330-35, 417,420

Army Engineer Beach Brigade, 577

Army Ground Forces, 98, 790. See also

Air-ground coop. and numbered units.

Army Groups (numbered):

1st Army Gp., 81

6th Army Gp.:

Battle of Bulge, 685, 701

orgn., 437, 44°-41, 464

Rhine campaign, 597, 617

Rhine crossing, 764, 775-76, 781-82

supply, 554, 590

12th Army Gp.:

Battle of Bulge, 68,82, 690, 704

Battle of France, 263

coop. with 9th AF, 244, 268-69

on interdiction, 260

orgn., 243-44, 268

Rhine campaign, 597, 599, 601, 612, 616

Rhine crossing, 759-60, 766

supply, 275, 277, 560, 569

15th Army Gp., 442, 483, 513

21 Army Gp.:

Battle of Bulge, 672, 686

Battle of France, 254, 267

orgn., 140

OVERLORD, 179

Rhine campaign, 597, 599-600, 622, 635

Rhine crossing, 760, 778

Army Service Forces, 173, 790

Arnheim, 598

Allied offensive, 600-601, 604, 606-8, 611-14, 652

communications, 610

paratroop drop, 276, 609, 771

Arnold, Gen. of the Army H.H.:

Allied airborne force, 245

ANVIL, 412-15

Anzio, 361, 365-66, 371

Battle of Bulge, 710

CG AAF, 18, 25, 160, 660-61, 715-16, 752

comd. question, 79, 81-83, 320-21, 327-28, 62 1-22

coop. with Russians, 319

CROSSBOW, 97-101, 103-4, 123

8th AF move to France, 668-69

FRANTIC, 309-11, 317-18

GAF, 8, 196, 288, 666

ground (offensive) 207, 637, (support) 29

Intel. failure, 681

logistics, 305

long-range escort, 1

MARKET-GARDEN, 608

morale, 306, (bomb.) 639, 650, 727

9th AF, 107, 110, 114

oil campaign, 174, 286

special opns., 506

Swiss bomb., 736

trans. campaign, 75, 79, 161

12th AF move to France, 440

USSBS, 789-90

Arno R., 396, 400-402, 406, 408, 426, 433, 439,478

Arnsberg, 742

Asch, 570

Aschaffenhurg, 690, 700, 706, 724, 737, 776, 781

Aschersleben, 36-37

Ascot, 268, 551

Athens, 302, 474, 475n

Atlantic Wall, 159, 166-72

Atomic energy:

bomb, 85, 542-43, 546, 638

German experimentation, 97

Au Gay, 202-3, 205, 549

Augsburg, 31, 41-42, 44, 290, 738, 782

Aulnoye, 151, 154

Aure R., 197

Austria, 25, 40, 406, 408, 412, 456, 462, 660

a/c factories, 297, 358-59, 399

airfields, 351-52, 472, 572

GAF in, 663, 778

oil targets, 177, 643, 670, 728, 730

ord. campaign, 647

Russ. advance thru, 747, 749

Tirol, 777

trans. campaign, 483, 654, 656, 722, 730-31, 738, 742, 745, 784

Avezzano, 341, 344-45, 377, 387, 391

Aviano, 351-52, 471

Aviation engineers:

airfield constr. (Corsica) 418, (Italy) 345, 393-94, 401, (S. France) 432, 434, 436

Battle of France, 269, 277

eval., 808

Rhine campaign, 601

UTAH beach, 203-4. See also IX and XII Engr. Comds.

Aviation fuel supply, 128-29, 131, 582-85

Avignon, 155, 420-23, 431, 433

Avisio R., 405-6, 463

Avord, 164-65

Avranches, 241, 246-48, 251

AWPD-1, 186

AWPD-42, 801

–B–

Baal, 617, 762

Babcock, Col. Vernon, 130

Babington-Smith, F/O Constance, 84, 89

Bad Berka, 779

Bad Dürkheim, 768

Baden-Baden, 777

Bad Godesberg, 705-6

Bad Kreuznach, 676, 680

Bad Münster, 619, 696, 704-5

Balkan Air Force, 399, 406, 467, 473-75, 510-11

Balkan Air Terminal Service, 510, 520-21

Balkans, 28, 82, 150, 290, 302, 436n, 458, 467, 640

GAF strength, 342, 657

leaflet drops, 509, 517-18

oil, 390, 403

Partisans, 326, 494, 507, 509-11, 513

proposed offensive into, 385, 408, 411, 441, 4557

rail targets, 155, 380, 399, 473, 652, 796

Russ. offensive, 439, 472, 748-49

special opns., 507, 520-24

supply missions to, 507-15

Baltic Sea, 84, 89, 741

Bamberg, 779

Barcus, Brig. Gen. Glenn, 430

Barfleur, 141, 577

Bari, 332, 521-22

Base Air Depot Area, 109, 115, 126-29, 557, 575-78, 580, 586-90

Basle, 623, 735, 777

Bastia, 417, 485

Bastogne, 685, 689, 692-95, 697-701, 709, 711

Batjer, Col. John, 476

Battalions (numbered) :

5th Ranger Bn., 264

816th Engr. Avn. Bn., 563

819th Engr. Avn. Bn., 548, 563-65

820th Engr. Avn. Bn., 563

834th Engr. Avn. Bn., 548, 563-65

Battle of Britain, 138, 804, 806

Battle of the Bulge, 624, 636, 669-70, 715, 717

Allied (battle order) 685-86, (resistance) 683-89, 694-95, 701-11

eval. of air role, 681, 695-96, 704-5, 708, 710-11, 718, 797

German (opns.) 656, 682-83, 701-3, 793, (order of battle) 675, (plans) 672-73, (retreat) 705, 709

intel., 673-82

interdiction, 690-93, 696-701, 704-9, 769

BATTY, 532

Bavaria, 654, 737, 781-82

Baverstock, 126, 577

Bayerlein, Maj. Gen. Fritz, 235-36, 257

Bayeux, 68, 197, 222

Bayreuth, 753, 776

Beaugency, 260, 266

Beaumont-le-Roger, 164-65

Beaumont-sur-Oise, 165

Beauvais, 165, 273

Beaverbrook, Lord, 534

Belfort, 154-55, 165, 219, 436, 505

Gap, 597, 629

Belgium, 258, 615, 708

advance thru, 277, 562, 595

Allied bases, 553-54, 562, 568, 570-72, 574, 585, 652, 665, 669, 703

Atlantic Wall, 166

bridge targets, 157-58, 650

CROSSBOW, 525, 539

GAF bases, 213, 657

labor, 569, 571

leaflet drops, 495-98

line of battle, 596

occupation, 499

rail targets, 74, 150-52, 156, 260, 653, 692

V-weapon sites, 288

Belgrade, 290, 302, 399, 472, 474-75, 511, 513, 523,748

Bénérville, 141, 144, 168

Benson, Capt. Karl, 520

Berchtesgaden, 61, 638

Berg, 678, 770

Bergamo, 405, 423

Bergen, 720

Bergius hydrogenation process, 172, 286

Berlin, 23, 28, 178, 301, 650, 660, 740, 743, 749, 785, 795

a/c industry, 22, 662

attack on, 12, 48-56, 125, 664, 725-26, 729, 734, 737, 742, 744-45, 774, (eval.) 50-52, 738, (GAF opposition) 51, 53, 746, 752

ball-bearing target, 36

CROSSBOW, 86, 530

morale bomb., 638-39, 727, (controversy) 284-85

ord. target, 647-48, 720, 751, 753

Russ. advance on, 746

Berliner Boersen-Zeitung, 53

Bernburg, 31, 34, 36-37

Besancon, 505, 554

Bethune, 93, 153-54

Bielefeld, 647-48, 654, 736, 742

Bierset, 568

“Big Week”:

eval., 34-35, 37, 43-48

GAF, 63, 66, 666

opns., 13, 31-43, 328, 359

Bingen, 600, 654, 664, 676-77, 680, 682

BINGO, 461-63, 466

Biological warfare, 97

Birnn, Col. Roland, 332

Bitburg, 614, 676, 678, 683, 693-94, 700, 705

Bitche, 701

Bitterfeld, 723, 738

Black Forest, 777

Blatzheim, 677-78

Blechhammer, North and South, 281, 291, 297, 299, 302, 642-46, 670

Blida, 420, 505-6, 515

Blizna, 538

Bohlen, 176-77, 285, 289, 300-301, 642, 644, 740

Bologna, 387-90, 397, 401-5, 443, 445-46, 468, 640

capture, 514

5th Army offensive toward, 440, 448, 451, 453-56, 478, 482, 485, 487-88, 784

rail center, 350, 380, 391, 452

Bolzano, 380, 406, 461, 480

Bombsights, 341-71

Bomb types:

Azon-controlled, 728

German controlled glide, 351

leaflet, 496

napalm, 233, 262, 531-72, 783

Tallboy (see RAF BC)

Bonn:

Battle of Bulge, 675-77, 688, 692, 698, 706, 708

GRENADE, 760-61

Rhine campaign, 600, 622, 614, 631, 7690

Bonn-Hangelar, 692, 694

Boppard, 706, 771

Bordeaux, 412, 427, 783

Bor-Komorowski, Gen. Tadeusz, 316

Bottomley, AM Sir Norman:

CROSSBOW, 93, 99, 101

Direc. (No. 3) 724, (No. 4) 753

oil campaign, 640, 645, 653, 670, 721, 733

USSTAF, 59

Bottrop, 644-45

Bournemouth, 550

Boxmeer, 756

Bradley, Gen. Omar:

Battle of Bulge, 685-86, 703

COBRA, 228, 239

CG 1st Army, 199, 203, 230, 708

CG 12th Army Gp., 243, 254, 597, 611-12, 621, 656, 775

comd. question, 620

Eisenhower’s 4 Sept. 1944 direc., 599

MARKET, 601

plans, 623, 756

Rhine campaign, 655, 769

trans. campaign, 161,656

USSBS, 790

UTAH, 71

Brant, E. D., 73, 157, 653

BRASSARD, 399-400

Brauchtisch, FM Walter von, 86, 88

Braun, Werhner von, 88, 102n

Brazil, 330, 450-77

Bremen:

a/c campaign, 9-10, 12, 662

oil campaign, 281, 284-85, 295-96, 642, 645

ord. target, 647

radar bomb., 20, 58

shipbuilding, 19

sub pens, 737, 741, 751

trans. campaign, 736, 771, 773

Brenner Pass:

enemy supply route, 390, 403n, 461

GAF activity, 470

Ger. rate of repair, 460

Partisans, 517

priority target, 468, 478-80, 484

rail target, 297, 350, 406, 456-59, 462-63, 466-67, 481, 486-87, 652, 738, 784

U.S. troops join, 777

Brenta R., 456, 458, 460, 464, 467, 478, 487-88

Brereton, Lt. Gen. Lewis:

AEAF, 140

airlift to Normandy, 188

ARGUMENT, 32

bridge destruction, 157-58

CG FAAA, 245, 596, 600-601, 607n

CG 9th AF, 5, 107-10, 113, 122, 134, 142, 148-49, 151, 186, 199, 245, 268

CROSSBOW, 90, 93, 100

Engr. Comd., 117-18

trans. campaign, 77, 151, 161

UTAH, 71

Brescia, 404, 406, 448, 453, 468

Breskens Pocket, 613

Brest, 164, 220, 246, 262-65, 268, 270, 597, 599, 611-12

Brezna, 522

Brigades (numbered) :

1st Engr. Avn. Brig., 567-68, 570

1st Independent Parachute Brig. (Pol.) , 596, 600-601, 608

2e Brigade de Bombardement, 764

2nd Engr. Avn. Brig., 567-68, 570

3rd Engr. Avn. Brig., 571

Brindisi, 506-7, 509, 51 I-1 2, 515, 520, 522

British:

airfield constr. units, 565

bomb. survey unit, 371

Imperial Staff, 527

Min. of Economic Warfare, 75, 286

MM. of Home Security, 16

morale, 543, 546

petroleum supply, 583-85

proposed Balkan invasion, 408, 441

Special Opns. Exec., 493

troops in (ANVIL) 414, (Battle of France) 207-8, 246, (Greece) 474, 475n, (Normandy) ,86, 190

War Cabinet (“Battle of the Atlantic” Com.) 529n, (CROSSBOW) 89, 93, 102, 526-27, 529n) 533-34, 536, 542, (Night Air Defence Corn.) 529n, (trans. campaign) 79, 151. See also units.

British Airborne Troops Command, 596

British Chiefs of Staff:

ANVIL, 385, 410-11, 413

CROSSBOW, 95, 102, 529n, 534, 542, 545

It. stalemate, 363-65

proposals for all-out attacks, 638-39

12th AF move to France, 440

British Guards Armoured Division, 600, 607

British Joint Staff Mission, 96, 101

Brittany, 597

airfield campaign, 165

Allied base, 270

OVERLORD, 68

rail targets, 217, 249

suggested invasion, 413

supply problem, 275

3rd Army drive, 246, 260-67

Brno, 749

Broadhurst, AVM Harry, 203

Brod, 399, 474-75

Brooke, Sir Alan, 75, 527

Brooks, Maj. Gen. Edward, 6,6

Browning, Lt. Gen. F. A. M., 601

Brühl, 700, 705

Brüx, 176-77, 281, 292, 300-301, 642, 646, 648, 670, 723

Brunswick, 176, 178

a/c industry, 22-25, 53-36, 48, 54, 296, 300

Allied bases, 554

captured, 775

ord. target, 647-48, 740

Brussels, 154-55, 165, 268, 554, 574

Bucharest, 283, 290, 298, 315, 472, 476, 748-49

Budapest, 281, 290, 473, 462, 642, 747-48

Budrio, 443, 446

Buer, 286, 642

BUICK, 505

Buir, 678, 760

Bulgaria, 472, 474, 477, 509-11, 518, 523

Bullay, 700, 704-5, 766

BUNGHOLE, 519-20

Burtonwood, 127, 130

Bushey Heath, 67n

Bushy Park, 67n

Busigny, 153-54

Butler, Maj. Gen. William, 5

Byrd, Rear Adm. Richard, 790

–C–

Cabell, Brig. Gen. Charles, 329, 535

CADILLAC, 504

Caen:

airfield campaign, 163-64

bridge targets, 197, 207

Brit. occupation, 246, 250

Canal, 71

carpet bomb., 208, 293

friendly troops bombed, 251

Ger, defence, 209, 222, 278, 303, 426

OVERLORD plans, 68-71, 138, 141, 144-45, 147

rail target, 190-93

Cairo, 299, 326

Conference, 3, 371, 409

Calais, 150, 154, 158-59, 168, 206

Cambrai, 122, 153-54, 165, 550

Campoleone, 349, 353, 355-56, 360

Canada, 207-8, 251, 258, 267, 386

Canale d’Isongo, 479

Cannes, 426, 429, 481, 748

Cannon, Lt. Gen. John:

ANVIL, 412, (tac. air comdr.) 414, 433, 435-36

CG MAAF, 482

CG MATAF, 326, 469-70, 478

CG 12th AF, 32, 327

15th AF aid, 358

12th AF move to France, 464

Cantal, 503-4

Cap Nègre, 414, 424

Cardonville, 549

Carentan, 144, 193-94> 198, 231

“Carpet,” 56

CARPETBAGGER, 498-502, 507, 510, 518

Carroceto, 353-54, 356, 360, 387

Carrouges, 255-56

Carsoli, 341-42, 345

Casablanca, 326

Conference, 3, 57

Casalecchio, 446, 487

Casale Monferrato, 445, 449

Casarsa, 390, 405, 467

Caserta, 328, 345, 350, 393, 464

Cassino, 345, 408, 410

campaign, 337, 342, 349, 354, 361-70, 373, 376-77, 384-86

mass bombing, 367-68, (oval.) 369-70, See also Monte Cassino.

Castelfranco, 467, 479

Castle Hill, 366, 368

CASTOR, 531

Castrop, 644-45, 740

Catoctin, USS, 430

Cecina, 342, 382, 401

Centocelle, 343, 387

Cesena, 380, 390, 443, 452-53

Châlons, 275, 585

Châlons-sur-Marne, 153

Chalon-sur-Saône, 504-5

Channel Is., 146, 171, 494

Chantilly, 268, 552

Charleroi, 151, 154-55, 574

CHARNWOOD, 208

Chartres, 165, 212, 216-17, 252, 260, 550-54, 568, 585

Châteauroux, 265-66, 503

CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO, 156

Chaumont, 154-55

Cheddington, 495n, 498, 501

CHEERFUL, 764-65, 768

Chelveston, 495n

Chemical warfare, 97, 534

Chemnitz, 301, 315, 725, 727, 729, 731, 740

Cherbourg, 68-70, 146, 170-71, 188, 269, 275, 637

air assault, 186, 192, 200-203

airdrop, 189

airfield campaign, 122

assault plans, 198-200

CROSSBOW, 90, 93, 100, 525

friendly units bombed, 200

occupation, 204, 550, 568, 584-85

Chetniks, 523

Chidlaw, Maj. Gen. B. W., 449, 453, 482

Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), 68-73

Chiévres, 165, 574

Chiswick, 542

Chiusi, 374, 377, 389, 400

Chivasso, 397> 445

Churchill, Prime Minister Winston:

ANVIL, 385, 4.09-10, 411n, 413

Anzio, 337

ARGUMENT, 32, (vs. SHINGLE) 358

Balkans, 82

CROSSBOW, 85n, 527, 529n

It. campaign, 640

OVERLORD, 3--4, 80

radar, 140

robot B-17’s, 728

supplies to Warsaw, 316-17

trans. plan, 75, 78-79, 152

U-boats, 720-21

UTAH, 70

Yalta, 724

Ciampino, 343, 427

Ciotat, 426-27

Cisterna, 349, 354, 360, 386

Civitavecchia, 339-41, 345, 387, 396, 400

CLARION, 639, 732-35, 761-62

Clark, Gen. Mark, 32, 358, 363, 366. 401n, 412, 453, 486

Clay, Lt. Gen. Lucius, 790

Clerf, 697, 705, 708

Cleve, 757-58

Cloyes, 212, 260

Coblenz:

Battle of Bulge, 675-77, 682, 686, 688, 690, 692, 694, 699-700, 704, 706, 708

GRENADE, 761

Rhine campaign, 600

Trans. campaign, 628, 654, 657, 736, 780

Coblenz-Engers, 706

Coblenz-Güls, 705

Coblenz-Lützel, 688, 704, 706

COBRA:

air opns., 232-34

air-tank coop., 239-42

artillery spotting, 270

bomb. results, 234-37

friendly forces bombed, 230, 234, 236

plans, 228, 231-32

weather problem, 228-30, 232

Cole, ELM., 805

Colleville, 559

Colli Laziali, 337, 348, 350

Collins, Lt. Gen. J. L., 198-99, 205

Colmar, 505, 701, 764

Canal, 764

Pocket, 629, 764-65

Cologne:

a/c campaign, 663

Battle of Bulge, 675-80, 688, 699, 704, 706, 708

GRENADE, 760-61, 763

motor vehicle target, 647-48

QUEEN, 631, 633-34

Rhine campaign, 600, 612, 769

trans. campaign, 618, 623, 652, 654, 657, 719, 725

Cologne-Kalk, 688

Combined Air Transport Operations Room, 561-62

Combined Bomber Offensive:

air superiority, 58-59, 63

area bomb., 58

comd. question, 5-6, 28

coord. (8th and 15th AF’s) 6, 28, 41, 55, 66, 325-27, 397, 433, (RAF and AAF) 7, 27, 30

vs. CROSSBOW, 95, 97, 101-2, 529

direc. of 13 Feb. 1944, 27-28

end, 56-57, 484

eval., 21-22, 56-66, 196, 658

ftr. escort, 9-11, 16, 22

opns., 8-9, 25-26, 63

plans, 7-8, 12-13, 30-31, 57, 67, 76-77, 173

vs. SHINGLE, 358

strength, 26-27

target priority, 15, 27, 40. See also Strategic bombing offensive.

Combined Chiefs of Staff:

Balkan bomb line, 477, 749

CARPETBAGGER, 498

CBO, 7, 57, 121, 327

comd. question, 6, 56, 81-82, 320-21

CROSSBOW, 101-2

ground support, 29, 724

mass air attacks, 365-66

oil campaign, 174-75

OVERLORD, 3, 26-28, 68, 70

S. France invasion, 409-13, 420

shuttle bombing, 309

strategy in MTO, 478

target priority, 640, 653, 666, 721-22

12th AF move to France, 48, 440-42, 449, 464

Combined Operational Planning Committee, 30, 68, 536-37

Combined Operations Section, 244

Combined Strategic Targets Committee, 642-43, 654, 657, 718-19, 733, 753

Commands (numbered):

I Air Service Area Comd., 331-33

II Air Service Area Comd., 331

III Air Service Area Comd., 331

VIII Air Force Composite Comd., 498

VIII Air Force Service Comd., 115-16, 574, 592

VIII Air Support Comd., 107-8, 110, 112, 121

VIII Bomber Comd., 12, 18, 103n, 105, 122,190, 211

VIII Ftr. Comd.:

Battle of France, 232, 254-55, 260

functions, 16, 33, 145

Hq, 574

losses, 303

MARKET, 601

IX FC control by, 123, 125

Normandy opns., 190, 194, 196, 211-14

orgn., 11

strength, 10

VIII Tactical Air Service Area Comd., 108

IX Air Defense Comd., 114-15, 247

IX Air Force Service Comd.:

air depot gps., 550-52, 575-77, 586, 590

airdrome sqs., 549

assembly, 129, 586-87

bases, 572

battle-damage repair, 590-91

CG, 115, 558

chart, 576

functions, 126-34, 141, 239, 548, 574-75

Hq, 549, 551, 586

modification, 129, 586, 588-89

MR&R sqs., 130, 134, 550, 587, 590-92

orgn., 115-21, 575-77

POL, 133, 583-85

QM Truck gps., 556

repl. control depots, 117

salvage, 134, 592

service teams, 116-17, 127-33, 550-52, 556, 580, 590

strength, 116-17, 126, 131, 551

tac. air depots, 115-16, 121, 127, 129-30, 575

training, 136-37

transport system, 127, 133, 555-62, 568-69, 584-85. See also AA DA; BADA; Ninth AF.

IX Air Support Comd., 112-13

IX Bomber Comd.:

bases, 119-20, 548, 550

Battle of France, 230, 234, 238, 261-64, 271, 274

coop. with RAF BC, 207-8

CROSSBOW, 104

Normandy, 190, 193, 197-200, 206, 208, 212-13, 216-17, 223

orgn., 110-12, 550

OVERLORD, 141

strength, 112, 124

targets, 121-25, 257, 261

training, 135. See also 9th Bomb. Div.

IX Engineer Comd.:

air base constr., 131, 141-42, 203, 240, 548-49, 562-73, 584

CG, 118, 570

orgn., 117-19, 552, 569-71

strength, 563

training, 137, 566

IX Fighter Comd.:

bases, 119-20

Battle of France, 238

ftr.-bomber dsgn., 125n

Normandy, 190, 192, 194, 200, 212-13

orgn. and functions, 11, 112-13, 123-25, 134-35, 140

OVERLORD, 141

IX ‘Tactical Air Comd.:

ACC, 239-40

bases, 119-20, 547, 549-50, 553-54

Battle of Bulge, 675-77, 682, 686-88, 692, 697-98, 703, 707-8

Battle of France, 228, 231, 238, 242-44, 249, 255-56, 272-75

mission, 547, 552

Normandy, 205, 208, 212, 254

orgn., 113, 125, 141, 202-3, 597

Rhine campaign, 600, 613-23, 631-33

Rhine crossing, 760-63, 769-70, 774, 778

supply, 131

IX Troop Carrier Comd.:

bases, 119-21, 548, 554-55, 570, 587

Battle of Bulge, 692-94, 700

CG, 114, 427n

FAAA orgn., 596

functions, 554, 557-62, 574, 578

MARKET, 601, 609-10

Normandy, 188

OVERLORD, 145-48

Rhine campaign, 774

strength, 113-14, 558, 579

training, 136

XII Air Force Engineer Comd., 333, 416-17

XII Air Force Service Comd., 330-33, 417, 441

XII Air Force Training and Replacement Comd., 331, 333, 335

XII Air Support Comd.:

opns. (Anzio) 339, 344-49, 352-55, (N. Italy) 362, 374, 377-78

orgn., 333

redsgd. XII TAC, 335, 385

XII Bomber Comd., 333, 335, 372

XII Fighter Comd., 335, 449-51, 468

XII Tactical Air Comd.

ANVIL-DRAGOON, 420-21, 425, 428, 430-37

bases, 554, 570

control of Navy planes, 415

move to Corsica, 418, 442

opns. (Italy) 385-86, 388, 390, 396, 402-3, 443-45, 449, 453, (Rhine campaign) 617-19, 623, (Rhine crossing) 764-65, 781

orgn., 335, 393, 450

USSTAF control, 437, 440-41

XII Troop Carrier Comd„ 114, 333, 335, 419

XV Air Force Service Comd., 331, 333

XIX Air Support Comd., 112-13

XIX Tactical Air Comd.:

ACC, 262

bases, 119-20, 547, 549-50, 553-54, 567

Battle of Bulge, 673-80, 686-88, 692, 698-99, 703, 705, 709-10

Battle of France, 243, 247, 249-52, 255-57, 265-66, 275

mission, 547, 552

orgn., 113, 244, 597

Rhine campaign, 600, 613, 616-19, 623-24

Rhine crossing, 766, 768, 771, 778

supply, 131

XXII Tactical Air Comd.:

opns., 452-55, 466-68, 471, 478-80, 483-87

orgn., 450, 482

proposed move to France, 481

XXIX Tactical Air Comd.:

bases, 554

Battle of Bulge, 673, 682, 686, 688, 692-99, 703, 707

orgn., 552, 597

Rhine campaign, 616-18, 623, 629-33

Rhine crossing, 758-63, 772-74., 778

Committee of Operations Analysts, 799-801

Communications Zone, 133, 555-56, 561, 568-69, 571, 578, 583-85

Compiegne, 195, 274, 574-75, 578, 586

Conflans-Ste.-Honorine, 215, 261

Coningham, AM Sir Arthur:

AEAF Adv., 203

coop. with Vandenberg, 254, 622

CROSSBOW, 530

interdiction, 213, 218

2nd TAF, 110, 139-40

VERITABLE, 758

Constanza, 748

Continental (Central) Air Depot Area, 575, 587

Cook, Lt. Robert, 521

Corlett, Maj. Gen. Charles, 207

Cormeilles-en-Vexin, 164-65

CORNCOB, 487

Corps (numbered):

I Corps (Fr.), 764

II Corps, 345-46, 354, 386, 454, 486-87

II Corps (Fr.), 764

II Corps (Pol.), 484

III Corps, 698, 701-2

IV Corps, 486-87

V Corps, 192, 196, 198, 239, 614, 616, 631, 633, 682, 687, 702, 759

5 Corps, 396, 456, 484

VI Corps, 348-49, 353, 386, 390, 767-68, 777

VII Corps, 198, 201, 204-6, 219, 231, 237, 239, 241, 271-73, 611, 614-15, 631-33, 701-2, 760, 763, 775

VIII Corps, 204-6, 239, 241, 260, 262-64, 633, 682-83, 686, 698, 701-2, 766 to Corps, 345-46

XI Corps, 777

XII Corps, 611, 624, 626, 698, 701-2, 766-67,771

XIII Corps, 762, 775

XIV Corps (Ger.), 488

XV Corps, 256, 267, 765, 768, 776-77, 781

XVI Corps, 762-63, 775

XVIII Airborne Corps, 701-2

XVIII Corps, 596

XIX Corps, 204-7, 236, 239, 273, 611, 614-15, 631, 762, 775

XX Corps, 274, 611, 617, 624, 626, 768

XXI Corps, 764-65, 768, 777

30 Corps, 624, 701-2

LXXXIV Corps (Ger.), 205

Corsica:

Allied base, 374, 387n, 391, 402-3, 405, 414, 417, 434-36, 443, 445, 449-51, 471, (for ANVIL) 416-18

bombed by GAF, 392

conquest, 325-26, 408

Cosina R., 455-56

Cotentin Peninsula, 69-70, 138, 143, 145-46, 148, 222, 262, 270. See also Cherbourg. Cottbus, 725, 727, 731

Coulommiers, 568

Coutances, 193, 238, 241-42

Creil, 151-52, 154, 165, 551, 556

Cremona, 402, 404-5, 452

Crete, 342, 346, 351

Cricqueville, 549

Crookham Common, 587

CROSSBOW:

aerial rcn., 84, 93, 102, 126, 529-30

American mission, 99-100

controversy, 21, 24-25, 28, 48, 54, 100-104, 123, 173-76, 278-79, 284-85, 288-89, 297, 304, 528-37, 544-46

Eglin Fld. tests, 97-104, 106, 531, 536, 541

eval., 106, 540-41, 546

Intel., 84, 91-93, 525, 529n, 531, 534, 538, 541, 545-46

Joint CROSSBOW Com., 535-38, 543

opus., 89-91, 95, 1046, 121-25, 527-34, 537-44

orgn., 93, 95, 535, 541, 544-45

plans, 85, 89, 93, 95-97, 526-27, 530-39, 543

War Dept. Com., 96-97, 99

CRUMPET I, 447

II, 447-48

Cunningham, Fleet Adm. Sir A. B., 416, 469

Czechoslovakia, 297, 299-300, 472, 572, 660, 668, 745, 776, 783, 785, 798

–D–

Dahlem, 676, 679, 688, 692, 695, 697

Dahn, 768

Dalmatia, 382, 399, 455n, 469, 475

Danube R., 412, 777, 784

mined, 177, 281, 297, 654, 797

Plain, 462

Russ. offensive, 472-73

ships bombed, 399

Valley, 776

Darcy, Brig. Gen. Thomas, 482

Darmstadt, 624, 626, 677, 680, 682, 776

Dasburg, 702, 705, 708-10

Daun, 617, 690, 693

D’Aurelio, Gen., 372

Deane, Maj. Gen. John, 309-12, 319, 476-77, 748-49

Debrecen, 312, 472-73, 748

Dempsey, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles, 757

Denmark, 33, 36, 86, 500

Depots (numbered):

4th Base Air Depot, 577

5th Strategic Air Depot, 574

20th Repl. Control Depot, 551

Desert Air Force:

Balkans, 475

coop. (with XII TAC) 385-88, 390, (with XXII TAC) 453

Italy (BINGO) 461, 466, (invasion) 344, 356, 360, (northern) 467, 478-80, 483, (STRANGLE) 374, 377-78, (support 8th Army) 352, 354, 396, 402, 449-56, 485, 488, (support 5th & 8th Armies) 415, 418, 433, 442-43, 446- 48, 451

MANHOLE, 519

strength, 402, 419

units to BAF, 399

Devers, Gen. Jacob:

ANVIL, 410, 412, (bombing) 428

Anzio air assault, 357

Battle of Bulge, 685, 701

CG NATOUSA, 327

CG 6th Army Gp., 440, 597, 6,2, 620, 623, 669, 776, 780

CROSSBOW, 96

Monte Cassino bombing, 362-63, 368

Rhine crossing, 756

DIADEM, 384

eval., 395-96, 412

GAF, 392-93, (losses) 394

MAAF losses, 393

merger with STRANGLE, 377, 383

opns., 388-91, 411, 439

plan, 386

relation to BRASSARD, 399-400

“Dicing missions,” 180-81

Dietrich, Col. Gen. Joseph, 248

Dieuze, 617, 627

Dijon, 164, 265, 273, 435, 500, 504, 519, 554

Dill, FM Sir John, 96

Dives R., 138

Divisions (numbered) :

1st Air Div., 734, 736-37, 741

Airborne Div., 596, 600-601, 604, 606

1st Bomb. Div., 15-16, 23, 37, 233. See also 1st Air Div.

1st Ftr. Div., 112

1st SS Panzer Div., 249, 256

2nd Air Div., 734, 737, 741

2nd Armored Div., 236, 240, 242, 256, 775

2nd Armored Div. (Fr.), 629

2nd Bomb. Div., 16, 23, 37, 230, 686, 690. See also 2nd Air Div.

2 Div. (N.Z.), 363n, 367

2nd Inf. Div., 265, 683

2nd SS Panzer Div., 205, 221, 223-24,

249, 257, 696

3rd Air Div., 502-5, 734, 737, 740-41

3rd Armored Div., 240, 242, 245, 256, 692,775

3rd Bomb. Div., 15-16, 23, 37, 233, 667. See also 3rd Air Div.

3rd Inf. Div., 409, 765

3rd Parachute Div. (Ger.), 220

4th Armored Div., 252, 689, 776

4 Div. (Indian), 363n, 366

4th Inf. Div., 236, 683

5th Inf. Div., 274, 628

6 Airborne Div., 596

6th Armored Div., 768, 776

7th Armored Div., 255, 272, 692, 702

8 Div. (Indian), 478

9th Armored Div., 689, 769

9th Bomb. Div, 550-51, 554, 579, 614-15, 618, 623-24, 627-30, 633-34, 682, 690-92, 699, 703-4, 758, 760, 763, 769, 773-74

9th Inf. Div., 202, 237, 616

9th SS Panzer Div., 220, 224, 604

10th Armored Div., 689

10th Mountain Div., 486-87

10th SS Panzer Div., 220, 224, 604

11th Armored Div., 776

16th SS Panzer Grenadier Div., 480

17th Airborne Div., 562, 596

7th SS Panzer Grenadier Div., 221

21st Panzer Div., 193

28th Inf. Div., 683

29th Inf. Div., 265

30th Inf. Div., 230, 234, 236, 248, 615

36th Inf. Div., 362

43 Inf. Div., 600

45th Inf. Div., 409, 430

50 Inf. Div., 600

63rd Inf. Div., 768

69th Inf. Div., 776

77th Div. (Ger.), 198

78 Div., 363n

79th Inf. Div., 252, 267

82nd Airborne Div., 145-46, <86, <89, 548, 596, 600-601, 604, 606-8

83rd Inf. Div., 266

84th Inf. Div., 762

84th Inf. Div. (Ger.), 258

90th Inf. Div., 628

96th Inf. Div., 628

99th Inf. Div., 683

101st Airborne Div., 145-46, 186, 188-89, 548, 596, 600-601, 604, 606-7, 689

104th Inf. Div., 613

106th Inf. Div., 683

16th Panzer Div., 249

17th Inf. Div., 248

254th Inf. Div., 768

265th Inf. Div. (Ger.), 220

275th Inf. Div. (Ger.), 225

331st Inf. Div. (Ger.), 258

344th Inf. Div. (Ger.), 258

352nd Inf. Div. (Ger.), 207

356th Inf. Div. (Ger.), 480

Doenitz, Grand Adm. Karl, 738, 786, 799

D’Olier, Franklin, 790

Dollbergen, 723, 740

Donohue, Lt. Harold, 521

Doolittle, Maj. Gen. James:

ARGUMENT, 31-32, 38

Atlantic Wall, 169

Battle of France, 254, 637

CG 8th AF, 6, 573, 753

CLARION, 735

CROSSBOW, 104, 285, 305, 529, 536-37

8th AF bombing accuracy, 741-42

GAF, 288, 661, 666, 744

interdiction, 213, 706

MARKET, 609

morale bombing, 639

oil campaign, 176

ord. campaign, 720

OVERLORD, 144-45, 147-48

relations with Eisenhower, 319

Rhine mass bombing, 655, 669

Special Services, 306

strat. air, 279, 717, 754

trans. campaign, 75

USSTAF air discipline, 668

Dornberger, Maj. Gen. Walter, 86-88, 102n

Dortmund, 645, 654, 732, 740, 742

Douve R., 189

DOVE, 430-3’

DRAGOON:

airborne opn., 428, 431

air opns., 423-25, 433-36, 443

comd., 415-16

eval., 437-38

Ger. (retreat) 435, (strength) 427

landings, 429-30, 432

naval and air diversion, 426-27

prep. for, 407

redsgn. of ANVIL, 402, 408

SHAEF control, 437, 440-41

Drava R., 474

Dreiborn, 678, 682, 688

Dresden, 725, 727, 731-32, 740, 749

DIVUX, 214, 253, 260

Drvar, 510-11, 521, 523

Dülmen, 729, 773

Düren:

Battle of Bulge, 675-77, 679, 695, 697, 703

GRENADE, 759-60, 763

Rhine campaign, 614, 631-33, 756

trans. target, 615-19

Düsseldorf:

Battle of Bulge, 673, 678, 7067

GRENADE, 757

oil campaign, 642

ord. targets, 301, 648

Rhine campaign, 600, 756

trans. campaign, 623

Duisburg, 644, 654, 706, 760

Dulce, 459, 461

Dumpelfeld, 618, 761

Dunkerque, 168, 672, 806

DUNN, 522

Dunn, Maj. Bruce, 522

Dunquerque, 291

Durance R., 431

–E–

Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira:

ANVIL, 385, 410, 412-13, 415

Anzio, 360-61

ARGUMENT, 32, 358

bridge destruction, 157

Cassino bomb., 362-63, 368

CG AAF/MTO, 327

CG 8th AF, 108, 498

CG MAAF, 6, 29, 326, 328-29, 462, 466, 482

CG USAAFUK, 8

comd. question, 320, 621

counter-air opns., 358 (vs. jets) 730

CROSSBOW, 93

15th AF (combat losses) 303, (strength) 336

Fr. air bases, 668

FRANTIC, 311-13

H2X, 18

Italy (interdiction) 371, 376, 378, 394, 478, (stalemate) 640

mass bomb., 366-67, 733

morale, 307

MTO special opns., 506, 523

oil campaign, 643

Ploesti bomb., 298

trans. campaign, 78

12th AF move to France, 440, 464

USSR liaison problem, 319, 476, 748-50

Eastern Command, 311, 314-15, 317-19

East Prussia, 426, 672, 702

Echternach, 672, 680, 683, 694, 698

Edwards, Maj. Gen. Idwal, 327, 367

Eglin Fld., Fla., 98-100, 104

Ehrang, 154, 688, 690, 692, 696

Ehrgott, Col. H. W., 131, 572

Eindhoven, 600-601, 604, 607

Eisenach, 776

Eisenhower, Gen. of the Army Dwight:

airlift, 188-89

Allied airborne force, 244-45

ANVIL, 385, 409-11, 413-14, 419

area bomb., 284, 638-39, 727

Atlantic Wall, 169

Battle of Bulge, 685-86, 701, 703

comd. question, 79-83, 142, 319, 321, 327, 596, 620, 622

CROSSBOW, 99, 102-3, 526-27, 531-35, 540, 545

Direc., 321,599-600

FRANTIC, 310, 316

interdiction, 371

logistics, 305

Normandy invasion, 190, 205, 226, 228

oil campaign, 174-75, 179, 718

OVERLORD, 7, 58, 67, 70-71, 73, 144, 146, 148, 173

Rhine (campaign) 598, 612-13, 623, 649-50, 656, (crossing) 747, 756

SHAEF (comd.) 4-6, 207-8, 279, 426, 436-37, 721, 807, (mission) 804

St.-Lô bomb., 237

Swiss bomb., 735

trans. campaign, 72, 75-76, 78-79, 149-51, 161

12th AF move to France, 440-41

USSR liaison problem, 749

Elba, 390, 399-400, 437

Elbe R., 776, 778

Eller, 690, 693, 696, 705, 763, 766

Elliot, AVM W., 399

Elsenborn, 678, 683, 702-3

Elster, Maj. Gen. Eric, 265-66

Emmerich, 757-58, 775

Empoli, 340, 377, 397

English Channel, 69, 72, 140-41, 143, 146, 160, 166, 585, 598

Ensdorf, 628

Epinal, 154-55

Erft R., 763

Erfurt, 776

Erkner, 36, 48-49, 51-52

Escaut Canal, 596

Eschweiler, 615, 631-33

Essen, 652, 734, 742

Etang-de-Lindre dam, 617

Etaples, 168, 260

Ettinghausen, 693, 770

European Advisory Committee, 535

European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, 96, 99, 573

Euskirchen:

Battle of Bulge, 676-77, 679, 682, 688, 690, 692-700, 705, 708

bridge targets, 618, 623, 634

Rhine campaign, 615, 635

trans. target, 617, 761

Evacuation and infiltration, 518-24. See also Rescue.

Evreux, 122, 165, 214, 219

–F–

Fabriano, 339, 350, 374

Faenza, 390, 403, 452-53, 455-56, 464, 467-68

Falaise:

campaign, 193, 208, 246, 251

Falaise–Argentan (gap) 266, 269, 705, (pocket) 253-58

Ger. defense, 248, 250. See also Argentan.

Fano, 377, 380, 382, 389, 396, 401

Fécamp, 168-69

Ferrara, 397, 445, 448, 452, 482, 485-86

Ferry Pilot (Transport) Service, 331-33

Field Manual (31-35) 807

(100-20) 186, 196, 209, 227, 807

Filton, 126, 129

Fischer-Tropsch hydrogenation process, 172

Fiume, 39, 41, 358, 455n, 468-69, 522, 724, 730-31

Flers, 250, 254

Florence:

Allied drive toward, 396, 400

captured, 401, 408

rail lines, 339-41, 348, 350, 374, 377-80, 387n, 388-89, 395, 397, 402-3, 433

Florennes, 165, 568

Floridsdorf, 283, 644, 646, 742, 745

Foggia, 26, 41, 281, 325-26, 332, 366, 371-72, 441

Foglia R., 433

Foligno, 339-41, 350+ 389, 396, 399

Force 163, 409, 414n

Forêt d’Andaine, 223

de Conches, 223

d’Ecouves, 223

de la Haye, 274

de Parroy, 617, 629

de Senonches, 223

Forli, 391, 394, 443, 453, 455

Formia, 345, 386

Fort Driant, 617

Fort du Roule, 201

France:

Air Service Comd., 574

Army B, 435, 437

Battle of, 228-77

crisis, 701

GAF strength, 342, 346, 351, 392, 657

labor, 569, 571

leaflet drops, 495-98

liberated, 499, 645, 658

Normandy invasion (opns.) 185-227, (plans) 67, 70, 83, 138

oil campaign, 283, 292

railways, 73, 150, 156, ,60-6,, 214-18, 291, 637, 798 (see also trans. campaign)

resistance movement (see Maquis)

southern invasion (opns.) 408-38, (plans) 290

sub pens, 799

troops in (ANVIL) 414, 428, 435-37, (BRASSARD) 399-400, (Rome campaign) 386, 400-401

units in MAAF, 326, 330-32. See also units.

Frankfurt, 25, 48, 54, 58, 176

a/c campaign, 275

Allied air base, 585

Battle of Bulge, 677-78, 680, 682, 700

Rhine campaign, 599, 611, 624

trans. campaign, 652, 654, 657, 732, 741, 770

USSBS Hq., 790

FRANTIC:

bases, 310-1 I

8th AF, 313-16

eval., 318-19

JOE, 3,1-12

OVERLORD, relation to, 311, 313

plans, 3089

Russ. attitude, 309-11

supplies to Warsaw, 316-17

targets, 311-12

Frascati, 350, 353, 356, 393

Fraulautern, 628

FREEDOM. See Rescue of AAF P/W’s. Freiburg, 618, 735

French Air Force, 331-32, 391, 418, 432. See also units.

French Expeditionary Corps, 345

French Forces of the Interior, 217, 266, 427, 503-6. See also Maquis.

Freyberg, Gen. Bernard, 363, 366

Friedrichshafen, 178, 292, 294, 648, 735, 747

Fritsch, FM Werner von, 86

Frosinone, 345, 352, 387

Fürth, 41-42

Fulda, 676-78, 700, 706

FULL HOUSE, 145, 190

–G–

Gaggenau, 301, 647-48

Galland, Adolf, 166, 663, 786

GARDEN, b00, 606-1 t

Gardner, Brig. Gen. Grandison, 98-99, 531

Garigliano R., 345, 362, 386

Garrod, AM Sir Guy, 482-83

Geilenberg, Edmund, 287, 64t, 718, 728

Geilenkirchen, 611, 624, 703

Geldern, 757-59

Gelsenkirchen, 17, 286, 644, 732, 734, 741

Gemünd, 676, 679, 687, 693-94, 697, 705-8

Gemünden, 705, 776

Genck, 615

Geneva, 504-5

Genoa:

bridges, 377, 391, 403-6

capture, 489

coastal defenses, 416, 424

Gulf of, 468-69

harbor targets, 380, 425

trans. campaign, 421, 443, 452

German Air Force:

a/c characteristics (Ar-234) 659, (FW-190) 10, 661, (He-111) 542n, (Ju-87) 392, (Ju-88) 10, 273, 343, 392, (Me-109) 10, 661, (Me-163) 659, 740, (Me-262) 659-60, 729, 740, (Me-410) 343

on Allied air at Normandy, 227

attack on Patton’s Hq., 247

combat losses, 46-47, 63, 177, 665, 793, 803-4

controlled glide bombs, 351

eval., 806

ftr. tactics, 10, 23, 37-39, 176, 744

General QM Dept., 802, 803n

jet a/c, 279, 659-60, 666, 715-16, 728, 739-40, 743, 793

opns. (Anzio) 346, 350-51, 354-55, 357, 369, 793, (Battle of Bulge) 687, 689, 701 703, (interception) 122, 284, 289, 292, 301, 595, 604, 606, 608, 612, 759, 775, 778, (Normandy) 185, 190, 195, 793, (Poltava attack) 313-14, (Rhine crossing) 770

OVERLORD challenge, 8-13, 27

POINTBLANK, 57, 69, 162-64

strength, 9, 13, 55-56, 58-64, 66, 77, 139, (France) 138, 162, 166, 195-96, 247, 423, 432, (Germany) 287, 657-58, 660-61, 663-64, 666, 671, 719, 754, 781-82, 792, 807, (Italy) 387, 392, 470-71, (MTO) 342, 346, 379

units (Air Force Comd. West) 595, 673, (Fliegerkorps II) 195, (Jagdkorps II) 195, (Luftflotte 3) 195, 247, 595, (Luftflotte Reich) 62

Germany:

a/c production, 9, 45, 59-62, 69, 195, 288, 658-60, 792-93

Army Gp. B, 218-19, 225, 235, 673

Army Gp. G, 765-68

Balkan retreat, 513

defenses, 56, 170-71, 281-83, 495, 595, 604, 606-7, 757-59

F-boats, 381

leaflet drops to, 495-96, 498, 518

morale (civilian) 7, 13, 178, 638, 672, 746, 802, (troop) 193, 198, 201-2, 209, 227, 235, 237, 246, 264, 266, 356-57, 368, 429, 454

National Redoubt, 779, 781-82

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, 221, 672, 743

oil resources, 172, 280, 286-87, 641-43, 645, 670, 717-18, 724, 728, 730, 754, 794-95

panzer production, 647-49, 798

propaganda, 52-53

railway system, 650-53, 655, 657, 722, 729, 734, 739, 746, 796 (see also Trans. campaign)

repair skill, 407, 459-60, 462, 646, 652, 657

strategy, 598

strength, 226, 246, 258, 272, 355, 394, 426-27, 437, 715

surrender (Germany) 785, (Italy) 482, 489, 784

Yugoslav offensive, 521-22. See also Chaps. 17, 19, 21

numbered units. Germersheim, 600, 768

Gernsheim, 780

Gerolstein, 676, 678, 690, 693, 700, 706

Gerow, Lt. Gen. Leonard, 196

Ghormley, Vice Adm. Robert, 790

Giessen, 675, 678, 682, 693, 732

Giles, Lt. Gen. Barney, 113-54, 174, 205, 726

Gironde R., 78,

Gjinokaster, 513

Gladbach, 673, 688, 760, 762, 770

Goch, 623, 757-58

Goebbels, Reichsminister Joseph, 178, 530

Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann:

Allied air war, 786, 793, goo

Berlin bomb., 12, 53

GAF (ftr. comdrs.) 664-65, (losses) 63, 178, (Poltava) 314

German counteroffensive, 673

Hitler, 226

OVERLORD, 162

scapegoat, 785

Albert Speer, 44, 288

V weapons. 87

GOLD, 143

Golzheim, 676, 763

GOODWOOD, 208-9

Gotha, 31, 36-40, 359, 624, 776

Gothic Line, 396, 401, 403, 406, 433, 439, 443, 445, 448

Grandcamp les Bains, 244, 549, 577

Grave, 600, 604

Graz, 41, 473, 649, 662, 731

Greece:

BAF, 399

Brit. occupation, 511

evac. (Allied crews) 523, (Ger.) 468, 472-75

GAF, 342, 351, 663

infiltration, 520

leaflet drops, 518

supply drops, 509, 511-12

GRENADE, 757-63

Grenoble, 155, 423, 427, 431, 496

Grevenbroich, 618, 635, 679, 760

Gros Rederching, 765

Grosseto, 339, 343, 399-400

Groups (numbered):

1st Ftr. Gp., 351

1st Intransit Depot Gp., 577

1st Transport Gp., 558, 560

2nd Bomb. Gp., 339, 380

2nd Gruppo (It.), 470

4th Ftr. Gp., 49

4th Ftr. Gp. (Fr.), 432, 443

VIII Air Force Intransit Depot Gp., 132, 548, 577

10th Air Depot Gp., 551

10th P/R Gp., 180-81, 264, 270, 550, 673, 675-76, 678, 693, 710

11 Gp., 113, 122, 125, 140

12th Bomb. Gp., 335n, 343

14th Ftr. Gp., 351, 432

15th Special Gp., 513

16th Air Depot Gp., 551

17th Bomb. Gp., 367, 423, 466

27th Air Transport Gp., 128, 557-60

27th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 354, 405, 432, 450, 481

31st Air Transport Gp., 127, 133, 551, 557-60

31st Ftr. Gp., 335n, 336, 345, 352, 392

33rd Ftr. Gp., 335n, 345, 352

36th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 265-66, 694,769

38 Gp, 562, 596, 609-10, 758, 774

42nd Air Depot Gp., 551

46 Gp, 562, 596, 609-11, 774

47th Bomb. Gp., 354, 378, 405, 418, 425, 443, 449, 451, 467, 471

48th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 256, 692, 694

50th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 256, 549

52nd Ftr. Gp., 335n, 336, 421

55th Ftr. Gp., 9, 123

57th Ftr. Gp., 335n, 374, 378, 423, 443, 449, 451, 461

60th TC Gp.,509-11, 518, 520-22

61st TC Gp., 114n

62nd TC Gp., 501, 516

64th TC Gp., 512, 516-17

67th T/R Gp., 119, 126, 270, 550, 673, 675, 678, 693, 709-10

68th Rcn. Gp., 506

79th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 335n, 344, 352, 402, 405, 450

81st Ftr. Gp., 335n

82d Ftr. Gp., 351, 425

83 Gp., 203, 254, 695

86th Air Depot Gp., 551

86th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 354, 405, 423, 432, 443, 449, 451n, 481

97th Bomb. Gp., 339, 351, 380

98th Bomb. Gp., 380, 390

99th Bomb. Gp., 339, 351, 380, 392

205 Gp., 177, 281, 316, 340-41, 380, 406, 425, 443, 486, 516, 518

242 Gp., 382, 391, 399

301st Bomb. Gp., 339, 351, 380

305th Bomb. Gp., 495

310th Air Serv. Gp., 466

310th Bomb. Gp., 335n, 377, 381, 388, 470

313th TC Gp., 114n

314th TC Gp., 114n

315th TC Gp., 114

316th TC Gp., 114n

319th Air Serv. Gp., 481

319th Bomb. Gp., 367, 423, 464-66

320th Bomb. Gp., 367, 423, 466

321st Bomb. Gp., 343, 388, 435

322nd Bomb. Gp., 112, 124

323rd Bomb. Gp., 112

324th Ftr. Gp., 352, 423, 450

325th Ftr. Gp., 351

328th Air Serv. Gp., 498

332nd Ftr. Gp., 335n, 336, 421

340th Bomb. Gp., 388, 392, 456, 469-70

350th Ftr. Gp., 335, 382, 418, 443-45, 449, 451

352nd Ftr. Gp., 574, 694, 698

354th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 11-12, 24, 123-24, 252, 266, 273, 275, 698

355th Ftr. Gp., 49

357th Ftr. Gp., 49

358th Ftr. Gp., 124n

361st Ftr. Gp., 574, 698

362nd Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 252-53, 272, 617, 698

363rd Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124-72, 252

363rd T/R Gp., 673, 693

365th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 104, 124n, 197, 273, 275, 686-87, 698

366th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 125, 197, 206, 256, 549

367th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 224n, 125, 205, 273, 686, 698

368th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 224n, 197, 201, 240, 245, 273, 275, 549, 686, 698

370th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 262, 273, 625

371st Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 253

373rd Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 224n, 252, 615, 692-94,762

376th Bomb. Gp., 355, 380, 390

386th Bomb. Gp., 112

387th Bomb. Gp., 112

391st Bomb. Gp., 217, 690

404th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124-72, 207, 256, 694

405th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 224n, 242, 252, 255, 265-66, 275, 617, 698, 762

406th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 124n, 238, 252-53, 274-75, 617, 698

410th Bomb. Gp., 201

434th TC Gp., 114

435th TC Gp., 114n

436th TC Gp., 114n

437th TC Gp., 114n

438th TC Gp., 114n

439th TC Gp., 114n

440th TC Gp., 114n

441st TC Gp., 114n

442nd TC Gp., 114n

449th Bomb. Gp., 343, 351, 380

450th Bomb. Gp., 351, 355, 380, 390

451st Bomb. Gp., 380, 390

454th Bomb. Gp., 355, 380

455th Bomb. Gp., 380

456th Bomb. Gp., 380, 393

459th Bomb. Gp., 54, 380, 393

460th Bomb. Gp., 54, 390

461st Bomb, Gp., 390

463rd Bomb. Gp., 54, 392

464th Bomb. Gp., 390

465th Bomb. Gp., 390

474th Ftr.-Bomber Gp., 205, 273, 275, 619, 693

478th Ftr. Gp., 615

479th Antisub. Gp., 498

482nd Bomb. Gp., 14, 498

483rd Bomb. Gp., 390

484th Bomb. Gp., 390

485th Bomb. Gp., 390

492nd Bomb. Gp., 497-98, 500, 519

801st Bomb. Gp., 498-99

2641st Special Gp., 513-14, 517-18

Guingand, Gen. Sir Francis de, 612

Gunn, Lt. Col. James III, 298

Gustav Line, 336-37, 342, 345-48, 354, 360-64, 368, 371, 377, 386-87, 396

Györ, 473, 662

–H–

Haguenau, 571, 624

Haine-St. Pierre, 152, 154

Halberstadt, 22-24, 31, 36-37

Hall, Brig. Gen. William, 299

Halle, 300, 738, 753, 776

Hamburg:

a/c plants, 662

Battle of Bulge, 677

oil campaign, 281, 284, 296, 642, 644-45, 670, 723, 737, 740

trans. campaign, 654

U-boats, 742, 744, 751-52

Hamm, 654, 676, 732

Hanau, 663, 677-78, 680, 682, 690

Handorf, 662-63, 773

Handy, Gen. Thomas, 412

Hannover, 664-65

AA, 176

a/c plants, 300-301

Battle of Bulge, 682

captured, 775

oil campaign, 178, 281, 296, 644, 737, 743, 751

ord. target, 647-48

Hansell, Brig. Gen. H. S., Jr., 107

Harburg, 284, 296, 644, 723

Harperscheid, 678, 682, 688

Harriman, Amb. Averill, 309-11, 314, 319

Harrington, 495n, 498-500

Harris, Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur:

Atlantic Wall, 168

Big Week, 35

comd. question, 140, 321-22

coop. with Eisenhower, 319, 321

CROSSBOW, 89, 529, 537

interdiction, 213

morale bomb., 639, 671

RAF (Bomber Comd.) 752, (combat losses) 303

strat. bomb., 174, 254, 279, 285, 785

trans. campaign, 74-75, 77-78, 161

USSBS, 791

HARRY, 456

Hasselt, 151-52, 154, 158

HASTY, 391

Hausser, Gen. Paul, 248-50

Haute-Savoie, 504-5

Hébécrévon, 235-36

Hébert, 563-65

Heflin, Lt. Col. Clifford, 498

Heide, 727, 744

Heidelberg, 768, 777, 780

Heilbronn, 777, 780

Heinsberg, 632, 635

Helgoland, 727

Hellenthal, 678, 682, 688

HELLHOUND, 638

Hemmingstedt, 301-2, 723, 744

Henry, Maj. Gen. Stephen. 96

Hergarten, 676-77

Hermeskeil, 618-19

Hewitt, Vice Adm. Henry, 414

Hildesheim, 743, 773

Hillbringen, 628

Hillesheim, 694, 700. 708

Hinman, Brig. Gen. Dale, 115

Hitler, Adolf:

AA, 56

a/c production, 60

Allied air offensive, 645, 793

on B-29, 719

“Baby Blitz,” 162

Battle of Bulge, 636-37, 669, 672-73

Battle of France, 248, 250, 258

diplomacy, 787

GAF (jets) 660, 728, (strategy) 668

gas warfare, 148

Ger. repair skill, 718

Hq., 638

It. campaign, 353

MARKET, 604

Normandy, 198, 209, 226

oil campaign, 174, 287

Albert Speer, 788

V weapons, 86- 88, 102-72

Hitler Line, 377, 386

Hoarding aircraft reporting stations, 171

Hobbs, Maj. Gen. Leland, 236

Hodges, Gen. Courtney:

CG 1st Army (Battle of Bulge) 673, 683, 685, 702-3, (Battle of France) 246, 268, (Rhine campaign) 597, 611, 623, (Rhine crossing) 776

Hodges, Maj. Gen. James, 16

Hohe Rhön R., 776-77

Holland. See Netherlands.

Hollerath, 678, 699

Homburg, 680, 686, 690, 692, 700, 706, 768

Hopkins, Harry, 319

Horrem, 679, 760

Houffalize, 694, 696-98, 702-3, 705, 707-8

Houlgate, 144, 168, 186

Hilzweiler, 628

Hürtgen, 633, 635, 678

Forest, 616, 633, 759

Hungary, 311

AAF air bases, 748

a/c plants, 297, 662

oil campaign, 172, 177, 281, 286, 739

Russ. (air bases) 668, 747, (offensive thru) 472, 702, 749

steel, 315

trans. campaign, 283, 312, 473, 654, 722, 730, 742

HURRICANE 1, 639-40, 733

–I–

Idice R., 485

Ijssel R., 600, 614, 623

Ile de Cézembre, 262

de Pomegues, 435-36

de Porquerolles, 414, 424, 435

de Ratonneau, 435-36

Il Giogo Pass, 445-46, 448

Imola, 403, 451, 468, 485

Indian troops, 387. See also units.

Inglis, AM Frank, 99, t01, 535

Initial Joint Plan (NEPTUNE), 71-72, 170, 186

Innsbruck, 462, 479, 777

Isarco R., 462, 486

Isigny, 194, 197, 577

Ismay, Sir Hastings, 102

Istres, 343, 351

Italian Air Force, 399

Italian Fascist Republic Air Force, 470

Italy:

Allied campaign, 28-29, 32, 55, 65, 290, 325-489

base for spec. opns., 494, 507

defeat, 325

labor in Ger. army, 407

leaflet drops, 517-18

min, of comm. on STRANGLE, 378-79

Partisans, 389n, 406, 472, 489, 494, 514, 516-17

railway system, 155, 339, 372-73, 376, 389, 652, 722, 730, 738, 796

sabotage, 178

shuttle bomb. inaug., 148

supply drops to, 509, 514, 784

troops with Allies, 401

units in MAAF, 330-32. See also units.

–J–

“Janes” and “Joes,” 494, 499, 501-2, 507, 518

Jena, 776, 779

Jet aircraft:

attacks on, 730

GAF potential, 659-60, 666, 715-16, 728, 739-40, 743, 793

manufacture, 717, 789

opns., 729, 744-46, 751-52, 783

priority target, 721, 736

JOCKEY, 753-54

Jodl, Col. Gen. Alfred, 786

Johnson, Col. B.F., 583

Joint Chiefs of Staff:

ability of MAAF, 412

ANVIL, 385, 410-11, 413

vs. Balkan offensive, 441

comd. question, 79

CROSSBOW, 96-97

direc. to coord. 8th and 15th AF’s, 327

mass air at Anzio, Cassino, 365

morale bomb. question, 639

USSBS, 790

Joint Intelligence Committee, 75, 173, 720, 735

Joint Planning Staff, 653

Jülich, 614-15, 617, 619, 631-32, 634, 675-76, 756, 759, 762

Junck, Lt. Gen. Werner, 58, 786

Junkerath, 692, 695

JUNO, 143

Jutland Peninsula, 50, 285, 293

–K–

Kaiserslautern, 6t8, 624, 680, 690, 692, 700, 705, 768

Kall, 677, 693, 695-96, 705, 761

Kane, Brig. Gen. C. P., 574

“Kangaroos,” 250

Karlsruhe, 155, 600, 652, 654, 680, 706, 777, 803

Kassel, 647-49, 654, 662, 682, 720, 724-25, 738, 741, 776

Keitel, FM Wilhelm, 56, 318, 786

Kempen, 758, 760

Kenny, Gen. George, 71

Kepner, Maj. Gen. William, 11, 32, 147

Kesselring, FM Albert:

Anzio, 346, 349, 353, 359-60, 369

final It. stand, 455-56, 459, 468, 478

Gustav Line, 337, 348, 372, 383, 515, (retreat) 386-87, 389, 394-95, 400-401, 433, 442-46, 448, 453

Hq. bombed, 387

on (interdiction) 397, 406, (STRANGLE) 382

Keuchingen, 694, 696

Kiel, 12, 123

jet factory, 296, 659

leaflet drops, 495

naval dockyard, 752

oil campaign, 293

ord. target, 648

U-boats, 19-21, 301, 741

Klagenfurt, 26, 352, 358, 522, 662, 731

Klein Machnow, 49-50

Kluge, FM Gunther von, 209, 248-50

Knerr, Maj. Gen. H. J.:

air bases, 570

air transport, 558, 561-62

CG ASC, USSTAF and D/A, CG USSTAF, 573

modification, 588

9th AF control, 109-10, 126-27, 586

shortages, 581

Koerner, Genmaj. Karl, 403n

Koller, Gen. Karl, 786

Konz-Karthaus, 154-55, 624, 693-94, 696, 704

Korneuberg, 644, 745

Krefeld, 758, 760

Kreising, 38-39

Krewinkel, 682

Kupresko Valley, 521

Kilter, Maj. Gen. Laurence, 639, 726, 789

–L–

La Futa Pass, 445-48, 451

Lahnstein, 680, 77’

Lake Bolsena, 357, 393

Lake Maggiore, 445, 451

Lamone R., 455-56, 477

Lampedusa, 408

Landau, 275, 618, 627, 677, 706, 768

Langerwehe, 631-32, 635

Langmead, Brig. Gen. E.C., 574

Laon, 151, 165, 273, 550

La Pernelle, 144, 168

La Roche, 696-97, 705, 708

La Spezia, 455n, 516-17

oil target, 390

ord. target, 468

port, 380, 387, 470

rail targets, 374, 388, 402-4

U-boats, 469

La Trésorerie, 420, 432

Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 597, 764-65

Laval, 217, 246, 255

Lavezzola, 485-86

Lavis, 463, 486

Leaflet propaganda, 494-98, 779

Leahy, Fleet Adm. William, 639

Le Bourget, 152

Lech R., 784

Leese, Gen. Sir Oliver, 354, 448

Leeuwarden, 124, 602

Leghorn, 340-41, 377, 380, 391, 396, 40[- 21 478

Le Havre, 69, 93, 168, 206, 258, 585

Leigh-Mallory, ACM Sir Trafford:

airfield attacks, 164, 166

Atlantic Wall, 168-71

COBRA, 228, 230

comd. AEAF, 5-7, 108-10, 122-23, 139-40, 155, 320, 620

CROSSBOW, 93, 100-101, 289

death, 622

Eisenhower, 189

Hq., 67-68

interdiction, 157-58, 213

MARKET, 607

oil campaign, 174

OVERLORD, 70, 72, 8082, 144-46, 149-50, 157

tac. bomb., 279

trans. campaign, 73-78, 152, 154, 156

Leipheim, 659, 744

Leipzig, 536, 659, 664

a/c campaign, 30, 33-34, 43, 285, 2.89

air base, 572

captured, 776

oil campaign, 744

trans. campaign, 654, 725, 738, 753

Le Manoir, 158, 215

Le Mans, 151, 154, 212, 219, 221, 246, 249, 252, 276, 553-54, 567

LeMay, Maj. Gen. Curtis, 16, 37

Le Muy, 414, 428, 430

Leopold Canal, 596, 613

Lessay, 204, 207, 241

Le Tubé, 343, 351

Leuna, 176-78, 28,, 294-95, 300-301, 642-46, 660-61, 723

Levant, 414, 428

Liblar, 679, 761

Liege, 154-55, 158, 267, 568

LIEGE (Ger. opn.), 248

LIFTON, 516

Ligurian Sea, 381, 391, 408, 417

Lille, 122, 164, 496, 803-11

Limburg, 275, 554, 676-78, 680, 771

Limoges, 221, 423, 503-4

Linnell, AM Sir John, 327

Linnich, 614-15, 631, 633, 757, 762

Linz, 473, 644, 646, 648-49, 705, 731, 738

Lippe, 760, 770

Canal, 775

Lippstadt, 618, 662, 775

Liri Valley, 337, 340, 342, 346-54, 366, 386, 388

Lisieux, 193, 238

Livenza R., 456, 464, 467, 478

Livron, 421, 431

Ljubljana Gap, 412-13, 474-75

Lloyd, AVM Sir Hugh, 326

Löbau, 283, 302, 644

Loire R., 145, 158, ,60, 210, 213-16, 221, 223, 246-47, 260-61, 265-66, 499

London:

attempted robot-bomber attacks, 728

“Baby Blitz,” 162

Montgomery’s Hq., 68

Special Force Hq., 501

USSBS Hq., 790

V-weapon attacks, 84, 90-93, 288, 526, 530, 532, 542n, 544

Lovett, AS/W (Air) Robert, 715-16, 733

Lucca, 339-40, 516

Ludendorff Bridge, 769

Ludwigshafen, 12, 296

area bomb., 58

Battle of Bulge, 680

I.G. Farbenindustrie, 20-22

oil campaign, 296, 300-302, 642, 644

trans. campaign, 155, 600, 654, 729

Lüttwitz, Gen. Freiherr Heinrich von, 227, 249, 257

Lützkendorf, 176, 178, 289, 294, 301-2, 642, 644, 729, 753

Luftwaffe. See German Air Force.

Lugo, 403, 485

Lunebach, 690, 700

Lure, 597

Luxembourg:

air bases, 562-63, 568, 570, 572

battle area, 596, 686, 708-9

liberated, 267, 595

radar installations, 661

rail targets, 154

Lwow, 220, 311

Lyon, 503

airfields, 432, (Allied) 437, 519, 554, (bombed) 164

ANVIL, 414

Ger. (defense) 427, (retreat) 434, 436

rail target, 155. 390-91, 420, 423

–M–

Maas R., 604, 607, 624, 703, 757

Maastricht, 267, 585, 595

Maas–Waal Canal, 604

MacCloskey, Col. Monro, 506

McDonald, Brig. Gen. George, 535

MacGregor, AC H. D., 329

Maclean, Brig. F. H., 519-20

McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley, 234

McNarney, Gen. J. T., 735

Macon, Maj. Gen. Robert, 266

MADISON, 624-29

Magdeburg:

a/c factory, 300, 662

captured, 775

panzer factory, 647, 720

petroleum plants, 178, 281, 284, 296, 301, 642, 723, 725, 732, 740

trans. campaign, 654, 727, 729, 731

Maginot Line, 619

Main R., 776-77

Maintenon, 217, 253, 260

Mainz, 301, 600, 624, 652, 676, 682, 688

Maisons-Lafitte, 158, 214

Maisy, 141, 168, 192, 194, 198

Malignano, 516

MALLORY, 403-4, (MAJOR) 404, 406, 442, 445

Malmédy, 670, 693, 697

Malta conference, 481, 724-25, 728, 732-33

MANHOLE, 519

MANNA, 475, 511-12

Mannheim, 155, 300, 647-48, 654, 700, 706, 729, 768, 771, 775, 780

Mantes, 152-54, 158, 210, 224, 260, 267

Mantova, 404, 4.06, 452, 489

Maquis, 221, 413, 415, 421-23, 493-94, 500, 502-6

Marche, 692, 697, 702

Marecchio R., 448

Maribor, 26, 358, 474, 749

Marienburg, 9, 22

Marigny, 231, 238, 241

Marina di Pisa, 516

MARKET, 600-611, 637, 640

Marne R., 267

Marseille, 377, 391

air assault, 42.1-25, 433

airlift, 562

capture, 435-36

plan to capture, 412, 414-15

rail target, 155

Marshall, Gen. 0f the Army George:

Allied airborne force, 244

ANVIL, 411-13

Berlin bomb., 725 CBO, 27

CLARION, 732

contd. question, 4, 80, 320-21

CROSSBOW, 96, 98

C/S USA, 78, 305

OVERLORD, 71

strat. bomb., 649

Swiss bomb., 735-36

12th AF move to France, 440

Martinvast, 90-91

Martinville Ridge, 206

Massa, 516

Mayen, 617-18, 676, 690, 692-93, 696, 698-99, 705

Mayenne, 246, 252

Medeno Polje, 519-20

Mediterranean Air Transport Service, 331, 333

Mediterranean Allied Air Forces:

aid (to Balkans) 510, (to Maquis) 421

air evac. Balkans, 520-22

antisub., 391, 469

ANVIL, 413-34, (eval.) 434n, 436n

CBO, z8

control of foreign air units, 330, 332, 399

infiltration opns., 519

Italy, 150, 174, 337-407, 442-89

liaison problem with USSR, 476, 748-49

orgn., 326-29, 335-36, 449

OVERLORD, 148

sortie rate, 355, 357, 360, 384n, 388, (effect on morale) 356-57

strength, 346, 365, 372, 387,392,413,418,478

Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force:

antisub., 381-82

ANVIL, 415, 418, 427, 431

BRASSARD, 400

Italy (DIADEM) 386, 391, 406, 417, (invasion) 340, 346, 356-57, (relieved from opns.) 463, 468-69, (STRANGLE) 374, 381-84

orgn., 326, 329, 331, 335, 449

strength. 469

support Tito, 399

units to DAF, 419

Mediterranean Allied Photographic Reconnaissance Wing, 329n, 333, 346, 390

Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force:

ANVIL (losses) 436n, (opns.) 420-25, 428-31, (plans) 415, 418

Balkan opns., 472-76

CBO, 357-58, 379-80, 390, 397, 403, 433

Italy (Cassino) 362-63, 366-67, 370, (DIADEM) 386-93, 405-6, (invasion) 339-41, 343, 350-51, 353-56, 360, (northern) 443, 453, 456, 458-62, 469, 471, 479, 481, 483-84, 486-88, (relieved) 463, (STRANGLE) 374, 380-81, 384

leaflet drop, 518

orgn., 326-27, 329, 513

strength, 397

Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force:

aid to (It. Partisans) 472, (Tito) 399

ANVIL (losses) 436, (opns.) 423-25, 428-37, 443, (plans) 413, 415-19

vs. Balkans, 475

Elba, 400

15th AF aid to, 340-41, 358

5th and 8th Army joint control, 396, 401

Italy (Cassino) 362-63, 366-67, 369-70, (DIADEM) 386-93, 395, 397, (invasion) 337, 339, 342-45, 349-56, 360, (northern) 442, 445-49, 452-56, 458-62, 470-71,479-81,483-84,488-89, (STRANGLE) 373-84

mission, 463, 467-69, 478

orgn., 326-27, 329, 335, 482, 513, 517

strat. opns., 403-4, 406

strength, 466

Melun, 267, 568

Memmingen, 292, 753

Merderet R., 188-89

Merseburg:

oil targets, 176-78, 281, 289, 294-95, 300-302, 642, 644-46, 660-61

Merville, 574

Merzig, 628, 676, 678, 680, 698

Messerschmitt, Willy, 88

Mestre, 380, 406, 467-68

Metz:

airfield campaign, 164

Allied air base, 7,0

Ger. (counteroffensive) 672, (defense) 220, z67, 274

MADISON, 624, 626-28

Rhine campaign, 599, 611, 616

trans. campaign, 154-55

Metz, Maj. Gen. Richard, 695

Meurthe R., 629

Meuse–Escaut Canal, 600, 607

Meuse R., 158, 267, 596, 623, 6 72, 685, 689, 694, 696, 701

Middle Wallop, 112, 202, 549

Mielec, 311-13, 315

Mikolajczyk, Premier Stanislaus, 317

Milan, 380-81, 404-6, 445, 452, 649

Milch, Generalfeldmarschall Erhard, 786

Miller, Maj. Gen. H. J. F., 109, 115-16

MIMOSA (Ger. opn.), 221

Mimoyecques, 90-91, 531n

Minden, 654, 737

Miramas, 420-21

Mirgorod, 310, 312, 314

Misburg, 284, 300-307, 644, 670, 740

Mitrovica, 474-75

Model, FM Walter, 595, 767, 805

Modena, 397, 516

Moder R., 767

Modrath, 616, 618

Mockau, 30, 35

Moerdijk bridge, 602

Molotov, Foreign Minister V. M., 309, 337

Monastery Hill, 362, 364, 366, 368

Monroe, Capt. James, 496

Mons, 154, 273

Monschau, 672, 679, 682, 694, 703

Forest, 759

Montalto di Castro, 341-42, 374

Montbéliard, 436, 597

Monte Cassino Abbey, 355, 362-64, 366, 368, 386

Montelimar, 425, 434, 436

Montenegro, 517, 522

Montgomery, FM Sir Bernard:

Arnhem, 61t, 672

Atlantic Wall, 167

Battle of Bulge, 686, 703

Battle of France, 250

bridge destr., 157

CG 21 Army Gp., 597, 620-21, 760

Ger. reinforcements, 258

MARKET-GARDEN, 599-601, 607-8

IX BC, 197

Normandy, 208

OVERLORD, 68, 140, 143, 147

plans, 612, 623, 756, 771

RAF BC, 747

Rhine campaign, 614, 624, 764, 766

Rhine crossing, 773

Rommel, 225

tac. bomb., 279, (in Africa) 806-7

UTAH, 71

Montignies-sur-Sambre, 152, 154

Montpellier, 351, 392, 420

Moore, Lt. H.H., 548

Moore, Capt. Homer, 521

Moosbierbaum, 283, 302, 644, 646, 724, 730, 745

Morgan, Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick, 3, 67, 71, 83, 97, 226, 545

Morscheid, 624, 696, 705

Mortain, 247-50, 252, 254, 256, 258

Moscow, 309, 311, 476, 748-49, 806

Moselle R.:

Battle of Bulge, 672-73, 675-76, 680, 700, 704, 709

battle line, 277, 439, 619, 623-24

bridgehead, 616, 627

crossed, 274, 766-67, 771

Rhine campaign, 596-97, 599-600, 611

Mostar, 399, 474

Mount (Beni) 446, (Oggiolo) 446, (Trocalio), 388

München-Gladbach, 673, 688, 760, 762

Münster, 751, 771

Battle of Bulge, 676, 678, 682

radar bomb., 17, 21, 54

Rhine crossing, 773

trans. campaign, 652, 654, 732

Münstereifel, 677, 679, 682, 692, 694, 699, 708

Mulde R., 776

Mulhouse, 154-55, 613, 629, 764, 776

Munich, 296, 659

a/c industry, 290, 292-93, 662

Allied air base, 572

captured, 777

Ger. retreat, 781

ord. target, 647

trans. campaign, 652, 654, 737, 753

–N–

Namur, 151-53, 667

Nancy, 152, 164-65, 267, 274, 554, 568, 570, 616

Nantes, 210, 215-16, 246, 260, 435

Naples, 371-72, 414n

airfields, 345, 352-53, 356, 366, 374

Allied port, 346-48, 427

GAF attacks, 350, 392

seized, 325

Naval Forces, Allied, 8,, 167, 270, 430-31, 434, 442n

ANVIL (bomb.) 416, 429, 435-36, (diversion) 426, (task force) 414-15, 427

bomb. of land targets (Anzio) 348, (Brittany) 262, (Normandy) 208, 226

losses at Anzio, 352

Navy, U.S., 130, 430, 557, 572, 720-21, 790

Neckar R., 777, 780

Neder Rijn R., 604, 607

Henning, 628

NEPTUNE. See Initial Joint Plan. Nervesa, 464, 467, 480

Netherlands:

Allied bases, 554, 562, 570, 572, 585, 665

CARPETBAGGER, 500

CROSSBOW, 539, 542n, 543

food drops, 784

GAF bases, 52, 164-66, 213

leaflet drops, 495-98

liberation, 595

OVERLORD, 68

resistance movement, 493

Rhine campaign, 612, 619, 702-3

tac. rcn., 179

Nettuno, 352-53, 356

Neuburg, 730, 737, 744-46, 753

Neuerburg, 690, 694

Neunkirchen, 155, 654, 680, 700, 706

Neuss, 677, 758, 760, 762

Neustadt, 618, 677, 770

Neuwied, 700, 705-7, 770, 772

Newman, Brig. Gen. J.B., 118, 570

New Zealand troops, 363, 366, 370, 387, 485

Nice, 155, 339, 391, 421, 426, 429

“Nickels,” 494. See also Leaflet propaganda.

Nideggen, 678-79, 682, 693

Nijmegen, 598, 600-601, 604, 607, 612, 756-57

Nimes, 155, 420

Nis, 474-76

NOBALL, 123-24. See also V weapons.

Norvenich, 616-18

Nohfelden, 680, 693

Nonnweiler, 618, 694, 705, 766

Normandy:

airfield campaign, 163-64

Allied bases, 240, 269, 547-69

Atlantic Wall, 168, 170

CADILLAC, 504

OVERLORD, 150

trans. campaign, 154, 156-62

Normandy invasion:

air (doctrine) 185-86, 189, (superiority) 227, 793, 806

airfield constr., 203-4

air opns. (close support) 194-99, (eval.) 192-93, 219-27, 278, (interdiction) 209-19, 262, (preinvasion) 190-92, 210,214

eval. (of bridgehead) 637, (of landings) 228, 411, 413

Ger. (build-up) 195, 226, 427, (retreat) 248, 267

Norstad, Maj. Gen. Lauris, 329

North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, 327

North Sea, 15, 33, 50, 285, 734, 756, 797

Northwest African Air Forces, 329n, 333, 807

Norway, 17, 57, 170, 494, 496, 500, 720

Novi Sad, 474-75

Nürnberg, 301, 554, 572, 648, 720, 732, 753, 777, 781

Nugent, Brig. Gen. Richard, 200, 597, 699, 707,760

NUTMEG, 416, 424-26. See also DRAGOON.

–O–

Oberlahnstein, 654, 68z

Ober Raderach, 533, 540

Obertraubling, 31, 37, 42

Oberwürzbach, 768

Oberzier, 678, 682, 763

OCTAGON conference, 441, 464

Odertal, 281, 291, 299, 642-43, 646, 670

Offenburg, 654, 664

Office of Strategic Services, 372, 493-94, 500-501, 505, 509, 514

sp. opns., 502

Oil campaign:

bomb-type question, 643

delay, 172-73

direcs., 280-81, 640, 718

eval., 177-79, 285-87, 746, 794-96

Joint Oil Targets Com., 286

opns., 176-78, 281-85, 292, 299, 302, 641-45, 670, 723-24, 728, 731-32, 739-45, 751

Oise R., 260-61

Oissel, 158, 213, 215, 273

Oldenburg, 727

Olzheim, 679, 683

OMAHA beach:

air assault, 190-92, 194

air-ground coop., 196-97, 202

assault plans, 143, 186

landings, 548-49

landing strips, 131, 204, 563-65

supply, 577

Operational Research Section, 233, 237, 389-12, 790

Oppenheim, 771

Ora, 406, 459, 461-63

Oranienburg, 53, 743

ORATION, 519

Orbetello, 381, 393

Orcia R., 400

Ordnance campaign, 647-49, 721, 798-99

Orléans, 145, 165, 210, 214-16, 261, 266, 276, 496, 550, 555, 568

Ome R., 71, 138, 193

ORPHAN, 531

One, 341, 353, 356, 374, 377, 388, 397

Orvieto, 339, 341, 355-56, 374, 379, 389

Oscherslehen, 22-24, 31, 36-37

Osnabrück, 654, 732, 737, 751

Ossenigo, 459, 461

Ossola Valley, 515

Ostend, 93, 170-71, 585

Ostiglia, 404-5, 449, 488

Oswiecim, 281, 642, 670

Ott, Brig. Gen. Isaac, 575

Ouistreham, 70, 141, 168

Our R., 702, 705, 709

Ourthe R., 596, 702

OVERLORD:

airfield campaign, 162-66

air rcn., 179-81

ANVIL, 385, 409-12

Anzio, 337, 364-65

CBO, 8, r, 26-28, 65

comd. structure, 79-81

comm. system, 140

vs. CROSSBOW, 92-93, 9697, 103

D-day, 77, 79, 83, 146, 158-61, 165-71, 178-79, 181

GAF weakness, 195-96, 287

lessons, 424

LST shortage, 71

Oil campaign, 173, 176, 178-79, 284

plans, 3-7, 67-71, 138-39, 141-43, 162-63, 167, 170, 391-92

shuttle bomb., 309

trans. campaign, 72-79, 157, 161

USSTAF in, 68

–P–

Paderborn, 662, 751, 771, 775

Padua, 380, 448, 453, 464, 467, 480

Palatinate, 767-68, 771

Palestrina, 345, 350

PANCAKE, 453-54

Pantelleria, 170, 325, 408, 437

Panzer Lehr Division, 197, 206-7, 235-36, 257

Paris, 12, 210, 214, 216, 260-61, 273, 504

Allied bases, 269, 550-55, 557, 567-69, 573, 584-85

GAF airfields, 164-65, 252-54

Ger. in, 220-22, 224

leaflet drops, 496

liberated, 267

OVERLORD, 68, 71, 145

rail center, 152, 155, 212

3rd Army drive to, 158-59, 426

V-weapon attacks, 84, 542

Parma, 388, 397, 402-3, 452

Parndon Wood, 542

Pas-de-Calais:

CROSSBOW, 21, 527, 531, 533, 539

German defense, 226, 258

OVERLORD, 69, 143, 158, 180-81

V-weapon launching, 84, 90-91, 93, 100, 525-26, 598

Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander:

ANVIL (CG ground forces) 414, 434, 437, (naval bomb.) 416

Battle of Bulge, 685

CG 7th Army, 267, 597, 765

DRAGOON, 429

UNDERTONE, 767

Pathfinder operations. See Radar and radio.

Patton, Gen. George:

air support, 272, 628-29, 805, 807

CG 3rd Army (Battle of Bulge) 685, 689, 692, 699, 701-3, 709, (Battle of France) 243-44, 246-47, 250, 255, 257, 260, 265-70, 278, 408, 426, 637, (Rhine campaign) 597, 599-600, 609, 611, 616, 623, 669, (Rhine crossing) 770-71, 776, 778

MADISON, 624, 626

Peenemünde, 84, 86-87, 89-90, 92, 293-94, 296, 300, 537-38, 540

Peitz, Genmaj. Dietrich, 719

Périers, 204-5, 207, 221, 231, 236, 241

Péronne, 154, 260, 269

Persian Gulf Command, 310

Perugia, 341, 343, 346, 374, 377, 388, 393, 396,400-401,408

Pesaro, 443, 447

Pfalzel, 693, 696

Pforzheim, 618, 706

Piacenza, 390, 392, 403-6, 445, 451, 453, 467, 516-17

Piave R., 456, 458, 460, 463-64, 467, 478, 517

Piedicolle, 456, 478-80

Pilsen, 648, 783

Piombino, 341, 377, 380-81, 387, 390, 401• 406

Pirmasens, 618, 675

Piryatin, 310, 312, 314

Pisa:

battle line, 411, 426, 468

capture, 400-403, 408-9

rail lines, 337, 339-41, 365, 371, 374, 377, 380, 383, 388, 394, 396

supply drops to Partisans, 516

Pistoia, 339, 341, 393, 397, 401, 403, 405, 516

Piteccio, 403,405

Ploesti:

a/c campaign, 315

bomb line, 748

oval., 298, 643

German defense, 287

occupation, 641

oil campaign, 66, 173-74, 177-78, 280-81, 291-92, 296-97, 399

PLUNDER, 746, 751

Podgorica, 513

Pölitz, 178, 281, 284, 287, 300, 642, 645, 670, 723

Poggibonsi, 341, 350

POINTBLANK:

CROSSBOW, 92, 99, 102

diversion (to SHINGLE) 361, (to STRANGLE) 380

eval., 288

15th AF in, 327, 336, 339, 358, 374, 380, 390

relation (to oil campaign) 173, 175, (to OVERLORD) 69, 75,162. See also CBO.

Pointe du Hoc, 141, 168, 192

POL (petrol-oil-lubricants). See Oil campaign.

Pola, 41, 468-69, 731

Poland:

a/c factories, 33, 38, 311, 315

armored force, 267, 613

FRANTIC, 316-18

Ger. defense, 660, 665

oil campaign, 281, 286, 297, 299, 314

Partisans, 749

Russ. offensive, 702

spec. opns., 505-6, 520

trans. campaign, 156

troops in It. campaign, 386, 401, 484-85

units in (BAF) 399, (MAAF) 33°. See also units. Poltava, 310, 312-13

Pont-à-Mousson, 267, 274, 624

Pontassieve, 341, 374, 388

Pontaubault, 217, 241, 247

Pontecorvo, 342, 345, 350

Pontedera, 339, 341, 350, 377, 401

Pontorson, 217, 247

Ponziane I., 346

Popoli, 344, 352

Po R. and Valley:

bridges bombed, 403-7, 445, 449, 468

German (air bases) 55, (defense) 446, 460, 487, (retreat) 488

ground offensive, 412, 420, 448, 489

interdiction campaign, 402, 416, 421-23, 443, 451-53, 456-59, 467, (eval.) 480, 483

supply drops to Partisans, 514-15, 517

Portal, C/AS Sir Charles:

ARGUMENT, 32

CBO, 28

CCS, 6

CLARION, 735

comd. question, 56, 80, 320-21

CROSSBOW, 530, 542

8th AF losses, 645

end strat. bomb. offensive, 753

long-range escort, 11

oil campaign, 670, 722, 733

robot B-17, 728

trans. campaign, 75, 7778

USSR liaison problem, 477

Port Cros, 414, 428

Port-en-Bessin, 197, 583-84

Porto Civitanova, 341, 350

Porto Ferraio, 390, 400

Posen, 33, 38-39

Postumia, 456, 478-79

Prague, 746

Prato, 340-41, 377, 397, 401, 403, 405, 443

Prekaja Mountains, 521

Pronsfeld, 690, 694, 696

Provisional Troop Carrier Air Division, 427-28,431

Prüfening, 31, 41

Prüm, 614, 679, 686, 690, 694-95, 698, 706, 708

Psychological Warfare Division, SHAFT, 495, 501, 518, 639

–Q–

QUADRANT conference, 409

Quebec conference (I) 3, (II) 320, 640

QUEEN, 631-33

Quesada, Maj. Gem Elwood, 716, 807

air-tank coop., 239

comd. question, 621

CG IX FC, 112-13, 140, 190, 196, 199

CG IX TAC, 134, 203, 205, 272, 550, 699

–R–

Radar and radio, 85, 104, 124, 135-36, 530

AA, 529

ANVIL, 420, 427n, 428

Atlantic Wall, 169

“Big Week,” 36

CBO, 10, 12, 14-17, 21, 25, 48

enemy installations, 529

eval., 18-22, 286, 306, 671

15th AF, 26, 406

Gee-H, 286, 539, 627, 667

H2S, 14

H2X, 14-18, 32, 190, 285, 290-91, 293, 627, 666-67, 736, 741, 744

Micro-H, 667, 750

need for, 18, 54, 666

Normandy, 188, 190

Oboe type, 17-18, 147

oil campaign, 284, 296, 642, 667

OVERLORD, 147

radio countermeasure a/c, 602

in supply drops, 499, 502, 506

target priorities, 13-14

WEARY-WILLIE, 531

Ramsay, Adm. Sir Bertram, 168

Rangers, 197, 264-65

Rapido R., 346, 349, 362, 364, 366, 386

Ravenna, 443, 452-53, 455n

Recco, 391, 403-4

Reconnaissance:

armed (France) 205, 212, 218, 238-39, 242, 255, 265, 271, (Italy) 389, 402, (S. France invasion) 429, 432

photo (France) 211-12, 240, 265, (Italy) 360, 389n, 390, (Rhine campaign) 270-71, 619-20, 722, 779

tactical (Battle of Bulge) 673-82, 699-700, (eval.) 805, (France) 240, 253, 265, 430, (Italy) 388, (jet interference) 643, 659

Red Ball express highways, 275

“Red Stocking,” 519

Rees, 758-59, 770

Regensburg:

a/c factories, 9, 31, 41-42, 55

ball-bearing factories, 294, 308, 358-59

captured, 776

German defense, 23

oil campaign, 724, 730

trans. campaign, 743

Reggio Emilia, 340, 358, 392, 451

Regiments (numbered):

1st Airfield Maint. Regt., 566, 570//

2nd Airfield Maint. Regt., 570

38th Inf. Regt., 265

923rd Engr. Avn. Regt., 570

Reichswald, 604, 757, 759

Reims:

Allied base, 269, 276, 550, 554, 562, 568

GAF base, 273

German surrender, 785

leaflet drops, 496

Spaatz’s Hq., 754

trans. campaign, 154-55

Remagen, 600, 616, 618, 706, 708, 769-71

Rennes, 220, 223, 246, 496

Rescue of AAF P/W’s:

FREEDOM (Bulgaria), 298-99

REUNION (Rumania), 298, 523

Rheinbach, 676-78, 682, 687, 700, 761

Rheinberg, 757, 762

Rheine, 654, 732, 771

Rheydt, 675, 677, 758, 760

Rhine R.:

Battle of Bulge, 673, 675-80, 685, 688, 701, 704-9, 711

CHEERFUL, 764-65

crossing, 612, 652, 769-75, 780-81

German (retreat) 708, (supply) 797

GRENADE, 760-63

interdiction line, 72, 616-19

offensive (Allied) 599-600, 608, 623, 629, 636-37, 656, 666, 669, 724, 732, 736, 746-47, 756-57, 765-68, 796

photo rm., 270

Rhone R.:

Allied offensive, 267, 408, 439, 570

bridges (bombed) 423, 431, (spared) 434, 443

GAF (bases in delta) 425, (withdrawal) 432

Maquis activity, 5034, 506

Richardson, Brig. Gen. W. L., qzqz

Rieti, 343, 351, 397

Riga, 311-12

Rimini:

battle line, 403, 409, 411, 426, 443, 446-47

capture, 448, 452

harbor, 401

rail lines, 337, 340-41, 350, 365, 371, 380, 383, 388-89, 394, 396-72, 397, 402, 445

Risle R., 261

Robb, AM James, 622

Roccasecca, 342, 345

Rochefort, 693, 697

Rodenkirchen bridge, 706

Roermond, 756, 762

Roer R., 596, 633, 703, 707, 732, 756-63

Rötgen Forest, 616

Rome, 337-69 Passim, 397, 400, 408, 413

Allied base, 419

bombed, 348, 352, 358

campaign, 371-84

capture, 384-96, 411

GAF weakness, 342-43

Hq. XII TAC, 393

leaflet drop, 518

occupation, 326

Rommel, FM Erwin, 166-67, 219-20, 222- 23, 225-26

Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Elli0tt, 309, 311

Roosevelt, President F. D.:

ANVIL, 385, 409-10, 413

OVERLORD, 3-4

supplies to Warsaw, 316-17

trans. plan, 79

U-boat campaign, 721

USSBS, 790

Yalta, 724, 748, 750

Rosignano, 516-17

Rostock, 39, 296, 300

Rotterdam, 599, 784

Rouen, 158, 210, 214-15, 258, 260, 271, 496, 587

Rouffach, 764

Roulement system, 132, 270, 549

Rovereto, 463, 470, 486

Royal Air Force, 163, 285, 305

aid to (9th AF) 127, 134-36, 584, (Pol. Partisans) 749

air base constr., 569

aircraft types

(Baltimore) 378

(Beaufighter ) 381

(Boston) 378

(Halifax) 406, 420

(Mosquito) 104

(Spitfire) 336, 348, 402

(Stirling) z88

(Typhoon) 200, 249

(Wellington) 355, 421, 426, 539

ARGUMENT, 30, 33, 35, 43

in BAF, 399

Battle of Bulge, 688

bridge destruction, 157, 159

C/AS (see Portal)

CROSSBOW, 89, 546

FRANTIC, 309

GAF defeat, 59

leaflet drops, 495, 497, 518

Maclean mission, 519

Normandy, 190, 193-94, 208

orgn., 139, 806

OVERLORD, 143

radar, 14

RAF-AAF comd., 81, 203, 207, 326-29, 385, 388, 430, 453, 592, 621, 807

special opns., 493, 505, 507, 518-22

strength, 139

supply, 417n, 418, (missions) 5 1 1

units under AAF, 391, 402, 415, 450-72. See also units.

Royal Air Force Bomber Comd., 19

airfield campaign, 164-65, 793

Atlantic Wall, 169-71

Battle of Bulge, 693, 717

Battle of France, 250, 263

bomb. doctrine, 7, 284, 639

CBO, 7, 28, 196

comd. question, 6, 79-82, 319, 321, 529

CROSSBOW, 89, 103-22, 105-72, 289, 292, 527-30, 533-34, 537-39, 543

daylight bombing, 208, 639, 645, 729, 742, 747

eval., 155, 166, 302-4, 790-91, 795, 797

interdiction, 700, 773

MARKET, 601-2, 610

mission, 640, 721-22, 787, 802

Normandy, 186, 211-14

oil campaign, 173, 176, 281, 286, 296, 642, 645, 670, 718, 723-24, 728, 742, 753, 794

ord. and vehicle campaign, 648, 799

OVERLORD, 72, 142, 145-46, 148, 167, 278

QUEEN, 631-32

Rhine campaign, 613

strat. bomber offensive, 279, (end) 754, (rate of opns.) 293, 751-52

strength, 26, 596

Tallboy use, 216, 263-64, 531, 538-39, 742

trans. campaign, 74, 77-78, 149, 151-52, 154, 175, 292, 652, 654, 656, 726-27, 731-34, 737, 742, 747, 772

U-boats, 720

VERITABLE, 758

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 538, 60

Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 77;74

Royal Air Force Middle East, 326

Royal Australian Air Force, 391

ROYAL FLUSH, 145, 194

Royal Navy, 400, 430n

Royce, Maj. Gen. Ralph, 245, 597, 765/1

Rüsselsheim, 294, 537-38

Ruhland, 178, 281, 285, 300-301, 313, 642, 723, 740, 743, 745, 749

Ruhr:

encircled, 751, 775-76, 797

leaflet drops, 779

MARKET-GARDEN, 607

mass bomb. proposed, 636, 638-40

offensive, 635, 650

oil targets, 173, 175-76, 281, 642, 645, 718, 723-24, 728, 732-34, 742

power station, 801

trans. campaign, 653-54, 656, 719, 721, 725, 733, 736, 738, 740-41, 743, 746-47, 770-73

Rumania:

a/c factories, 297

airfields, 313, 315

change to Allied side, 298, 511

leaflet drops, 292

oil campaign, 76, 172, 174, 281, 283, 286, 291

REUNION, 298, 523

Russ. (base) 318, (offensive) 472

Rundstedt, FM General Gerd von:

Allied (air power) 784, (interdiction campaign) 218, 222, 224, 227, 705

Atlantic Wall, 166

C-in-C West, 595-96

CG (Ger. 15th Army) 159-60, (Ger. 7th Army) 219, 226

Ger. counteroffensive, 656, 670-73, 732

OVERLORD, 162

replaced, 209

St.-Lô bomb., 236-37

trans. campaign, 160

–S–

Saar:

Basin, 599, 765, 767-68, 771

River, 619, 624, 628, 701, 709, 765

Saarbrücken:

Battle of Bulge, 676, 698-700

trans. campaign, 154-55, 219, 290, 293, 618, 627, 652, 654, 657

UNDERTONE, 768

Saarburg, 680, 690, 696

Saarlautern, 626, 628, 677, 680

Sachsenheim, 624, 626

St.-Dizier, 165, 554, 568

Ste.-Mère-Eglise, 146, 189

St.-Germain, 573

St. Ghislain, 152, 154

St.-Gilles, 238-39, 241

St.-Laurent-sur-Mer, 548, 563

St.-Lô, 227-28, 426, 653, 669

Allied (air base) 584, (drive toward) 193, 204, 206, 502, 504

captured, 207, 220

carpet bomb., 231-37, 243, 278, 294-95

St.-Malo, 246, 262

St.-Mandrier peninsula, 435

St. Oedenrode, 601, 604

St. Paul’s School, London, 68

St.-Pierre du Mont, 565

St.-Quentin, 273, 597

St.-Sauveur-Lendelin, 243-44

St. Valentin, 647-48, 745

St.-Valéry, 125, 169

St.-Vith:

Allied counterattack, 702, 705-6, 708

American retreat, 683, 685, 687

Battle of, 692-94, 697-99, 711

St. Wendel, 627, 676-77, 680

Salerno, 342, 356, 414-15, 430, 438, 514, 517-18

Salon, 343, 351, 392

Salonika, 474, 475n

Salzbergen, 602, 732

Sandys, Duncan, 89, 542

Sangro R., 326

San Michele, 463, 466, 486

San Stefano, 377, 380-81, 387, 390

Sant’Ambrogio, 362, 461, 466

Santerno R. and Valley, 448, 477, 482, 484-86

Saone-et-Loire, 505

Saône Valley, 504

Sarajevo, 399, 474-75, 477, 513

Sardinia, 325, 366, 387n, 408, 418, 435

Sarreguemines, 154-55, 624

Sarthe R., 246

Saumur, 215, 221

Sava R., 475

Saverne Gap, 629

Saville, Brig. Gen. Gordon, 366, 414, 432, 434-35, 453, 597, 765

Savio R., 452-53

Savoie, 505

Savona, 424, 468

Saxony, 294

SCAEF. See Eisenhower (Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces).

Schacht, Dr. Hjalmar, 785

Schaffhausen, 735

Schelde:

Estuary, 599, 612-13, 623-24

River, 271

Schilling, Col. Karl, 118, 567

Schlatter, Maj. Gen. David, 200, 622

Schleiden, 677-78, 682, 687-88, 693, 697, 705-6, 708

Schmidt, 635, 679, 759

Schnee Eifel, 628, 672

Scholven, 642, 645, 670

Schouwen I., 602

Schramm, Brig. Gen. N. L., 135-36

Schwabisch Hall, 624

Schwalbe, Gen. Eugen-Felix, 258

Schweinfurt:

a/c factories, 37

ball-bearing campaign, 8, 38-40, 45, 294, 359, 648, 800

captured, 777

German defense, 23, 34, 781

Seine R.:

bridges bombed, 157-59, 210, 213, 261

crossings, 258, 267

interdiction line, 214-15

OVERLORD, 68

trans. campaign, ,60, 222-23, 260

Senio R., 477, 482, 484-85, 784

Serbia, 511

Serchio Valley, 468

Services of Supply, ETO, 118, 127, 133n, 137

SESAME, 446

Sesto Imolese, 485

Sète, 416, 424

SEXTANT conference, 409

SHINGLE, 336

Allied strength, 355, 364

vs. ARGUMENT, 358-59

failure, 360-61, 371, (dangers) 346, 364-65, 384-85, 409

German (build-up) 350-51, 353, (counterattack) 355, 359

interdiction, 349-50, 355

invasion, 346-48

Navy losses, 352

plans for, 336-39, 361

prelim. air opns., 339-45, 371. See also Anzio.

Shuttle bombing, 148, 397. See also FRANTIC.

Siberia, 309-10, 318

Sicily:

Allied base, 325-26

campaign eval., 333, 342, 351, 415, 431, 437-38, 807

Siegburg, 676, 678, 770

Siegen, 678, 770

Siegfried Line, 166, 596, 646

Battle of France, 239, 266, 277

bombed, 271, 611, 628

breached, 267, 595, 766-68

photo rcn., 270, 619

Rhine campaign, 599-600, 623, 635

UNDERTONE, 767-68

Siena, 339-40, 343, 350, 377, 393, 396-97, 401

Sienne R., 238

Silesia, 173, 281, 289, 297, 736

Sillaro R., 485

Simmern, 618, 704-5

Simpson, Lt. Gen. William, 266, 597, 616, 623, 757

Sinzig, 678, 690, 700, 705-6, 761

Siracourt, 90, 531-71

Skopje, 399, 474, 513

Slapton Sands, 135

Slessor, AM Sir John:

Allied interdiction, 389-90, 395

ANVIL, 385, 410, 412-13, 415

DAF, 419

DC/MA AF, 327, 482-83

Slovenia, 511

Smith, Brig. Gen. Frederic, Jr., 530

Smith, Lt. Gen. W. B., 96-97, 168, 245, 719

Smyser, Col. Rudolph, 567

Soest, 618, 682

Sofia, 299, 358, 399, 522

Soissons, 226, 267, 275

Somain, 153-54

Somervell, Gen. Brehon, 173

Somme R., 267, 538

Sora, 345, 387, 391

South African Air Force, 391, 4501/, 451/1, 484

Spaatz, Gen. Carl:

air (rm.) 68,, (support) 299, (transport) 558-61

Allied airborne force, 245

ARGUMENT, 31-33

Battle of Bulge, 685, 710

bridge destruction, ,57

CLARION, 735

comd. question, 7, 80-83, 140, 320-21, 620-22

comd. USSTAF, 6, 21, 108-10, 199, 327, 358, 573, 586, 716, 752, 786, (declares CBO over) 484, 754-55

coop. with Eisenhower, 319, 322

coord. attack, 299

CROSSBOW, 92, 100-101, 103, 123, 289, 530-32, 535, 537-38, 546

direcs., 722, 724, 753

fighter cover, 660

FRANTIC, 310- 11, 313, 318

French bases, 668-69

GAF, 287, 314, 661-63, 665, 717

German surrender, 785

H2X, 18

interdiction, 211, 371, (Italy) 478-79

jet campaign, 659, 666, 719

logistics, 305, 582

MARKET, 637

morale, 307

morale bomb., 284, 305, 638-39, 726, 733

Norwegian bomb., 720

oil campaign, 173-75, 280-81, 640, 650, 653, 656, 670, 721, 794

ord. campaign, 647

OVERLORD, 68, 144-45, 147-48, (vs. POINTBLANK) 26

poison gas, 148

preinvasion opns., 181

radar bomb., 14, 667

Swiss bomb., 735-36

trans. campaign, 74-75, 78-79, 160-61, (counterproposal CO) 76-77, 173

12th AF move to France, 440, 464

USSR liaison problem, 319, 748, 750

USSBS, 789-90

Special Force Headquarters, 493, 501, 503

Special Leaflet Squadron, 495-98. See also 422nd Bomb. Sq.

Special Operations Executive, 493, 501, 505, 509, 511, 514

Special Projects Operations Center, 506

Special Service Forces, 306, 414

Speer, Reichsminister Albert:

Allied failure to bomb Rhine, 655, (electric power stations) 800

Allied strat. bomb., 179, 287, 645, 648, 786

appointment, 788

Ardennes offensive, 656

dispersal of industry, 789, 792

Ger. production (a/c) 44, 60, 288, 658, 793, (oil) 641, 646, (tank) 649, 799

morale, 178

V weapons, 87

Sperrle, Gen. Hugo, 786

Spessart Mountains, 777

Speyer, 600, 623, 675, 677

SPOC. See Special Projects Operations Center.

Squadrons (numbered):

1st Ftr. Sq. (Braz.), 450n

2nd Air Combat Control Sq. (Amph.), 430

3rd Radio Sq. Mobile, 273

4th Antisubmarine Sq., 498

4th TC Sq., 516

7th TC Sq., 507, 509, 512, 516, 520

8th TC Sq., 516

10th TC Sq., 510-11, 521

16th TC Sq., 512-13, 517

21st Weather Sq., 548

22nd Antisubmarine Sq., 498

28th TC Sq., 521

36 Sq., 421

36th Bomb. Sq., 498

40th Mobile Comm. Sq., 548

51st TC Sq., 507, 509, 512-13, 519, 522

99th Ftr. Sq., 335n

109th T/R Sq., 673

111th T/R Sq., 450

122nd Bomb. Sq., 421, 506

122nd Liaison Sq., 506

148 Sq., 516

208 T/R Sq., 450n

216 Sq., 426

225 T/R Sq., 450n

301st Sq. (Pol.), 516

307th Ftr. Sq., 352

310th T/R Sq., 550

378th Ftr. Sq., 617

395th Ftr.-Bomber Sq., 549

406th Bomb. Sq., 495n, 496-98

414th Night Ftr. Sq., 418, 451n

416th Night Ftr. Sq., 451n

417th Night Ftr. Sq., 450n

422nd Bomb. Sq., 495

422nd Night Ftr. Sq., 675, 679, 687, 709

425th Night Ftr. Sq., 675, 680, 710

442nd Night Ftr. Sq., 616

624 Sq., 421, 505-6, 514

788th Bomb. Sq., 498-99

850th Bomb. Sq., 498-99

856th Bomb. Sq., 498, 500, 519

857th Bomb. Sq., 498

858th Bomb. Sq., 495, 498, 500, 519

859th Bomb. Sq., 498, 500, 512-13, 516, 518

885th Bomb. Sq., 421, 506-7, 509, 512-13, 515, 518

Stadtkyll, 694, 705

Stalin, Marshal Joseph:

FRANTIC, 309-10, 314

OVERLORD and ANVIL, 409

supplies to Warsaw, 317

Tehran conf., 4

Yalta conf., 724, 748, 750

Stalingrad, 647, 806

Stanmore, 5, 68, 80, 140, 228

Stavelot, 687, 694-95

Sterkrade, 644-45, 724

Stettin, 175, 477, 738, 749

Steyr, 38-39, 44, 55, 359, 648

Stimson, Sec. of War H.L., 96, 731, 790 -91

Stockheim, 677, 763

Stolberg, 611

Strahm, Brig. Gen. V. H., 108, 113

STRANGLE:

direc., 373-76

lack of night bombers, 378, 381

merger with DIADEM, 377, 383, 388

opns., 377-81, (eval.) 157, 382-84, 386, 395, (total) 393

Strasbourg, 155, 613, 6,8, 629, 701

Strasbourg, 435

Strategic bombing offensive:

air-raid toll, 801

claims, 802-4

command of, 56-57, 79-83, 279, 319-21

completed (by 8th AF) 752-53, (by 15th AF) 745-46

vs. CROSSBOW, 288-89

directives, 27-28, 174-76, 279-81, 640, 653, 718-19, 721, 725, 753

eval., 298, 302-4. 715-17, 739, 754, 787, 792-802 (see USSBS)

plan for completion of CBO, 76-77. See also Combined Bomber Offensive

Oil campaign

Ordnance campaign

Transportation campaign.

STUD, 145, 194

Stuttgart:

a/c factories, 35, 300-302, 659

airfields (Allied) 554, (GAF) 782

ball-bearing campaign, 41, 44

Battle of Bulge, 675, 682

captured, 777

trans. target, 652, 654, 719, 770, 781

Sudetenland, 281, 292

Sulmona, 341-42, 344, 352

Sunninghill, 110, 115, 552

Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, 437, 477-78, 481, 519

Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces. See Eisenhower.

Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces:

Air Staff, 622

Battle of Bulge, 685

Battle of France, 263, 455n, 637

bridge destruction, 158

CARPETBAGGER, 503

comd. question, 5-7, 81, 319-20, 561, 573, 621-22, 783

CROSSBOW, 99, 538-39, 545

direc. of 14 Sept. 1944, 321

DRAGOON, 437, 440-41

eval. air, 716

G-3, 682

Ger. jet planes, 304, 659, 719

intel. of Ger. counteroffensive, 681

interdiction, 623

It. campaign, 448

location, 67

morale bomb., 639, 727

ord. campaign, 720

OVERLORD, 58, 77, 142, 144-45, 147-48, 179

plans, 763-64, (St.-LO) 227

strat. vs, tac. bomb., 280, 669

supply, 598

TAC’s, 597

trans. campaign, 73, 75, 156, 161, 653, 655, 732-33, 753

Sweden, 307, 726, 742

Swinemünde, 738, 741-42

Switzerland, 86, 307, 437, 456, 735-36, 777, 784

SWORD, 143

–T–

Taben, 694, 696

Tactical Air Depot Area, 115

Tactical air liaison officers, 239n

Tactical Bomber Force, 333-35, 339-40, 345, 354

Tagliamento R., 405, 456, 460, 462, 464, 478

TALOS. See Tactical air liaison officers.

Taranto, 469-70

Tarascon, 420-21, 431

Target priorities and selection:

ARGUMENT, 30-31

CARPETBAGGER, 501

CBO, 15, 22, 27-29, 64-65

FRANTIC, 311-12

Goering’s appraisal, 786

interdiction (Balkans) 467, (France) 260, (Ger.) 617-18, 623-24, (Italy) 460-61, 484

jet a/c, 659, 662, 666, 719

MADISON, 626-27

MARKET, 601-2

morale bomb., 725

oil, 175, 281, 468, 640, 647-48, 653, 656, 661, 721, 751

ord. and motor vehicles, 646-47, 798

OVERLORD, 138, 142, 149

power stations, 801

strat. bomb., 279, 304-54 supplies to Balkans, 507, 513

trans. campaign, 150, 158, 462, 650, 653, 736, 796

U-boats, 720. See also CROSSBOW controversy.

Tarquinia, 355, 516

Tarvisio, 390, 406, 456, 460, 478-80

Tedder, ACM Sir Arthur:

airfield campaign, 166

Atlantic Wall, 168

Battle of France, 254

COBRA, 228

comd. question, 6-7, 80-81, 140, 319-21, 621-22

CROSSBOW, 103, 304, 527, 529n, 530, 532, 535-37, 540

GAF, 744-45

interdiction, 213, 650, 653, 735, 753

oil campaign, 175-76, 670

orgn. MAAF, 328

OVERLORD, 144

Rhine mass bomb., 655-56, 669

trans. campaign, 73, 76-78, 149, 152, 161, 174

Zuckerman thesis, 372

Tehran, 309, 311

conference, 4

Tempsford, 499

Tergnier, 124, 154

Terni, 339-42, 350, 374, 377, 396

Thane, 764

The Hague, 784

Thionville, 154-55, 165, 585, 624, 626-27

THUNDERCLAP, 639

Ticevo, 520

Ticino R., 445, 449

Tisza R., 473

Tito, Marshal, 391, 399, 472, 510-11, 515, 519n, 521-22, 748

Todt organization, 102n, 166

TORCH, 333, 408, 437

Torgau, 776

Torreberetti, 404-6, 445

TOTALIZE, 251

Toul, 568, 570

Toulon:

Allied (capture) 435, (invasion) 414-15, 426, 429, 433

harbor bombed, 291, 358, 381, 420, 423, 425

rail lines, 390

Toulouse, 221, 496

Tongues R., 261

Tours, 215, 217, 223

Traben, 680

Transportation campaign:

bridge destruction, 156-59

CLARION, 732-33, (eval.) 734-35

debate, 73-78, 650-56, 718

direc., 719, 721, 736

eval., 153-56, 159-62, 657, 671, 727, 729, 739, 746, 754, 788, 796-98

opns., 150-59, 654, 722, 725-26, 730-32, 738, 740-45

vs. other objectives, 72-73

Trebbia R., 403-4

Trento, 387, 459, 461-63, 466-67, 486

Trier:

Allied base, 571

Battle of Bulge, 675, 680, 686, 688, 692-94, 698

bridge destruction, 693, 696, 700

rail lines, 618, 657

Siegfried Line, 596

Trieste, 413, 455n, 468-69, 730-3’

Tripoli, 326

Trondheim, 720

Troop carrier operations. See Airborne operations.

Troyes, 154-55, 267

Truman, President Harry, 728

Truscott, Lt. Gen. Lucian, 429

Tunis, 5, 328, 337

Tunisia, 331, 333, 371, 408

Turin, 339, 380, 391, 397, 405-6, 445, 449, 516

Turner, Capt. Floyd, 520

Tutow, 33, 38-39

Twining, Lt. Gen. Nathan, 32, 305, 326-27, 336, ‘PI, 478, 754

Tyrrhenian Sea, 381, 385-86, 391, 417

–U–

U-boats:

bombed, 741, 744, 751

new types, 715, 717, 720, 789, 799

Udenbreth, 616

Udine, 351-52, 358, 379-80, 423, 464, 467, 471, 479, 515, 517

Ulm, 302, 647-48, 720, 737, 739-40, 777, 779, 781

UNDERTONE, 767-69

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:

AAF air support for, 380, 726, 729

air bases (for shuttle bombers) 290, 397, (in Hungary) 668

Balkan offensive, 455n, 472-73, 475, 479, 511

CROSSBOW, 538

eastern front, 638, 702, 706, 724-25, 728, 730-31, 736, 738-39, 741-46, 783-85, (juncture with West), 754, 756, 776, 778

FRANTIC, 148, 308-9, 311-12, 315

liaison problem, 476-77, 747-51

occupation zone, 789, 791

OVERLORD, 71

Rumania offensive, 174

summer offensive, 410-11, 426, 439, 788

supplies to Warsaw, 316

units under (MAAF) 330, (RAF) 522

V weapons, 86

United States Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom, 93, 108

United States Embassy (London), 76, 161, 163

United States Strategic Air Forces:

a/c production campaign, 288

air (rcn.) 179, (transport) 558-59, 561

ARGUMENT, 31, 35, 41, 43, 46

Balkan bomb line, 477

“Big Week,” 35

British aid, 583

comd. question, 56-57, 80-82, 319-22

control (of FAF) 332, (of 9th AF) 108-10, 123, 126, 133, 136, 554n, 573, 575, (of XII TAC) 437

coop. with MAAF, 326

coord. 8th AF and 15th AF, 32, 327-28

counter-air campaign, 358-59

CROSSBOW, 101, 305, 526, 538

Engr. Comd., 570-71

estbd., 6

eval. of Opns., 59, 161, 172, 295, 303, 318, 644, 668, 735-36

flak losses, 668

FRANTIC, 310, 315

ftr. alloc., 113, 579

GAF, 280, (buildup) 657-59, 661-62, 666, 719, (jet planes) 287-88, 295, 304

ground support, 29

H2X need, 18, 666

Hq. moved to France, 319

Joint Oil Targets Corn., 286

mission, 484, 640, 669, 721-22, 787

morale bomb., 638, 727, 799

oil campaign, 77, 179, 28,, 728, 794-95

ord. campaign, 647-48

OVERLORD, 68, 142, 148-49

plans, 49, 279

rate of opns., 293

strength, 578-80, 588

supplies to Warsaw, 316-17

target priorities, 75

trans. campaign, 74, 77, 154-56, 653, 726

12th AF move to France, 481-82

U-boat campaign, 720

USSBS, 789

United States Strategic Bombing Survey:

a/c campaign, 794

ARGUMENT, 4446

CROSSBOW, 106

eval. strat. bomb. campaign, 791-92

GAF (a/c acceptance rate) 6,-62, (defeat) 59

Gotha attack, 40

oil campaign, 795

ord. and vehicle campaign, 799

orgn., 789-90

target systems missed, 800-801

trans. campaign, 161, 797-98

Upper Silesia, 654

UTAH:

air assault, 141, 143, 170, 192

airborne assault (opn.) ,88, (plans) 70, 146

D-day opns., 186, 188-89, 198, 548

landing strips on, 563, 565

supplies, 577

Uxbridge, 113, 138, 140, 145, 194, 199, 202, 211, 244

–V–

Valence, 420, 432-34, 436-37

Valenciennes, 154, 273

Vandenberg, Lt. Gen. Hoyt:

AEAF comd. structure, 82

Battle of Bulge, 685, 710

CG 9th AF, 245, 573, 669, 708, 786

comd. question, 62,

coop. with Coningham, 254, 622

CROSSBOW, 100

Moscow mission, 309

trans. campaign, 149, 655-56, 736

Var R., 391, 420-21

Varreville, 70-71

VARSITY, 746, 751, 777, 774

Veghel, 600-601, 604

Velletri, 345, 360, 387

Venice, 405, 468, 489

Venetian plain, 453, 455-59, 463, 467, 480

Venlo, r24, 757, 762

Venraij, 614, 623

Ventimiglia, 339, 374, 397, 421-23

Vercors, 503-4

Verdun, 267, 568, 570, 667

VERITABLE, 756-57, 772

Vermand, 597

Verona:

airfields, 350

battle line, 448, 451

captured, 489

power station, 461-62

rail lines, 350, 380, 404-6, 445, 453, 459, 466-68, 479, 481

Versailles, 268, 573, 649, 685, 717

Vianden, 683, 694, 705, 709

Vicenza, 463, 467, 471, 480

Vichy, 414

fleet, 358

Vielsalm, 702, 705, 708

Vienna:

a/c factories, 390

bomb line, 749

Ger. defense, 287

oil targets, 644-45, 724, 742, 745

ord. targets, 178, 281, 283, 291, 299, 647, 649, 720

Russ. (advance to) 746, (bases) 747-48

trans. campaign, 473-74, 652, 654, 730-31, 784

Villach, 517

Villafranca, 403, 471

Villaorba, 343, 379

Villa Perosa, 26, 339, 358

Vipiteno, 481, 777

Vire, 197, 207, 246

Vis, 382, 399, 521

Viterbo, 340-43, 355, 358, 374, 396-97, 400

Vine’, 554

Vittorio Veneto, 517

Volklingen, 154, 680

Volturno R., 325-26

Vosges Mountains, 595

V weapons:

attacks on plants, 285, 294, 296, 799-800

experimentation, 85-87, 280

intel., 84, 91-93, 525

opns., 84, 86-88, 91n, 106, 284, 288, 526-45, 598, 638

plans, 88-89, 92-93

production plants, 86-87, 532-37, 788-89

sites (constr.) 84, 538, (large) 90, 102, 105-6, 529, 538-40, 546, (modified) 525-29, 531, 539-41, (ski) 98-100, 536

target priority, 279

–W–

Waal R., 604, 607

Wahn, 677, 692

Walcheren I., 602, 613-14

Walsh, Maj. Gen. Robert, 311

War Department:

CROSSBOW Corn., 96-97, 99

on Engr. Comd., 118

General Staff, 103

New Developments Div., 96

Warsaw, 316-18, 426

Warton, 130, 587

Watton, 84, 90-91, 498, 531n

WEARY-WILLIE, 531

Webster, Maj. Gen. Robert, 765n

Weimar, 729, 776

Welferding, 765

Welsh, AM Sir William, 101

Wengerohr, 635, 690, 694

Wenzendorf, 662-63

Wesel, 678, 706, 747, 757-58, 771

Weser R., 15, 729, 732, 736, 775, 793

Wesseling, 642, 645

Western Naval Task Force, 415, 435

Wetzlar, 680, 770

Weyland, Maj. Gen. Otto:

air-ground coop., 629

Battle of Bulge, 685

CG IX FC, 247

CG XIX ASC, 112, 550

CG XIX TAC, 243-44 247, 264, 676, 760

comd. question, 621

surrender of Gen. Elster, 266

WIDEWING, 78

Wiener Neustadt, 25

Wiesbaden, 626, 663, 770, 803

Wilhelmina Canal, 604

Wilhelmshaven, 10, 15, 17, 19-20, 25, 50, 54, 751

Williams, Maj. Gen. Paul, 114, 427n, 574, 601

Williams, Maj. Gen. Robert, 15

Wilson, FM Sir Henry:

ANVIL, 364, 385, 410-14, 419-20

Anzio, 365-66, 371

C in C AFHQ, 327

It. offensive, 448, 455n

Monte Cassino bomb., 362-63

SACMED, 29, 32, 82, 328, 339, 358, 477-78, 519

12th AF move to France, 440, 464

USSR liaison, 476-77

Winant, Amb. John, 303

“Window,” 56, 146, 188, 426, 620

Wings (numbered):

3rd Bomb. Wing, 110-12

3 Wing (SAAF), 484

4th Bomb. Wing, 312

5th Bomb. Wing, 335

7 Wing (SAAF), 451n

8 Wing (SAAF), 450n

IX TC Service Wing, 574, 587

42nd Bomb. Wing, 333-35, 339, 403, 418, 446-47, 454, 464-66, 579, 764, 780

47th Bomb. Wing, 336

49th Bomb. Wing, 336

50th TC Wing, 114, 427-72, 554-55

51st TC Wing, 335, 382, 391, 399, 401, 418-19, 427, 471-72, 475, 513-15, 518

52nd TC Wing, 114, 335, 554

53rd TC Wing, 114, 427-14 554-55

55th B0mb. Wing, 336

57th Bomb. Wing, 333-35, 339, 400, 403, 418, 433, 447, 456, 461, 464, 478, 484

63rd Ftr. Wing, 391, 400, 464-66

64th Ftr. Wing, 348, 450

70th Ftr.-Bomber Wing, 113, 125, 202, 549

71st Ftr. Wing, 113, 135-36

84th Ftr. Wing, 113

87th Ftr. Wing, 335, 387n, 3967, 400, 405

97th Bomb. Wing, 112, 550, 554

98th Bomb. Wing, 112, 550, 554, 567

99th Bomb. Wing, 112, 550, 554

100th Ftr. Wing, 113

232 Wing, 451

244 Wing, 335n, 344, 352

302nd Transport Wing, 558-62, 570, 579-80

303rd Ftr. Wing, 113

304th Bomb. Wing, 336

305th Bomb. Wing, 336

306th Bomb. Wing, 336

306th Ftr. Wing, 312, 336

307th Bomb. Wing, 336

324 Wing, 345, 450-72

334 Wing, 505, 507, 509-11, 513, 521-22

Winter Line, 336

Wizernes, 90, 531n

Wollseifen, 678-79, 682

Wood, Brig. Gen. Myron, 115n, 558

Worms, 600, 676, 775, 780

WOWSER, 483-84, 784

Würzburg, 770, 777

–X–

Xanten, 757-59

–Y–

Yalta conference, 724-26, 748-50, 791

YOKUM, 428

Yonne R., 267

Yugoslavia:

a/c campaign, 358

Ger. (evac.) 349, 467, 472, 474-75, (strength in) 455n

infiltration, 520

leaflet drops, 494, 518

Maclean mission, 519-20

oil campaign, 177, 281, 291, 297

Partisans, 382, 390-91, 472, 475, (evac.) 399, 511, 520-23, (supplied by Allies) 509-16

Russ. offensive, 749

trans. campaign, 283, 483, 722, 730, 742

units in (BAF) 399, (MAAF) 330

Yvrench-Bois-Carré, 91

–Z–

Zagreb, 399, 474-75, 477, 513, 749

Zara, 41, 522

ZEBRA, 503-4

Zeitz, 177-78, 281, 300, 644, 723

Zemun, 513

Zinnowitz, 293-94

Zon, 601, 604

Zossen, 743

Zuckerman, Prof. Solly, 73, 161, 170, 371-73, 376, 395

Zülpich, 677, 679, 683, 688, 693, 703, 705, 761

Zuid Beveland, 271

Zuider Zee, 600, 604

Zurich, 735

Zweibrücken, 628, 676, 706, 768

Zwickau, 176, 662