Index

–A–

A-20, 55, 65-71, 74, 76, 154-55, 159, 165

A-26, 215, 562, 571

A-28, 55, 554

A-30, 55

AAF Board, 334, 578

AAF Center, 518, 578

AAF/European Theater Reinforcement Depot, 573

AAF Flying Training Command, 36, 40, 529-30, 578

AAF Headquarters, 6, 18, 38, 41, 53, 61, 110, 112, 137, 144, 183, 207, 216, 244-45, 257, 272-73, 278, 319, 332, 336, 346, 351, 423, 438, 443, 467, 469, 475, 481, 494-95, 500, 511, 513, 520, 527, 530, 536, 539, 549-50, 553, 556, 558, 567

AAF Materiel Center, 485

AAF Materiel Command, 244, 486-87, 490, 518

AAF/MTO, 559-60, 573

AAF Proving Ground Command, 334, 536, 578-79

AAF School, 578-79

AAF School of Applied Tactics, 395, 518, 532, 535

AAFSC/MTO, 456, 465

AAF Tactical Center, 334

AAF Technical Training Command, 40, 536, 578

AAF technical training schools, 33-35

AAF Training Command (AAFTC), 31, 38, 70, 127, 140, 344, 395, 398, 436, 438, 440-43, 445-46, 495, 515, 518, 532, 536, 558, 564, 575, 578

AAF Weather Service, 319-20, 325-27, 334, 336, 575

AAF Weather Services, POA, 333

AAF Weather Wing, 319-20, 520, 536

Abbott, Col. Ward T., 280

Aberdeen, 110, 578

Accra, 49, 51, 58-60, 64-65, 68, 70, 91, 72-75, 77-78, 82-85, 126, 324, 349, 358-60

Adak, 171, 294, 330, 453

Adjusted Service Rating (ASR), 422, 553, 556-57, 559, 568n

Admiralty Islands, 284, 473

AEF (American Expeditionary Force, World War I), 504

Aeromedical evacuation, 27, 195-96, 199, 205-12, 537

Aeronautical Chart Service, 575

Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce, 340

Africa, 4, 6, 11, 25-35, 46-47, 50-51, 53-54, 56-57, 59, 62, 64, 66, 71-72, 74-75, 78, 80, 83-84, 86, 89, 92, 147, 154, 220, 241, 77, 249, 251, 263-64, 299, 320-21, 324, 327, 345, 349-50, 357-58, 360, 456, 498, 551, 555, 579

Africa-Middle East Wing, ATC, 13, 49, 53, 65, 73, 126, 130

African Airways Communications Area, 359-60

Agra, 129-30, 453

Airacobra. See P-39

Air Cargo Division, Air Service Command, 14

Air Corps, 5-8, 24, 146, 239-41, 243, 275, 285, 313-14, 316, 318, 326, 330, 339-41, 344, 365, 370-71, 374-75, 377-78, 381-82, 385, 478, 484-85, 510, 528

Air Corps Enlisted Reserve, 438

Air Corps Ferrying Command, 4-5, 7-9, 11-12, 14, 17, 20-21, 28-29, 31-34, 48, 50-51, 54, 87, 117-18, 121, 153-56, 174-77, 183, 192, 205-7, 529

Air Corps Flying Training Command, 384

Air Corps Reserve, 33, 35

Air Corps Tactical School, 12, 579

Air Corps Technical Committee, 341

Air Corps Technical School, 314

Air Corps Technical Training Command (TTC), 383-84

Aircraft Distribution Office, 167, 214

Aircraft Repair, Ltd., 66

Aircraft Warning Service, 505, 510, 539

Air Defense Command (ADC), 576-77

Air Engineer, Air Forces, CBI, 302

Air Engineer, Headquarters AAF, 241, 244, 246, 252, 273, 291, 293, 295, 297

Air Force Combat Command (AFCC), 8, 11, 20, 29, 33, 319, 378

Air Forces (numbered):

First, 214, 518, 536, 561-63, 575-76

Second, 12n, 101, 444, 446, 485, 518, 536, 560-61, 575-76

Third, 214, 495, 518, 536, 560n, 561-62, 575-76

Fourth, 495, 518, 533, 536, 561, 575-76

Fifth, 176, 182-83, 187-90, 193, 197, 277, 280, 282, 289-92, 312, 329, 331-32, 354-55, 419-20, 422, 456-57, 459, 462, 464, 468, 473, 481, 498-500, 574

Sixth, 431, 575

Seventh, 176, 178, 181-82, 197, 199, 298, 304, 355, 453, 460, 462, 464, 500, 574

Eighth, 13, 74, 76, 78, 91, 97-99, 103, 106, 111, 221, 226, 246, 265, 312, 324, 327-28, 332, 347, 360-61, 378, 389, 394-98, 400, 402, 411, 420, 422, 432, 436, 447, 453, 458, 460-63, 465, 471, 475, 478, 481, 488, 490, 494, 496-97, 520, 523, 558, 565, 572-74

Ninth, 56-58, 79, 91, 263, 265-66, 268, 272, 324, 328, 422, 450, 456, 458, 490, 565, 572, 576

Tenth, 32, 46, 56, 58, 91, 117, 119-21, 136, 149, 299, 301-2, 349, 356, 422, 461-62, 468, 554, 574n, 576n

Eleventh, 156-57, 159, 171, 205, 295, 448-49, 456, 461, 467, 469, 574, 576n

Twelfth, 74-77, 79, 91, 248, 317, 326, 359, 422, 449, 452, 464, 468, 498, 555n, 558-60, 565, 566n, 572-73, 576

Thirteenth, 182, 184-85, 189, 193, 287, 289, 296, 330, 332, 352, 354-55, 419-20, 422, 432, 455, 457, 462, 464, 482, 499-500, 574

Fourteenth, 58, 91, 124-25, 131, 135-37, 148-49, 302-3, 333, 357-58, 422, 453, 554, 574n, 576

Fifteenth, 91, 221, 260, 265, 327-28, 332, 422, 458, 462, 465, 471, 559, 565-66, 572-73, 576

Twentieth, 91, 226, 402, 422, 460, 500, 574

Air France, 81

Air Intransit Depot No. 6, 60-61

Airlines, civil, 3-5, 8-9, 12-14, 19-21, 24, 26, 31-34, 38-44, 82, 107, 119, 129, 170-71, 182, 206, 219, 224., 226, 314, 350, 575

Airlines War Training Institute, 39-41

Air Materiel Command (AMC), 23, 155, 167, 571-72, 575-78

Air Medal, 464-65

Airport Development Program of 1940, 50, 241n

Air Priorities Board, 81

Air Proving Ground, 576

Air Proving Ground Command (APGC), 579

Air Rescue Service, 575

Air Reserve program, 578

Air-Sea Rescue units, 482

Air Service Command, 14, 44, 60-61, 66, 129, 161, 164, 344, 539, 577

Air Service Command, CBI, 129-31, 139, 155

Air Staff, 7, 39, 63, 65, 100, 118, 125, 153, 155, 161-62, 170, 184, 207, 212, 216, 315, 371, 383, 410-11, 421n, 423, 467, 484, 509, 530, 563

Air Surgeon, 207, 533

Air Technical Command, 167

Air Technical Service Command (AT-SC), 214, 518, 557, 575, 577

Air Training Command, 576

Air Transportation Division, ATC, 15-16, 20, 40, 137

Air Transport Command (ATC), 3-7, 10, 14-20, 22-31, 33-36, 42-45, 321, 323, 325, 328, 330, 332-33, 335, 345-47, 351, 356-57, 360, 448, 459, 467, 477, 481, 498, 513, 518, 520, 524-25, 529, 532, 536, 565, 574-76

Air Transport Command Headquarters, 15, 25, 38, 123, 125, 129, 131-32, 135, 137, 142, 144-45, 153, 155, 157-58, 160-62, 164, 171, 185-86, 192, 202, 212-13

Air University Command, 576, 579

Air Wac Division, 513

Air Wac Officer, 511n, 513

Air War Plans Division, 6, 12

Alaska, 6, 11, 55, 152-55, 159-60, 162, 164, 205, 207, 241-42, 293, 295, 307, 317, 330-31, 338, 340, 343, 349-51, 402, 448, 570, 574, 580

Alaska Defense Command, 156-57, 160, 162-63, 170, 467

Alaskan Air Command (AAC), 574

Alaskan Department, 163, 170, 460

Alaskan Division, ATC, 164-68, 170-72, 351, 575

Alaskan Wing, ATC, 15, 157, 160-62, 164, 167-71, 209

Alcan. See Canadian-Alaskan Highway

Aleutian Islands, 170-72, 242, 276, 294-95, 330-31, 338, 350, 448-50, 456, 458, 460

Alexander, Brig. Gen. Edward H., 9, 116, 121-27, 130, 140, 192-94, 202

Algeria, 72, 250, 299, 448

Algiers, 70, 72-73, 77, 79, 81-83, 85, 97, 108, 248-49, 327 359

Allied Air Force Meteorological Service, 329

Allied Air Forces, India-Burma Sector, CBI, 139

Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area (AAF, SWPA), 277, 329

Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ), 252

ALSIB (Alaska-Siberia) project, 153-55, 164-67, 170

Amberley, 179-80, 182, 186, 188, 192, 355

American Airlines, 12, 88-89, 94, 98, 102-3, 128, 182, 219, 226

“American Air Transport Company,” 86

American Air Transport Service, 110

American Engineer Notes, 244

American Export Airlines, 97, 113, 219

American Red Cross, 436, 470-71

AMMISCA (American Mission to China), 32, 118

Anchorage, 152, 156, 60, 164, 171, 205, 330, 344, 346, 351

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 46, 74

Ankara, 86, 108

Annette Island, 330, 344

Antilles Department, 49

Anzio, 259-62

Archangel, 28, 154

Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Branch, 578

Arctic Training School, 162

Ardennes, 272-73

Armies (numbered):

First U.S., 252, 269

Third U.S., 108, 269

Sixth Chinese, 136, 149

Seventh U.S., 254

Eighth British, 57

Eighth U.S., 203

Tenth U.S., 197

Fifty-seventh Chinese, 136

Ninety-fourth Chinese, 49

Armstrong, Col. Harry G., 370, 389, 428

Army Air Corps, Chief of, 8, 313, 316, 318, 341, 371, 374, 378, 383-84

AAF (Army Air Forces), 3-6, 8, 14, 20-24, 26-31, 33, 38, 44, 47-48, 52-53, 56, 70, 78, 82, 92, 95-96, 112, 114, 129, 135, 151, 153-54, 173-74, 183, 192, 208, 241, 243, 252-53, 271, 275, 278, 287, 289, 294, 313-17, 319-20, 323-24, 326, 329-31, 333-36, 342, 344-47, 349-54, 360-61, 365-67, 371-72, 374, 377-80, 382-83, 386-89, 394, 396, 397n, 401-2, 407-13, 416-24, 429, 431-41, 444, 449-50, 452, 457, 466, 468, 471, 475-81, 483-498, 492, 494-500, 503, 509-21, 526-30, 534-41, 545, 550-51, 553-56, 562, 565-77, 579-82

Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Area (AAFPOA), 304, 331

Army Airways Communications System (ARCS), 112, 156, 188, 336-37, 341-47, 349-52, 354-62, 520, 574-75

Army General Classification Test, 372, 435

Army Ground Forces, 407, 435, 515, 519, 550, 553-54, 567, 576, 581

Army Nurse Corps, 521, 536, 537-39

Army Postal Service, 469-70

Army Service Forces (ASF), 214, 217, 220, 224, 226, 302-3, 373-74, 407, 409-10, 422, 435, 480, 515-17, 519, 549, 553-54, 564, 567, 581

Army Special Services, 436, 470-72

Army, U.S., 18, 21, 30, 39, 102, 117, 121, 124, 170, 174-75, 177, 239-40, 242, 245, 271, 274, 276-79, 283, 286-89, 291, 293, 295, 302, 304, 307, 313-14, 317, 326, 331, 337, 339-41, 343, 352, 354, 356, 366, 371, 389, 391, 408-12, 420n, 421, 445, 448-49, 451, 469, 477, 492, 495, 497-98, 503-9, 511, 513-4, 516, 519-20, 523, 527-28, 531, 535, 537-38, 546-48, 550-53, 562, 572, 576n, 581-82

Arnold, General of the Army Henry H., 7, 14, 17, 31-32, 38-39, 54, 59, 82, 87, 101, 107, 120-23, 125-28, 130-31, 133, 138, 153, 155, 157, 160, 165, 177, 180, 191, 200-201, 208, 216, 239, 241, 244-45, 253, 293, 301-2, 314, 320, 326, 340, 343, 346-47, 349, 379, 385n, 391, 410, 423, 429, 444, 474, 486-87, 495, 511n, 512, 527-30, 533, 535, 550, 553, 569, 572

Ascension Island, 50-52, 57, 65, 69, 72, 74-75, 447

ASCOM (Army Service Command), 288-89

Asensio, Col. Manuel J., 301

Asheville, 319-20, 336, 346

Asiatic, 325, 350, 549, 565

Asiatic Airways Communications Area (AACA), 350, 357

Assam, 114-19, 123, 125-28, 130-31, 133-35, 137, 139-42, 146, 149-50, 209, 357-58, 451

Assam and Bengal Railroad, 117, 134

Assam-Burma-China Ferry Command, 118

Assam-China Sector, ATC, 129

AT-7, 480

AT-II, 480

Atar Fld., 66, 74-75, 79

Athens, 85, 108

Atkinson Fld., 51-52, 67, 70, 221-23, 323

Atlantic City, 434, 437, 551

Atlantic Division, ATC, 575

Atlas Mountains, 78, 249

ATS, 508

Atsugi Airport, 203, 356

Attu, 171, 293-95, 330, 350

Auckland, 183, 185

Aurora Borealis, 152, 347

Australia, 6, 28, 32, 45, 47, 54, 216, 173-83, 185-86, 190, 192-93, 196, 198, 201-2, 276-77, 279-80, 283, 285-87, 293, 317, 329-30, 350, 354-55, 418-19, 450-51, 463, 473-74

Australian Meteorological Service, 329

Austria, 274

Aviation Section, Signal Corps, 376

AWPD/1, 5-7, 12

Azores, 6, 82, 86-89, 100-101, 106, 148, 213, 215, 217, 221-22, 322-23

–B–

B-10, 340

B-17, 66, 75, 77-78, 97-100, 102, 104, 173, 176, 213, 215, 221, 223, 250, 255, 278, 322, 372, 396, 461-63, 482, 485, 487-88, 492, 532, 571

B-24, 8, 11, 20-21, 26-28, 33, 35, 44, 56-59, 66-68, 76, 79-79, 88, 99, 104, 110-11, 122, 128, 148, 179, 182-83, 198, 213, 226, 263, 333, 396, 444, 459-62, 464, 482, 484, 492-93, 532, 560, 571

B-25, 55-57, 65, 67, 74, 101, 132, 154, 159, 169, 176, 215, 262, 291, 322, 325, 332, 460, 484, 487, 492, 532, 554, 562

B-26, 65, 74, 176, 249, 252, 263, 444, 532, 562n

B-29, 33, 86-87, 90, 137, 147, 172, 197-99, 202, 226, 244, 302-7, 325, 333, 357, 428, 444, 446, 463, 474, 479, 481-83, 488-89, 492, 494, 499-500, 560, 571

B-34, 55, 484

Baffin Island, 93, 321, 343

Baker, Col. George P., 581

BAKER-SIXTY, 201

Balchen, Col. Bernt M., 110-12

Balikpapan, 459

Balkans, 86

BALL project, 111-112

Baltimore, 10n

Bandel, Lt. Col. Betty, 509, 513-14, 525

Bangor, 98

Bari, 209, 360, 450, 554n, 555n

Barksdale Fld., 341

Base Air Depot Area, 573

Basra, 46-47, 55

Bataan, 242

Bathurst, 64, 73-74, 76-77, 359

Battalions (numbered):

385th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 260

734th Military Police, 566

801st Engineer Aviation (EAB), 307

803rd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 242

804th Engineer Aviation, 241-42, 297-98, 304

805th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 304

806th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 304

807th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 242, 294-95

808th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 276, 278-79, 282, 289

809th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 248-49, 254-56, 260, 264

810th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 291, 296-97

811th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 296, 307

812th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 263

813th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 295

814th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 248-51, 254-56, 261

815th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 248-49, 254-57, 259-62

817th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 248-49, 254, 258-59, 262

819th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 267

820th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 267

821st Engineer Aviation (EAB), 289, 297

823rd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 199

828th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 297

834th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 267, 271

835th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 262

836th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 284, 286-87

841st Engineer Aviation (EAB), 183, 287, 292

842nd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 281, 289

845th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 261

846th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 273

848th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 299

849th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 299

853rd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 299, 302

854th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 298, 307

855th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 293

856th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 283

857th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 292

858th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 299-300

860th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 283, 285-86

863rd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 283, 285, 292

864th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 283, 285-86

871st Airborne Engineer Aviation, 250, 280-8

872nd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 281, 292

879th Airborne Engineer Aviation, 301

874th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 286

1876th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 287

1878th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 304

1880th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 300

1881st Engineer Aviation (EAB), 289

1883rd Engineer Aviation (EAB), 299

1886th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 307

1889th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 307

1891st Engineer Aviation (EAB), 300

1894th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 304

1906th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 290

1913th Engineer Aviation (EAB), 283

Battle of Britain, 314, 496

Bay of Bengal, 462, 483

Beebe, Brig. Gen. Eugene H., 122

Belem, 50, 68, 217, 121-23, 323, 447

Belgian Congo, 55, 73, 206

Belgium, 272-73, 362, 470

Belgrade, 86, 108-9

Bell Aircraft Corp., 165-67

Belyaev, Maj. Gen. Alexander I., 154-55

Bengal, 138, 142, 150, 302, 358, 448

Bengal, Sea of, 325

Bengasi, 263, 457, 554n

Berg, Maj. Walter B., 349

Berlin, 108, 151, 426, 456, 458

Bermuda, 86, 89, 102, 336

Bhano, 114, 118, 145

Biak, 195-97, 201, 211, 284-86, 291, 356, 448, 452

Big Delta Air Base, 162-64

“Big Week,” 312

Bismarck Sea, 279, 312

Bissell, Maj. Gen. Clayton L., 119, 123

BLACKLIST, 201

“Black Sunday,” 459

Blake, Lt. Col. Gordon, 178

BLUIE EAST 2, 321

BLUIE WEST 1 (BW-1), 93, 99-100, 321, 343, 348, 446

BLUIE WEST 8 (BW-8), 93, 321-22, 343

Blythe Fld., 443

Board of Economic Warfare (BEW), 206

Boeing Aircraft Co., 21, 24, 26, 47

Boisson, Pierre, 72, 74

BOLERO, 92, 99-100, 322

Bolling Fld., 11, 15, 35, 316, 340, 349, 557

Bombardment Section, OCAC, 12

Bombay, 116, 299

Bond, Douglas D., 415

Bone, 251-52

Bora Bora, 183-84

Bordeaux, 108

Borinquen Fld., 49-50, 67-68, 219, 222, 446

Bovingdon, 109

Bowhill, Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick, 95

Bowman Fld., 207, 338, 537

Bradley Fld., 214, 558, 560, 562

Brahmaputra River, 114, 117, 299

Braniff Airlines, 15

Brazil, 6, 46-47, 49-50, 53, 66, 76, 206, 215, 217, 223, 321, 349, 447, 530

Bremen, 109

Brereton, Lt. Gen. Lewis H., 56-59, 117-19, 257, 265, 273

Brest, 78

Brett, Lt. Gen. George H., 8, 178

Brewer, Col. George, 154

Brigades (numbered):

1st Engineer Aviation (EA), 269, 272

2nd Engineer Aviation (EA), 269, 271

3rd Engineer Aviation (EA), 273

Brindisi, 260-61

Brisbane, 174, 179, 190-91, 193-94, 196, 329, 355

Bristles, hog, 7, 147, 206

Britain, 4-9, 13, 15, 26n, 28-29, 33, 46-47, 49-51, 53, 55-56, 58, 63-64, 73-85, 87-89, 92-99, 108-13, 119, 123, 126-27, 134, 173-74, 210, 223, 240, 241n, 245-48, 250, 253-54, 256, 259, 260-61, 265, 299, 302-3, 312, 317, 321-24, 326-28, 337-38, 344, 347-49, 360-61, 401-2, 432, 444, 447, 449-50, 455, 470-74 473, 477-78, 481, 485, 488, 490-92, 494-98, 504, 506-7, 521, 571, 581

British Admiralty, 328

British Air Ministry, 493, 496

British Air/Sea Rescue Service, 488

British General Post Office, 347

British Guiana, 50, 65, 320, 323

British Indian troops, 134

British Isles. See Britain

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), 81

British West Indies, 320

Brittany, 269

Broadway, 92

Brooks Fld., 376, 576n

Brown, Joe E., 472

Brownsville, 45

Brussels, 105, 109

Bucharest, 86, 109

Buckley Fld., 440

Budapest, 86, 108

Budd, Edward G., Manufacturing Co., 22

Buffalo, 167

Buna, 279, 355

Bureau of the Budget, U.S., 505, 577

Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S., 350

Bureau of Public Relations, War Dept., 164

Burma, 7, 27, 118, 122, 124, 132, 135-36, 141-42, 149, 209, 245-46, 280n, 299-303, 317, 320, 333, 350, 357-58, 461, 478, 554, 574n

Burma Road, 114

Burrows, Col. Paul E., 96-97, 106

Buttonwood, 574

Byroade, Brig. Gen. Henry A., 299, 302

–C–

C-46, 5, 24-28, 39, 43-45, 90-91, 121, 123-28, 130, 132, 134, 136, 141-42, 144-45, 148-49, 171, 190, 202, 215, 217, 219, 451, 532, 577

C-47, 3, 5, 22, 24-26, 42-46, 57, 59, 69, 71, 77, 85, 90, 111, 114, 117, 121, 123, 130-32, 148-49, 159-60, 165, 183, 191, 193-95, 202-3, 216-18, 221, 223, 225-26, 250, 267, 280, 356, 571

C-54, 3, 5, 25-27, 29, 35, 43-45, 54, 59, 78-79, 82-83, 86, 88, 91, 94, 97, 101-3, 105, 126, 139, 41-45, 150, 171, 180, 183, 186, 188, 193-96, 198-203, 209-10, 216-17, 219-21, 224-26, 323, 532

C-60, 43, 532-33

C-62, 22-23

C-64, 171

C-69, 26-27, 39

C-74, 26

C-75, 21, 24, 26-27, 47, 59, 78

C-76, 23

C-82, 23

C-87, 28-29, 35, 43-45, 54., 59, 66, 71, 77-80, 85, 99, 116, 121-23, 125-26, 128-29, 137, 141, 144, ,80, 183-84, 186, 199

C-93, 22

C-97, 26, 94

C-109, 139, 141-42, 144

C-119, 23

CAA War Training Service, 535

Cairo, 10, 13, 46-48, 53, 56-57, 59, 64-65, 71, 73-74, 79, 81-86, 108

Calcutta, 87, 114-17, 127, 135, 139, 142, 146, 299, 346, 473

Calgary, 169

California Institute of Technology, 313-14

California Sector, ACFC, 10n

Cambridge University, 471

Camp Davis, 534, 551

Camp Myles Standish, 214

Canada, 4, 6-7, 92-93, 95, 152, 155-57, 162-63, 207, 241n, 271, 317, 321-22, 331, 337-38, 351, 530

Canadian-Alaskan (Alcan) Highway, 160-61

Canol Project, 160-61, 171

Canton Island, 174, 178, 183-84, 186, 188, 242, 350

Caravan. See C-76

Caribbean, 6, 43, 47, 49, 65, 76, 207, 215, 222, 241, 316, 325n, 335, 338, 342, 345, 431, 455, 575

Caribbean Air Command (CAC), 575

Caribbean Defense Command, 49

Caribbean Division, ATC, 44, 218-19, 221-23, 225, 575

Caribbean Wing, ATC, 16, 49-50, 96, 130, 192

Casablanca, 63-64, 72-73, 75-78, 80-82, 84-85, 89-90, 108, 121, 216-17, 219, 221-22, 225, 248-49, 346, 359-60

Caserta, 262, 327

Casey, Maj. Gen. Hugh J., 277-78

Catalinas, 492-94, 497-98

Cazes Airdrome, 77, 216, 221

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 132

Central African Division, ATC, 219

Central African route, 65

Central African Sector, Africa-Middle East Will., ATC, 73, 129

Central African Wing, ATC, 49, 74

Central Flying Training Command, 531-32

Central Pacific Area, 276, 297, 331, 343, 355, 448, 454, 460, 462, 473-74, 499

Central Pacific Wing, ATC, 192, 196-97, 202

Ceylon, 358, 492

Chabua, 115, 118, 122-23, 125, 130-32, 141, 349-50, 357

Chanute Fld., 314, 510

Chanyi, 136, 139, 148-49

Chapin, Dr. James P., 53

Charles, Col. Chester, 192

Charleston, 45, 214, 263

Charleston Army Air Field, 225

Charleville, 174

Chartres, 270, 362

Chemical Warfare Service, 266, 313

Chengkung, 148-49

Chengtu, 137, 139, 145, 303, 325

Chennault, Maj. Gen. Claire L., 122, 124-26, 131, 135-36, 139, 148, 299, 302

Cherbourg, 268, 270

Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo, 121-22, 124, 151

Chiang Kai-shek, Mme, 124-25

Chicago, 346, 490

Chief of the AAF, 318, 371

Chief, AAF Weather Service, 320

Chief of Air Corps. See Army Air Corps

Chief of Air Service, 376

Chief of Army Engineers, 162

Chief Engineer, GHQ, SWPA, 277

Chief Signal Officer, 334, 341

Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 93, 375, 378, 547-49

China, 6, 24-25, 32, 43, 46-47, 56-58, 86-87, 114-28, 130, 133, 135-42, 145-51, 189, 206, 209, 216, 299-300, 302-3, 312, 317, 320, 324-25, 333, 349-51, 356, 358, 447, 449-50, 453, 455, 469, 472, 494, 505, 521-22, 554, 574, 581

China Air Task Force, 124

China Bay, 492

China-Burma-India Theater (CBI), 44, 57, 82, 86-87, 89-91, 120, 125, 128, 136-38, 147, 189, 192, 220, 299, 302, 324-25, 333, 356, 395, 402, 422, 467, 472-73, 475, 493, 495, 520, 545, 554-55, 557-58, 566

China Defense Supplies, 117

China National Aviation Corp. (CNAC), 114-15, 117, 122, 206

China Sea, 114, 358

China Theater, 147

Chindits, 301

Chinese Defense Supplies, Inc., 120

Chinese troops, 134, 146, 149-50, 301

Chinese War Area Service Corps, 450-51

Christmas Island, 174, 178, 183-84, 241, 329, 350

Chungking, 53, 114, 121-22, 132, 136, 351

Churchill, 93

Churchill, Winston, 123, 518

CINCPOA (Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean Area), 304, 499

Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), 153, 156, 317, 330, 337, 343-44, 350-51

Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 18

Civil Air Patrol, 540

Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), 39, 314

Civil Service Commission, U.S., 534

Civil War (US.), 546

Clark Fld., 292, 356

Clark, Gen. Mark W., 103

Class I pilots, 37, 533

Class V pilots, 533

Class P pilots, 37

Clipper, 21, 46, 59

Coast artillery, 52, 313

Coast Guard, U.S., 323, 351, 479-80, 508

Coates, Maj. Edward, 71

Coates, Col. Francis M., 143

Cochran, Miss Jacqueline, 3,, 528-29, 531, 534-35

Cochran, Col. Philip G., 301

Cocos Islands, 54-55

Cold Weather Testing Detachment, 157, 159, 579

Colomb-Bechar, 71

Colombo, 147

Colonna, Col. John O., 248, 252

Columbia Army Air Base, 562-64

Combat Command. See Air Force Combat Command

Combat Crew Training Station (CCTS), 393-94

Combat pilot, 30

Combined Bomber Offensive, 98, 327

Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS), 87, 124-25, 133, 317, 319

Combined Meteorological Committee, 317

Commanding General of the AAF. See Arnold, General of the Army Henry H.

Commando. See C-46

Commands (numbered):

I Troop Carrier, 518, 536, 557n, 561, 575

IV Air Support, 174

V Air Force Service, 180, 188, 192, 452, 456, 473

V Bomber, 280

V Fighter, 448, 498

VIII Air Force Service, 106, 108, 565

VIII Air Support, 328

VIII Bomber, 99, 397, 399, 488, 490, 497

VIII Fighter, 13, 94

IX Air Force Service, 270, 574

IX Engineer, 258, 266, 270-72

IX Tactical Air, 269

IX Troop Carrier, 576

X Air Service, 125, 127

XI Air Force Service, 157, 445

XII Air Force Engineer, 258

XII Air Force Service, 70, 248, 252, 257, 454-55

XII Bomber, 70, 459

XII Fighter, 70

XII Tactical Air, 573

XIII Air Force Service, 296, 456

XIII Bomber, 464, 499

XIX Tactical Air, 269

XX Bomber, 86-87, 90-91, 136-37, 139, 146, 302, 325, 333, 357, 463, 565

XXI Bomber, 197-98, 304, 307, 333, 458, 499-500

Commitments Division, 556

Communications Facilities Section, AAF Weather Service, 336

Communications Section, Training and Operations Division, 341

Communications Wing, 346

Companies (numbered) :

683rd Signal Aircraft Warning, 560n

887th Engineer Airborne, 264

888th Airborne Engineer Aviation, 250, 253-54

896th Engineer Aviation, 295

900th Airborne Engineer Aviation, 301

Congress, U.S., 124, 535, 548-49, 577

Consairways, 177, 182, 186, 188, 198-99, 201-2

Consolidated Aircraft Corporation’s Flight and Training Department, 175-77

Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., 144, 150, 177-78, 180

Constellation. See C-69

Continental Air Forces, 557, 562, 567-69, 575-76

Continental Division, ATC, 162, 575

Contract Air Cargo Division, ATC, 14

Coral Sea Battle, 296

Cornwall, 78-79, 96

Corregidor, 242

Corsica, 85, 262-63, 360

CRESCENT, 20n, 44, 89, 103n

CRIMSON, 93-94, 322, 343

CRYSTAL I, 93-94, 321-22, 343

CRYSTAL II, 93-94, 321-22, 343

CRYSTAL III, 93, 321-22, 343

Curtiss-Wright Corp., 5, 23-24

CW-20, 24

Cyclone Task Force, 286

Cyrenaica, 431, 448

–D–

Dakar, 64, 72-77, 82, 85, 102, 215-17, 219, 221, 359

Dakar/Yof, 72

Darlan, Admiral Jean, 72

Darwin, 276-77, 448

Davidson, John F., 88

Davis, Capt. Richard M., 183-86

Davis-Monthan Fld., 560

Davison, Brig. Gen. Donald A., 239-40, 244, 248-52, 257

Davison, Col. F. Trubee, 549-50, 553, 581n

DC-3, 3, 5, 21-22, 32, 106, 114, 119, 121-23, 148, 156, 158, 171, 215

DC-4, 3, 21, 24, 26

Defense Meteorological Committee, 317

Delhi, 324, 357

Department of Transport, Canadian, 153, 257-58, 162

Derevyanko, Lt. Gen. Kuzma M., 204

Desert Air Force, 260

Detachment, 7th Airways, 178, 181

Detroit, 10n

Detroit Sector, ACFC, 10n

DH-4, 443

Dill, Field Marshal Sir John, 121, 518

Dinjan, 115, 119, 122, 145, 324

Directorate of Air Transport (DAT), 178-79, 186, 190-92

Directorate of Communications, 346

Director of Flying Safety, 478

Director of Technical Services, 319, 346

Director of Traffic Control and Regulations, 478

Director of Weather, 319, 326

Director of Weather Services, 328

Director of Women Pilots, 529-30

DISC project, 149

Divisions (numbered):

1st Infantry, 255

First Marine, 329

3rd Infantry, 256

7 (Indian), 134

11th Airborne, 202-3

14th (Chinese), 136

22nd (Chinese), 136

27th Infantry, 202-3

871st Airborne, 248

Dobodura, 194, 279, 355, 452

Domestic Division, ACFC, 10

Domestic Transportation Division, ATC, 20, 40-41

Domestic Wing, ACFC, 10, 13, 15, 29-30

Doolittle, Lt. Gen. James H., 74, 249

Douglas, Col. James H., Jr., 138

Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., 5, 24, 26-27, 46, 114-15, 118, 121, 165, 349

Dow Fld., 98-99

DRAGOON, 264-65

DUKWs, 463

Dulag, 289-90

“Dumbo,” 124, 463, 494, 499-500

Dupuy, Maj. Fred K., 177-79

Dutch Harbor, 156, 170, 242, 330

–E–

Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C., 106, 397, 467

East Anglia, 246-47, 447

East Bengal, 139, 146

Eastern Air Command, 139, 333, 493, 574

Eastern Air Lines, I 1, 24-25, 47, 221

Eastern Flying Training Command, 533-34

Eastern Sector, India-China Wing, ATC, 129

East Indies, 47, 173, 276

Edgewood, 105, 578

Edmonton, 152, 157-60, 162, 166, 169-71, 352

Eglin Fld., 334, 578-79

Egypt, 47, 51, 55, 57-58, 64, 263, 324

Eighth Air Force Ferry and Transport Service, 77, 93-95

Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D., 63, 72-73, 82-83, 97, 258, 328, 506, 558

Eknes Fld., 72, 75

El Alamein, 55, 450

Eleusis Fld., 87

Elisabethville, 55, 349

Ellice Islands, 211, 297

Elmendorf Fld., 205, 343, 448

Elsmore, Col. Ray T., 190

Emergency Rescue School, 395, 479

Emergency Rescue Squadrons, 480-81

Emmons, Lt. Gen. Delos C., 180

ENCOM (Engineer Construction Command), , 292-93

Engineer Command (MTO), AAF, 258, 263

Engineer Command, NAAF, 245

Engineer Command, USSTAF (Provisional), 272

Engineer, GHQ Air Force, 240

Engineering Division, AMC, 577

Engineers, Chief of, 239-40, 245

Engineers, Corps of, 160, 163, 239-41, 244, 275, 299

Engineer troops, 155

England, 77-78, 212, 240, 246-49, 252, 257, 265-66, 268, 314, 324, 328, 389, 395, 397-98, 400, 404, 418-19, 428, 453, 456, 459, 471, 482-83, 488, 504, 520, 528, 530. See also Britain

English Channel, 478, 481, 483, 496, 498

Equipment Laboratory, Materiel Command, 487, 489

Espiritu Santo, 183-86, 193-94, 421, 448, 491

ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army), 378, 558n

European Air Materiel Command, 574

European Air Transport Service, 573

European Aviation Engineer Command, 573

European Division, ATC, 85, 107-9, 111, 522, 524-25, 572, 575

European Theater of Operations (ETO), 15, 77, 80, 85, 91, 96, 102, 104-5, 109, 113, 209, 211-13, 215-16, 220, 252, 308, 328, 358, 378, 389, 395, 398-99, 401n, 402-4, 422, 428, 450, 462, 464, 470, 477, 481-82, 486, 488, 495, 500, 520, 522-27, 545, 551, 554-55, 558, 565-67, 573

Exact Manning Tables, 49, 181

–F–

F-5, 532

F-13, 333, 494

Fairbanks, 152-55, 158-59, 162-63, 165-68, 170-71, 330, 344, 351

Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp., 23

Fairfield Air Depot, 4, 129

Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field, 182

Far East, 151, 212, 321, 359, 572

Far East Air Forces (FEAF), 193, 195, 197, 202-3, 226, 289, 292, 332, 402, 474, 499, 520, 525-26, 574

Far East Air Service Command, 523, 526, 571, 574

Ferguson, Col. Thomas D., 219

Ferrying Command. See Air Corps Ferrying Command

Ferrying Division, 15-16, 20, 31, 34-37, 41, 44-45, 76, 88-89, 99-101, 103, 105, 129, 138-39, 157-59, 166-67, 169, 177, 183, 200, 202, 205, 208, 214, 219-20, 226, 529, 575

Ferrying groups, 13, 35, 48, 167

Fifth Air Force University, 472

Fighter Command, RAF, 78

Fiji. Islands, 174, 188, 297, 354

Filipino, 289, 292

Finschhafen, 193-95, 282-83

FIREBALL, 20n, 44, 89, 103n, 129-30

Fitzgerald, Brig. Gen. Shepler W., 54, 65

Flanagan, Col. John C., 383

Fleet, Fourth U.S., 217

Fleet, Seventh U.S., 203, 499

Fleet Marine Force, 421

Flickinger, Col. Donald D., 132

Flight Control Command, 319, 346, 479

“Flying Boxcar.” See C-119

Flying Fortress. See B-17

Flying Safety Service, 575

Flying training schools, AAF, 33, 35, 38-39

Foggia, 260-61, 265, 471

Foreign Division, ACFC, 10

Foreign Wing, ACFC, 10, 13, 15, 157

Formosa, 137, 151

Forrest, Brig. Gen. N. B., 444

Fortaleza, 51, 219

Fort Nelson Air Base, 158, 162

Fortress. See B-17

Fort St. John Air Base, 158, 162

FOX flight, 67, 69

France, 5, 63-64, 69, 72, 81, 91, 106, 108, 240, 248-50, 262-67, 269-70, 273, 278, 300, 314, 317, 362, 450, 470, 571

FRANTIC, 80

Frazier, Capt. Everette E., 280-81

Free French, 64

French Equatorial Africa, 55, 73

French Guiana, 49

French Indo-China, 135

French Morocco, 79

French North Africa, 63

French West Africa, 71-72, 74

Fritz, Col. Lawrence J., 100, 158

Frobisher Bay, 93

Funafuti, Ellice Islands, 184, 211, 463

FW-190, 461

–G–

Gaffney, Brig. Gen. Dale V., 157, 161, 163-64, 169

GALAHAD, 135

Galbraith, Capt. Charles O., 88

Galena Air Base, 158, 162, 164

Gander, 95, on, 321-22, 324, 343

Gardner, Col. George E., 157

Gatty, Group Capt. Harold, 178-79

Gaya, 124, 127, 472

General Staff, War Department, 326, 373, 503, 505, 558

George, Lt. Gen. Harold L., 12, 17, 20, 38-39, 59, 63, 65, 71, 73, 87, 95-96, 106, 122, 124, 126, 128-31, 133, 138, 143, 146, 158, 177, 180, 182, 184-86, 190-91, 199, 207, 224, 467, 481

German Air Force (GAF), 272

Germany, 47, 86-87, 103-5, 111, 154, 199, 239, 250-51, 255-58, 260, 264, 267-74, 299, 304, 312, 328, 337, 362, 398, 402, 433, 458, 460, 481, 530, 549-51, 555-56, 558, 565, 572-73

GHQ, Army Forces in the Pacific (AFPAC), 307

GHQ, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), 188, 191-92, 194-95, 202-3, 277, 283, 286-87, 289-90, 292

GHQ Air Force, 318

Gibraltar, 63, 78, 81

Gilbert Islands, 297, 331, 333, 354-55, 452

Giles, Lt. Gen. Barney M., 315-16

Giles, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F., 13, 88, 94-95, 101

Godfrey, Brig. Gen. Stuart C., 240, 244-46, 252-53, 257, 295, 301-3

Gold Coast, 49, 64, 324, 349

Goose Bay, 93-94, 99-100, 322, 348, 446

Gore Fld., 158, 167-68

Grand Prairie, 10n

Grant, Maj. Gen. David N. W., 371n

Great Britain. See Britain

Great Falls, 93, 152, 155-56, 158, 167-69

Greenland, 75, 93-94, 96n, 99, 207, 241, 321-23, 343, 348

Greenland Base Command, 13

Greenland Ice Cap, 348

GREEN project, 45, 200, 213, 216, 219-22, 224-26

Greensboro, 436, 446, 551

Grevenberg, Maj. Marion E., 67-69

Groups (numbered):

1st Air Transport, 4

1st Combat Cargo, 145

1st Ferrying, 13n 32, 118-20

1st Tactical (AACS), 357

2nd Bomb., 75

2nd Ferrying, 76

3rd Air Depot, 453

3rd Combat Cargo, 145

3rd Ferrying, 167

4th t Combat Cargo, 145

7th Bomb., 145, 461

7th Ferrying, 156, 167-68

8th Fighter, 291

11th Bomb. (H), 448

12th Bomb. (M), 56-57, 554

14th Ferrying, 73

15th Airdrome Construction (British), 259

17th Bomb., 65, 74, 458, 461

19th Bomb., 33

22nd Service, 180

23rd Fighter, 447, 453

26th Air Transport, 129

27th Air Transport, 106

27th Bomb., 63, 74, 447

31st Fighter, 566

33rd Fighter, 554

34th Bomb. (H), 444

35th Fighter, 566n

40th Bomb. (VH), 446

41st Bomb. (M), 455, 461

43rd Service, 456-57

47th Bomb., 74

51st Fighter, 122

52nd Fighter, 566

57th Fighter, 56

58th AACS, 360

59th Air Service, 203

62nd Troop Carrier, 554

64th Troop Carrier, 554

68th AACS, 355-56

68th Observation, 65-66, 68, 70-71, 74

70th AACS, 355

71st ARCS, 355

79th Fighter, 453

81st Fighter, 554

91st Bomb., 401n

92nd Bomb., 488

94th Bomb., 401n

98th Bomb. (H), 56-57, 456, 458

99th Bomb., 75

216th Transport (RAF), 81

305th Bomb., 401n, 461

306th Bomb., 401n

308th Bomb., 122, 145, 148

316th Troop Carrier, 57

319th Bomb., 74, 561-63, 565-66

320th Bomb., 65, 74, 444

321st Bomb., 65, 74

325th Fighter, 75, 455

369th Air Service, 560-62, 565-66

374th Troop Carrier, 190

376th Bomb. (H), 456

381st Bomb., 401n

384th Bomb., 401n

443rd Troop Carrier, 145

460th Bomb., 219

489th Bomb., 560-62

500th Bomb., 466

514th Air Service, 561-63, 565-66

547th Air Service, 566n

Grow, Brig. Gen. Malcolm C., 370, 397, 402

Guadalcanal, 183, 185-86, 188, 193-94, 201, 307, 404, 428-29, 453, 491

Guam, 296-97, 211, 299, 304, 306-7, 333, 356, 453, 499

–H–

Hale, Maj. Gen. Willis H., 463

Hamilton Fld., 1, 13, 15, 36, 174-75, 177-78, 180-82, 186, 188, 193, 196, 208, 212, 576n

Handy, General Thomas T., 550-51

Hanley, Maj. Gen. Thomas J., 65, 207

Hansel, Brig. Gen. Haywood S., 305, 307

Hardin, Brig. Gen. Thomas O., 129-31, 134-35, 139

Harmon, Lt. Gen. Millard F., 182-83, 188, 306, 330

Harmon Fld., Newfoundland, 99, 324

Harriman Mission to Moscow, 8, 26, 66

Harris, Col. Harold R., 63-65, 137

Hawaii, 6, 33, 54, 173-77, 179, 181-82, 199, 241-42, 297-98, 316, 329, 343, 354-56, 450-51, 473-74, 570, 574

Hawaiian Air Depot, 180, 200

Hawaiian Department, 175, 178-80

Hawley, Maj. Gen. Paul, 411

Haynes, Brig. Gen. Caleb V., 118

Heard, Maj. Hamilton, 78

HEATH, 56, 58

Henderson Fld., 354

Hendon, 106-7, 109

Hickam Fld., 174-76, 178, 181, 183-84, 186, 188, 197-98, 200-201, 208, 211, 241, 329, 343, 354, 356, 446

Higgins Aircraft Inc., 23

Hilo, 183-84

Himalayas, 32, 44, 47, 152, 325, 357

Hiroshima, 500

Hoag, Brig. Gen. Earl S., 130-31, 133, 135

Hobby, Col. Oveta Culp, 507, 509-10

Hollandia, 193-95, 284, 525

Holt, Thomas E., 114n

Holzapple, Col. Joseph R., 563

HOME RUN project, 565

Homestead Fld., Florida, 42-45, 48, 50

Honolulu, 174, 177, 346

Honshu, 203, 460, 492, 499

Hoover, Vice-Adm. John H., 499

Hopkins, Harry L., 165

Homey, Capt. H. R., 499-500

House Committee on the Civil Service (Ramspeck Committee), 536

House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, 505, 535

Hudson Bay, 93, 322, 343

Hudsons, 463, 496

Hughes, Maj. Gen. Everett S., 504

Hump, 25, 32, 43, 45-46, 84, 87, 89, 91, 115-48, 150-52, 190, 324-25, 357, 451, 459, 575

Hump Allocation and Control (Humpalco), 147

Hump Regulating Office (Humpreg), 147

Hunter Fld., 214, 558, 560n

Huon peninsula, 282

–I–

Iceland, 75, 88, 93-95, 98-99, 108, 112, 213, 321-23, 343-44, 347-48, 361, 447

Ie Shima, 203-4

Imphal, 134, 209, 358

India, 13n, 24-25, 32, 43-44, 46-47, 54, 56-57, 73-74, 83-84, 86-87, 89-91, 116-17, 119-21, 123, 125-26, 128, 130, 135, 141, 145-48, 150, 189, 206, 216, 244-45, 299, 302-3, 312, 317, 320, 324-26, 349-50, 356, 358-60, 448, 450, 453, 455, 461, 469, 473, 478, 498, 500, 521-22, 554, 555n

India-Burma Division, ATC, 45, 114n, 136, 139-50, 169, 172

India-Burma Sector, AAF, CBI, 132, 139, 149, 467

India-Burma Theater, 147, 574n

India-China Division, ATC, 200, 202, 213, 459, 575

India-China Ferry Command, 122

India-China route, 116, 118, 120-22, 134, 136, 140, 142-43, 145-46, 150-51

India-China Wing, ATC, 15, 16n, 24, 87, 89, 116, 121-26, 128-37, 186, 192, 209, 325, 448, 467

Indian Ocean, 54, 489, 492

Information and Education Section, 471-72

Iran, 47, 349, 465

Ireland, Col. Ray W., 137, 208

Istanbul, 86, 108

Italy, 83-84, 90, 253-54, 256-58, 260-62, 264-65, 327, 360, 450, 455, 463, 470-71, 538, 554-55, 555n, 571

Iwo Jima, 211, 307, 333, 356, 492, 500

–J–

Jackson’s Drome, 187, 278

Japan, 47, 114-16, 122, 133-35, 141, 149, 151, 153-54, 156, 170, 173-74, 176, 196-97, 200-201, 203, 209, 215-17, 224, 226, 242, 276, 278-80, 283-87, 289-95, 298, 301, 304-7, 312, 324-26, 329-30, 333, 338, 350, 355-56, 402, 452, 456, 461, 472, 482, 488, 494, 498-500, 526, 545, 549, 553, 555, 558, 564-66, 569, 572, 574, 581

Java, 174, 286, 457

Jefferson Barracks, 244, 434, 510

Jensen, Lt. Col. Albert W., 559

John Rodgers Airport, 197-98, 226

Johnson, Lt. Robert L., 85

Johnson, Maj. Thomas E., 68

Johnston Island, 196, 226

Joint Administrative Committee, 479-80

Joint Airways Communication System, Pacific (JACSPAC), 356

Joint Army-Navy Air Transport Committee (JANATC), 18-19

Joint Army-Navy-Alaskan Aircraft Control Committee, 351

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 18, 317, 319, 326, 379, 480, 499, 557n

Joint Meteorological Committee, 317

Joint War Plans Committee (JWPC), 557n

Jones, Maj. Isaac H., 387

Jorhat, 122, 124-25, 128, 140-41

JU-88, 78

–K–

Kamikaze, 289

Karachi, 46-48, 53, 73-74, 83, 86, 115-16, 118-19, 124, 127, 148, 150, 206, 349, 357, 359, 555n

Kauch, Brig. Gen. Robert, 84

Keesler Fld., 438, 498

Keflavik, 93, 98

Kemp, Lt. Col. Philip G., 51

Kenney, Lt. Gen. George C., 179, 182, 189-93, 195, 201, 277-80, 284, 293, 329, 332, 354, 447, 459, 464, 525

Kenya, 55, 73, 263

Kharagpur, 147, 302

Khartoum, 11, 46-48, 53, 73, 357-58, 360

Kight, Col. Richard T., 121

King, Fleet Admiral Ernest J., 495

Kingcobra. See P-63

Kiriwina Island, 283, 355

Kiska, 293-95, 330, 350

KIT project, 66, 70

Korean War, 151, 494

Krueger, Gen. Walter, 290

Kunming, 86, 114-15, 119, 122, 127, 133-35, 138-39, 142, 148-49, 324, 349, 357, 4-47, 473

Kuril Islands, 351, 460

Kurmitola airfield, 42, 150

Kuter, Maj. Gen. Laurence S., 191, 581

Kwajalein, 196, 198, 211, 226, 298-99, 447-48

Kweilin, 135-36

–L–

L-5, 463, 480

Labor Department, U.S., 548

Labrador, 75, 93-94, 207

Labrador-Greenland-Iceland route. See North Atlantic route

Ladd Rd., 151, 153, 155, 159, 162-63, 166, 330, 344

Lae, 194, 280, 312

Lagens, 87-89, 102-3, 105, 222, 322

Lagos, 46, 75

Lamont, Capt. Rodney S., 67

Lampedusa, 254

Lancasters, 493

Langley Fld., 239, 241, 341, 576

Laredo Central School for Flexible Gunners, 439

La Senia, 71, 249

LB-30, 26, 29, 175, 177, 179, 201

Le Bourget Fld., 270

Ledo, 134, 300

Ledo Road, 299-302. See also Stilwell Road

LeMay, Maj. Gen. Curtis E., 474

Lend-Lease, 7, 21, 36, 46-47, 51, 53-55, 93, 153-54, 159, 165, 169, 172, 349

Leopoldville, 55, 73, 349

Leuchars, 110, 112

Leyte, 194-97, 211, 289-92, 356, 455, 525

Liberator. See B-24

Liberator Express. See C-87

Liberia, 64-65, 72, 75

Liberty ships, 151

Libya, 448, 554n

Lingling: 135, 450

Link-trainer instructors and training, 67, 517, 525, 532

Littoria Airport (Roma Littoria), 85, 262

Liuchow, 135-36, 150

Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 26, 55

London, 97, 106, 109, 111, 346, 471

Long Beach, 10n

Loran equipment, 560

Los Negros, 193, 197

Louisville, 23, 207

Love, Mrs. Nancy H., 31, 529

Love, Col. Robert M., 98, 190-92

Love and Fear of Flying, The, 415

Lower Solomons, 448

LST (landing ship, tank), 267, 285-87

Luftwaffe, 404, 427, 457

Luliang, 138, 145-47

Luzon, 7, 173, 194, 290-92, 356

Lyster, Brig. Gen. Theodore C., 372, 387

Lytle, Capt. Austin F., 183

–M–

MacArthur, General of the Army Douglas, 175, 187, 191, 193, 201, 277, 329, 331

Madrid, 108-9

Makin Island, 298, 455, 538

Malraux, Andre, 370

Malta, 253

Manchuria, 135

Manila, 195-96, 201, 203-4, 211, 226, 292, 356, 500, 525-26

Map Chart Division, 510

Mariana islands, 196-97, 201, 211, 226, 304, 354-55, 422, 474, 482, 494, 499, 574

Marine Corps, U.S., 295, 321, 329, 421, 500, 504, 508, 535

Maritime Commission, US., 479

Markham Valley, 281

Marrakech, 72-83, 86, 88, 97-98, 102, 213, 359

Marseille, 85, 108-9, 221

Marshall, General of the Army George C., 121, 125, 200, 225, 505, 509, 551, 581

Marshall Islands, 196, 354-55

Mars Task Force, 149

Martin, Glenn L., Co., 21, 55

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 313-14

Materiel Command, 577

Materiel Division, OCAC, 4

Materiel Division Equipment Laboratory, 485

Mather Fld., 197, 226

MATTERHORN, 136-37, 302

Maxwell, Maj. Gen. Russell L., 56

Maxwell Fld., 383, 579

Mayo, Col. George, 244, 273, 293

McCormick, Brig. Gen. J. H., 550

McMakin, John A., 177

Me-109, 461

Medical Corps and Department, 210, 538

Medical supply platoons, 217

Mediterranean, 73-74, 76, 84-86, 109, 253, 326-27, 362, 418, 449-50, 455-56, 461-62, 473, 477, 497-98, 554

Mediterranean Air Command, 81

Mediterranean Air Transport Service (MATS), 81-84, 90

Mediterranean Allied Air Force (MAAF), 262, 463, 554n, 572-73

Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), 85, 91, 97, 102-4, 212-13, 215-16, 220, 252, 266, 358, 395, 402, 419, 422, 428, 462, 470, 520-22, 545, 555, 558-59, 562n, 563, 565-66, 572-73

Meeks Fld., 83, 98-99, 113

Melbourne, 174, 179, 191, 447

Meloy, Brig. Gen. Vincent J., 130

Mercury, 206

Meterological Section, OCAC, 316

Metfield, 110, 112

Meuse-Argonne offensive, World War I, 239

Mexico, 338

Miami, 11, 25, 27, 42-43, 47-50, 58-61, 86, 89, 129, 144, 217, 221-22, 225, 323, 346, 350

Miami Beach, 434, 436, 551

Miami-Natal route, 59

Mica, 206

Middle Atlantic route, 86-91

Middle East, 4, 8, 28, 33, 42, 46-47, 53-59, 66, 73, 75, 79-80, 82-83, 85-87, 89-90, 118-19, 173, 320-21, 324, 327, 349-50, 360, 450, 456, 461

Middle East Air Force, 58

Middletown Air Depot, 4

Midway, Battle of, 34, 179, 241

Midway Islands, 173, 176

Midwest Sector, 10n

Military Academy, U.S., 381

Military air evacuation squadrons, 208

Military Air Transport Service (MATS), 114n, 226

Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), 407-8, 556, 569

Millard, Capt. H. Ray, 177-79

Milne Bay, 194, 350

Mindanao, 193, 259, 292

Mindoro, 290-91

Minneapolis, 164, 171

Misamari, 130, 141

Mission TEN, 90

Mission ELEVEN, 80

Mission SEVENTEEN, 91

MISSION 75, 201-4

Mitchel Fld., 210, 376, 576

Mitchell. See B-25

Moffat, Col. R. C., 581

Mohanbaxi, 122-23, 125, 141

Monsoon, 116, 118, 122, 127, 133, 301, 448

Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard, 55

“Morale Board,” 461

Morocco, 72, 75, 81, 83, 97, 213, 248-51, 418

Morotai, 287-88, 455

Morrison Fld., 10, 32-34, 48-49, 57, 65-67, 71, 74, 118, 144, 176, 200, 225, 323, 446

Moscow, 8, 28, 66, 112, 167

Mosley, Col. Thomas L., 9, 157-58, 161

Mosquitoes (aircraft), 332

Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 133, 518

MTOUSA, 559

Murphy, Lt. Thomas M., 63-64

Mustang. See P-51

Myitkyina, 114-15, 118, 133-35, 138, 149, 301

–N–

Nadzab, 186-88, 191-92, 194-96, 281-82, 284, 404

Naiden, Brig. Gen. Earl L., 117-19

Nairobi, 55, 349

Nandi, 174, 178, 183, 297, 350

Nanning, 135, 149

Naples, 80, 84-85, 109, 259, 265, 360, 450, 471

Narsarssuak, 93, 321

Nashville, 10n, 385

Nashville Sector, ACFC, 10n

Natal, 25, 27, 35, 43, 46-47, 49-51, 58-60, 65, 68, 72, 217, 219, 221-23, 225, 349, 446

National Association of Air Forces Women, 540

National Resources Planning Board, 548-49

Naval Academy, U.S., 381

Naval Air Transport Service (NATS), 18, 201, 206, 356

Naval Construction Battalions. See Seabees

Navy, U.S., 18, 21-22, 39, 156, 175-77, 183-84, 203, 211, 217, 245, 267, 276, 282-83, 288, 293, 296-99, 306, 314, 317, 323, 326, 329-31, 333-35, 343-44, 350-52, 354, 356, 366, 389, 391, 412, 421, 451, 463, 477-87, 490, 492, 495, 498-500, 504, 508, 548, 572

Navy Department, 337

Near East, 46, 359

Negro, 263, 283, 296, 299, 473-74

Negro Wacs, 519

Netherlands East Indies, 176, 354

New Caledonia, 174, 178, 183, 185, 188, 296-97, 307, 329, 350, 354

New Delhi, 131-32, 139

Newfoundland, 7, 82, 86, 88-89, 93, 96n, 98-99, 102-3, 106, 207, 321-24, 343, 361

New Guinea, 7, 45, 173, 178, 183, 186-87, 190, 193-94, 196, 202, 246, 273, 277-79, 281, 283, 291, 312, 331, 350, 355, 448, 452, 473, 499, 521, 525-26

New Hebrides Islands, 183, 354, 448, 452

Newman, Brig. Gen. James B., Jr., 266, 268-69, 272

New York, 20, 57, 90, 92, 98, 105, 220, 447, 507, 566n

New York University, 314

New Zealand, 183, 317, 329, 343, 419, 473

Nichols Fld., 202, 211, 292-93

Nielson Fld., 202

Nigeria, 64, 74-75

Nimitz, Fleet Admiral Chester W., 197, 201, 304, 499-500

Nome, 154-55, 158, 162-63, 166, 330, 453

Norden bombsight, 560

Normandy, 104, 210-11, 248, 268-69, 274, 328, 361-452, 453

Norseman. See C-64

North Africa, 15, 50, 58, 63-66, 68-80, 82-91, 96-98, 102, 246, 161, 189, 215, 244-46, 248, 250-52, 254, 257, 265, 280n, 323, 326-27, 349, 359-60, 449, 458-60, 470, 478, 506, 521

North African Division, ATC, 85, 90-91, 202, 2115-19, 225, 575

North African Sector, Africa-Middle East Wing, ATC, 73-74, 83

North African Service Command, 81

North African Theater of Operations, USA (NATOUSA), 82-83, 86, 477, 521-22

North African Wing, ATC, 49, 74, 83, 90, 130

North Atlantic, 10-11, 27, 34, 50, 64, 66, 74-75, 79, 92-105, 116, 172, 343, 345, 347-48, 350, 361, 421, 447, 483, 498

North Atlantic Division, ATC, 112-13, 202, 214, 219-20, 575

North Atlantic Sector, ACFC, 10n

North Atlantic Wing, ATC, 13, 88, 94, 98, 100-101

North Burma, 114, 124

North Burma Air Task Force, 149

Northeast Air Lines, 11, 226

Northeast Sector, ACFC, 10n

North Fld., 306-7

North Pacific Area, 276, 351, 460

North Sea, 463, 478, 481, 483, 496, 498

Northway Air Base, 160, 162-64, 330

Northwest Africa, 317, 327, 358-61, 450

Northwest African Air Forces (NAAF), 252, 257, 464

NAAF Coastal Command, 498

Northwest Airlines, Inc., 11, 44, 124, 156-58, 160-62, 171, 351

Northwest Division Engineers, 162-63

Northwest Fld., 306-7

Northwest Sector, ACFC, 10n

Noumea, 174, 296, 329-30

Nowland, Brig. Gen. Bob E., 137, 169

–O–

OA-10A, 497

Oahu, 196-97, 201, 208, 212, 226, 241, 329

Occupation Air Force (OAF), 565

Oceanic Air Traffic Center (OATC), 356

Office, Chief of Air Corps (OCAC), 318, 528

Office of Censorship, 337

Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 428

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 326

Office of War Mobilization, 509

Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 570

Ogden Air Depot, 156, 166

Okinawa, 196, 201-4, 226, 277, 293, 307-8, 356, 453, 455, 500, 564-65, 573

Old, Brig. Gen. William D., 137-38, 301

Olds, Maj. Gen. Robert, 8-9, 12n, 54, 87, 118

Olmsted Fld., 576n

OMAHA beach, 108, 267

Operation REUNION, 463

Operational Training Unit (OTU), 41-45, 70, 393, 445

Operations, Commitments, and Requirements (OC&R), 315, 319, 346, 479, 555

Operations Division, War Department General Staff (OPD), 125, 162, 199, 216-17, 244, 550

Oran, 63-67, 69-71, 73-74, 77, 81-82, 248-50, 359

Ordnance Department, 266, 313

ORIENT project, 47

Orlando Army Air Base, 334, 576n, 578-79

Orly, 217, 220, 270, 362

Ouakam Fld., 75

OVERLORD, 257, 265-67, 446

Overseas Replacement Depots, 445-46

Owens, Brig. Gen. Ray L., 225

Oxford University, 471

–P–

P-36, 205

P-38, 26, 51, 75-76, 92, 99, 183, 205, 279, 327, 332, 444, 451, 462, 532

P-39, 60, 75, 154, 159, 165, 532

P-40, 56-57, 75, 154, 159, 205, 254, 298, 532, 554

P-47, 99-100, 304, 461, 492, 554, 571

P-51, 333, 461-63, 483, 492, 571

P-61, 333

P-63, 165-68, 532

P-80, 571

Pacific Air Command, 574

Pacific Air Service Command, 574

Pacific Airways Communications Area (PACA), 354-55

Pacific Division, ATC, 45, 172, 188, 192, 194, 199-200, 202, 211, 226, 575

Pacific Ocean Area (POA), 304, 333, 345, 395, 419, 422, 446, 449-51, 459, 462, 472-75, 477, 479-81, 483, 486, 491, 493, 495, 498-500, 520, 545, 549, 555, 557-59, 561-562, 565-66, 574

Pacific Sector, ACFC, 11, 175-77

Pacific Wing, ATC, 15, 175, 181, 184-88, 192, 198-99

Packet. See C-82

Palermo, 256, 360

Palestine, 56-57

Panair do Brasil, 50, 320

Panama, 34, 320

Panama Canal Zone, 4, 320, 566n, 580

Pan American Air Ferries (PAAF), 11, 36, 42-43, 47, 54-55

Pan American Airways-Africa, Ltd., 53, 118

Pan American Airways Co.,

Pan American Airways System, 11, 21, 26-27, 43, 46-48, 50, 53-54, 59, 89, 97, 176, 178, 219, 241n, 320, 324, 343, 349, 351, 358, 485

Pantelleria, 253

PANTHER flight, 67, 69

Papua, 355, 431, 448

Paris, 85, 104-5, 108-10, 189, 220, 270, 272, 362, 473

Parker, 2nd Lt. James K., 68

Parnamirirn Fld., 219, 221

Patterson, Under Secretary of War Robert P., 107

Patterson Fld., Iceland, 93, 313

Patterson Fld., Ohio, 332, 370

Patton, General George S., 108

PBM, 463

PBY, 76, 284, 463, 480, 495, 498-99

Pearl Harbor, 4, 8, 11, 20-23, 26-30, 32, 46, 50, 54, 66, 87, 173-74, 240, 241n, 242, 245, 312, 314, 316, 329-30, 336, 343, 379, 384, 395, 421, 447, 486, 528

Pears, Col. Richard W., 188, 193

Pentagon, 131, 479, 557

Permanent Joint Board of Defense, Canada-United States, 157, 162-63

Pershing, General of the Armies John J., 547

Persian Gulf, 55, 154

Persian Gulf Command, 220

Personnel Distribution Command (PDC), 518, 551, 567-68, 575

Philippine Islands, 6, 47, 173, 197, 199, 241-42, 276-77, 284, 286-88, 290, 292, 297, 300, 307, 316, 326, 329, 343, 354-55, 447, 457, 473, 525, 574

Photography, AAF Director of, 76

PINETREE, 397, 436

Ping, Lt. Robert J., 175

PIPELINE project, 91, 144

Pisa, 221, 265

Pitoe, 287-88

Plaines des Gaiacs, 78-80, 183, 296

Ploesti, 263, 458, 460

Pogue, L. W., 18

Pointe-Noire, 55, 349

Poltava, 80, 86

POM (preparation for overseas movement), 563

Pomigliano Airport, 84, 221

Ponte Olivo, 255-56

Ponton de Acre, Col. Leroy, 156-58

Portal, ACM Sir Charles F. A., 347

Porter, Capt. John L. (“Blackie”), 132

Port Lyautey, 75, 79, 216, 221, 248

Port Moresby, 173, 182, 185-88, 191, 195-96, 277-80, 350, 355, 452

Port of Spain, 218

Prentiss, Brig. Gen. Paul H., 187

Presque Isle, 19, 103, 105, 113, 222, 322, 446

Prestwick, 11, 78-79, 89, 93, 96-100, 105-7, 109, 210-11, 217, 221, 323, 347, 361

Price, Col. John M., 219

Production line maintenance (PLM), 149-41

Project Planning Division, 549-50

Project 7, 126

Project 7-A, 128

Project 8, 130

PROJECT 32, 33-35, 176

PROJECT 50, 35, 42

Proving Ground Command, 575

PT boats, 463

PT-13, 571

Puerto Rico, 49, 222, 320, 570

PURPLE project, 200, 225

–Q–

Quartermaster Corps, 495

Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, 158

Quartz crystals, 206

Quebec, 93, 321-22, 343

Queen Mary, 447

Quonset, 56

R-6, 494

R-2000 engines, 144

Randolph Fld., 376

Ranger, 56, 75, 114, 145

Rangoon, 574n

Rawinsonde, 336

Recife, 51, 53

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 214

Redistribution Center, AAF, 225, 551

Redistribution Stations, 551

Regiments (numbered):

19th Engineer Combat, 255

21st Engineers (Aviation), 239, 241, 248-49, 251, 253, 260-61

21st Engineers (General Service) , 239

38th Engineer Combat, 31, 52

Regions (numbered):

1st AACS, 341

2nd AACS, 341

3rd AACS, 341

4th AACS, 342

6th AACS, 345

6th Weather, 320

7th AACS, 345, 354

7th Weather, 331

9th Weather, 317

10th Weather, 317, 325

11th Weather, 317, 331

10th AACS, 354

24th AACS, 361

Reichers, Lt. Col. Louis T., 66-70

Reinartz, Brig. Gen. Eugen G., 395

Replacement Training Unit (RTU), 393, 445

Republic Aviation Corp., 99

Reykjavik, 98, 321, 343

Rickenbacker, Capt. Eddie, 491

Ricks, Col. Earl T., 203

Rio de Oro, 64, 72

Roberts Fld., 51, 64-65, 72, 74, 76

Robinson, Col. W. E., 307

Robot bomb. See

“Rocket Run,” 90

Rogers, Representative Edith Nourse, 505

Rome, 85, 108-9, 262

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 47, 50, 55-56

Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 8, 21, 27, 32, 91, 114, 124-25, 131, 133, 165, 186, 410

Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D., 528

ROOSTER, 149

Rotenone, 206

Royal Air Force (RAF), 55, 58, 77-78, 81, 95-96, 110, 118, 176, 240, 246, 323, 328, 347, 378, 396, 401, 463, 478, 486, 488-89, 493, 496, 500, 573n

RAF Coastal Command, 496

RAF Ferry Command, 95-96, 175

RAF Fighter Command, 96, 496

RAF Transport Command, 84

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), 178, 190, 498

RAAF Meteorological Service, 329

Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), 96, 156, 163, 351

Royal Engineers, 263

Royal Navy (British), 257, 478, 496, 498

Royal New Zealand Air Force, 174

R (Redeployment) Day, 565

RR&R (Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Recuperation) , 214, 558, 560, 563

Rubber, 7, 206

Rudenko, Gen. Leonid G., 169

Russia. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)

Russian, 46-47, 55, 204, 317, 325, 331, 333

Ryan, Brig. Gen. William O., 181, 186, 192, 202

Ryukyu Islands, 197, 203

–S–

“Sacktime Line,” 183

Sacramento, 182, 197, 344

Sacramento Air Depot, 4, 166

Sahara, 64-65, 69, 71, 77, 250

Saidor, 283, 285

St. Eval, 78-79

Sr. Joseph, 42, 44

St.-Laurent-sur-Mer, 267, 362

St.-Lo, 362

St. Mawgan, 79-80, 85, 96, 105-7, 109

St.-Mihiel offensive, World War I, 239

Saipan, 196-98, 211-12, 299, 304-6, 333, 356, 450, 466, 499

Salazar, Dr. A. de O., 87-88

Salerno, 256-59

Salween River, 115, 125, 134

San Antonio, 225, 344, 385, 551

San Antonio Air Depot, 4

San Diego, 182

San Francisco, 182, 355-56, 446

San Rafael, 34, 174

Santa Ana, 385, 551

Santa Monica, xo, 551

Sardinia, 84-85, 263, 360, 450

Scandinavia, 108, 110-12, 311

Schilling, Col. Karl B., 269

School of Air Evacuation, 537

Schweinfurt, 312

Scotland, 7-8, 28, 88-89, 93, 96, 110, 247, 323, 347

Scott Fld., 314, 441, 510

Seabees (Naval Construction Battalions), 277, 284, 287-88, 290, 296-98, 306-7

Seattle, 10n, 160, 171, 294, 574

Secretary of the Navy, 480, 509, 570

Secretary of War, 21, 378, 505, 509, 527, 548-49, 570

Senate, U.S., 548

Service pilot, 30

Services of Supply (SOS), 14, 160, 247, 252, 277, 299, 371, 409, 419, 451

Sevareid, Eric, 132

“Sferics,” 336

Shanghai, 147, 149-50

SHARK flight, 67-69

Shemya, 448

Sheppard Fld., 436

Siberia, 55, 153-55, 325, 331n

Sicily, 16, 83-85, 253-54, 256-58, 263-64, 299, 327, 339, 360, 450, 538, 554

Sierra Leone, 64, 263

Signal Corps, 52, 70, 156, 266, 313, 316, 326, 334-35, 339, 345, 376-77

Silk, 147, 206

Sinclair, Frank D., 120

Singapore, 47, 173

Sioux Falls Army Air Fld., 564

Skelly, Maj. Harold, 78

Skymaster. See C-54

Smith, Brig. Gen. Cyrus R., 12, 20, 25, 72, 81-84, 86, 120, 129, 132-33, 142

Smith, Col. Robert J., 15

Smyser, Col. Rudolph E., Jr., 240, 265, 269

“Snowball,” 20n, 44, 103

Society Islands, 183

Sofia, 86, 108-9

Solomon Islands, 6, 278, 329, 332-33, 354-55, 452, 457, 499

Somervell, Gen. Brehon B., 121, 160, 549

SONNIE, 110-12

Sookerating, 122-23, 125, 134, 141

Soong, Dr. T. V., 118

Southampton Island, 93-94

South Atlantic-Central African route, 86

South Atlantic Division, ATC, 218-19, 221, 223, 225, 575

South Atlantic route, 10, 34-35, 46n, 47, 50-52, 55, 57-59, 62, 64-66, 72, 74-75, 78, 90, 94, 97, 99, 102, 126, 342, 349, 359

South Atlantic Sector, ACFC, 11, 28

South Atlantic Wing, ATC, 13, 49-50, 53, 65

Southeast Asia, 325-26, 358

Southeast Asia Command, 358

Southern France, 258, 360

South Pacific Area, 276, 295-97, 317, 329, 345, 350, 352, 354-55, 432, 448, 458, 499

South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command (SCAT), 183, 193

South Pacific Command (SOPAC), 183

South Pacific Wing, ATC, 13, 15, 177-78

Southwest Pacific, 8, 28, 32, 45, 47, 173, 175, 276, 284, 287-88, 293, 298, 329, 332, 350, 352, 355, 420n, 422, 467-68, 472, 481, 494, 498, 522, 526

Southwest. Pacific Wing, ATC, 192-96, 199, 202, 317

Soviet Military Mission in Alaska, 155, 159, 165-68

Soviet Purchasing Commission, 169

Soviet Union. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)

Spaatz, Gen. Carl, 81, 84, 97, 109, 201, 252-53, 328, 383, 396, 462

Spain, 63-64, 72

SPARS, 508, 535

Special Force Headquarters, OSS, 111

Special Planning Division, 549-51

Special Projects Office (SPO), 549-5, 555, 579

Special Staff, ASF, 375

Special Staff, War Department, 550

Sperry bombsight, 560

Spitfire, 75, 256-57, 260, 264, 426, 443, 461, 496

Spokane Air Depot, 166

Squadrons (numbered):

1st Air Combat Control Sq., Amphibious, 560n

1st Composite, 560n

1st Emergency Rescue, 488, 554n, 566n

1st Weather Reconnaissance Sq., Air Route (Medium), 332

2nd Combat Cargo, 145

2nd Emergency Rescue, 499

2nd Weather Reconnaissance Sq. (Medium), 333

3rd Combat Cargo, 145

3rd Emergency Rescue, 499

3rd Tow-Target, 534

3rd Weather Reconnaissance Sq. (Heavy), 333

4th Emergency.Rescue, 499-500

4th Troop Carrier, 554

4th Weather Reconnaissance, 333

5th Army Communications, 354-55

5th Emergency Rescue, 488, 497, 500

5th Weather, 316, 329

6th Emergency Rescue, 500

6th Weather, 316

7th AACS, 355

7th Emergency Rescue, 498, 500

7th Weather, 316, 329, 331-33

8th Weather, 316

9th Weather, 317

10th AACS, 349-56

10th Ferrying, 15, 35

10th Weather, 324

11th Bomb. Sq. (M), 455

11th Weather, 331

12th Weather, 317, 326-27

13th AACS, 358-60

13th Weather, 327

14th AACS, 358-59

14th Photo Reconnaissance, 426

15th Weather, 329, 332

16th Weather, 331

17th Repair, 465

17th Weather, 329-33

18th AACS, 359-60

18th Weather, 324, 328

19th AACS, 359

19th Troop Carrier, 178

19th Weather, 34, 327

20th AACS, 355

21st Reconnaissance, 321

21st Weather, 328

24th AACS, 361

25th AACS, 349, 357

26th Ferrying, 34

26th Weather, 334

27th Ferrying, 34

28th Ferrying, 34

30th Weather Reconnaissance, 101

33rd Fighter, 343

55th Reconnaissance Sq. (VLR), Weather, 333

58th AACS, 360

69th Bomb., 176

70th Bomb., 176

77th Bomb. Sq. (M), 458

34th Fighter, 458

322nd Troop Carrier, 48

512th Bomb., 458-59

655th Bomb. Sq. (H), 333

Stalin, Marshal Joseph, 153

Starmann Fld., 298

Stars and Stripes, 455, 471

State Department, U.S., 85, 87, 107

“Station Block Control,” 222

Stephenson, Capt. Arthur W., 178

Stephenville, 99, 103, 105, 217

Stilwell, Gen. Joseph W., 118-19, 121-25, 130, 134-35, 192

Stilwell Road, 299

Stimson, Secretary of War H. L., 436, 505

Stockholm, 108-13

Stout Fld., 246

Stowell, Brig. Gen. James S., 219

Strategic Air Command (SAC), 564, 576-77

Stratemeyer, Lt. Gen. George E., 130-31, 133, 137, 139, 143-44, 467-68

Stratoliner. See C-75

Streett, Maj. Gen. St. Clair, 569

Suez, 450

SUNSET project, 226

“Superdumbo,” 463, 494, 500

Superfortress. See B-29

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 108

Sutherland, Lt. Gen. Richard K., 291, 193

Sverdrup, Maj. Gen. Leif J., 292

Sweden, 110-12

Sweetwater, 531, 536

Sydney, 174, 178, 182-83, 421

–T–

Tacloban, 195, 289, 290, 455

Tactical Air Command (TAC), 576-77

Tafaraoui Fld., 71, 73

TAG (The Adjutant General, U.S. Army), 316, 467, 508

Tanacross Air Base, 162-64

Tantalite, 206

Tarawa, 196-98, 211, 448, 473, 538

TBF, 299

Tebessa, 250, 254

Technical School Squadrons, 434

Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur, 8,, 83-84, 253

Tehran, 11, 46-47, 80

Terceira, 87, 102

Tezgaon, 117, 141-42, 150

Tezpur, 128, 141, 145

Thelepte, 250, 449, 452

34th Subdepot, 167-68

36th St. Airport, Miami, 49, 60

TIGER flight, 67-69

Tillman, Capt. John M., 67, 69-70

Tin, 7, 147, 206

Tindouf Fld., 64, 72-73, 77

Tinian, 306, 455

Tokyo, 203, 356, 456, 458, 463, 492

Tompkins, Maj. Gen. William F., 549-50

Tontouta Airport, 174, 178, 413-94, 296

TORCH, 65, 77, 445, 450

Townsville, 174, 182, 185-86, 188, 194, 196

Tow Target Section, 533

Transatlantic Sector, ACFC, 11, 15

TRANSCON project, 225-26

Transcontinental and Western Air, 11, 21, 47, 78, 83, 89, 94, 97-98, 102-3, 124, 219, 226

Trans-India Ferrying Command, Transportation, SOS, 15

Transport Division, ATC, 44

Transport groups, 48

“Transport Transition Training Program,” 40-41

TRIDENT, 98, 125

Trinidad, 47, 50, 217-18, 323, 447

Tripoli, 251

Troop Carrier Command, 14, 246

Truax Fld., 438

Truesdell, Lt. Col. Karl, Jr., 175

Truk, 333, 460

Tsili Tsili, 280-82

Tungsten, 7, 147, 206

Tunis, 73, 84, 90

Tunisia, 55, 76-77, 81, 249-53, 359, 404, 453, 457

Tunner, Brig. Gen. William H., 9, 15, 37, 138-44, 150, 157, 169

Turkey, 85-86

Tutuila, 183-84

Twining, Lt. Gen. Nathan F., 182, 491, 499

“272 Plan,” 144-45

Typhoon, 305, 307

–U–

Umnak Island, 242-43, 294, 330, 453

Unger, Col. Charles H., 192

Union of South Africa, 263

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), 47, 55, 58, 86, 93, 111, 147, 153-55, 159-61, 165-66, 169-70, 333, 349, 360, 504, 581

United Air Lines, 11, 160, 171, 180, 182-83, 186-88, 198-99, 202, 226

United Kingdom. See Britain

United Nations, 21, 151

United Service Organizations, 436, 471-72, 540

United States Air Force (USAF), 429, 582

USAFE (United States Air Force in Europe), 569-70, 573

U.S. Armed Forces Institute, 471

U.S. Army Air Forces, China, 574

U.S. Army Forces in the Pacific, 201

U.S. Army Forces in South America, 53

U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area (USAFISPA), 330

U.S. Army West African Mission, 72

U.S. Strategic Air Force in Europe, 80, 109, 111, 272, 328, 462, 526, 558, 572-73

United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USASTAF), 574

United States-U.S.S.R. protocols, 166, 170

Units (numbered):

1st Operational Training, 42, 44

2nd Operational Training, 42, 44

3rd Operational Training, 44

4th Operational Training, 45

5th Operational Training, 45

6th Operational Training, 45

1269th Base, 85

University of California at Los Angeles, 314

University of Chicago, 314

Upper Assam, 115, 118, 122

USASTAF (U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces), 454, 526

UTAH beach, 267

–V–

V-1 missile, 103

Valley, 96, 103, 106, 213

VARSITY, 273

V-E Day, 91, 112, 205, 212, 488, 521, 526-27, 553, 558, 565-66, 569

Veterans Administration, 548

Vichy Africa, 63, 72

Vichy French, 54, 64, 71

Vienna, 108, 462

Virgin Islands, 320, 570

V-J Day, 19, 148, 150, 344, 395, 407, 437, 494, 553, 566-67, 578

Vladivostok, 147, 204

–W–

Waco Aircraft Co., 22

Wakde, 284, 452

Wake Island, 173

Wales, 96, 213

Waller Fld., 52, 217-19, 225, 323

Walruses, 496

Walsh, Maj. Gen. Robert L., 53, 65

Walter Reed General Hospital, 538

War Department, U.S., 6, 13-14, 17-18, 21, 46, 48, 54, 61, 81-82, 107, 125, 231, 138, 163, 173, 181, 192, 207, 216, 226, 245, 253, 266, 272, 313, 319, 337, 346, 374-77, 385, 409-11, 429, 451, 466, 468, 475, 503-5, 506n, 508, 510-11, 513-15, 517, 519-20, 526, 528, 535, 546, 548-49, 552, 563, 565, 567-68, 580-81

War Manpower Commission, 509, 548

War Production Board (WPB), 206

“War-weary pilots,” 36

Warwicks, 492-93

Washington, D.C., 9, 15, 20, 47, 53, 65, 71, 78-79, 94-95, 98, 105-6, 117-18, 122, 124, 128, 131-32, 142-43, 161, 169, 179, 184-85, 190, 202, 212, 220, 222, 227, 244, 250, 252, 272, 275, 291, 293, 302, 316, 319-20, 341-42, 355, 377, 467, 479-80, 489, 513, 547

Watson Lake, 162

Wavell, General Sir Archibald, 123

Weather Bureau, U.S., 313-14, 317, 326, 330, 334, 337

Weather Division, 319-20

Weather Section, 319

Webb, Lt. Henry J., 85

Wedemeyer, Lt. Gen. Albert C., 147

West Bengal, 140, 147

West Coast Wing, ATC, 15, 181, 192

Western Airlines, 11, 44, 156

Western Defense Command, 157, 160, 467

Western Division, Ferrying Command, 10

Western Flying Training Command, 533

Westover Fld., 246, 248

West Palm Beach, 13, 48-49, 225

Wewak, 280, 461

Wheeler, Lt. Gen. Raymond A., 125

Wheeler Fld., 329

WHEN AND WHERE project, 111-12

White, Lt. Col. Robert B., 140

Whitehead, Lt. Gen. Ennis C., 284

Whitehorse, 152, 160, 162, 351

White House, 570

WHITE project, 213, 215-17, 226, 565

Whitney-Straight, Air Commodore, 84

Wideawake Fld., 52

Williamtown, 174, 178

Willkie, Wendell, 121

Wilmer, Col. W. H., 376

Wilmington, 76, 89, 220, 222

Windsor Locks, 214, 560

Wingate, Brig. Orde C., 301

Wings (numbered) :

1st Bomb., 396

2nd AACS, 360

2nd Bomb., 79

4th AACS, 357

5th AACS, 350

5th Bomb., 566n

7th AACS, 355-56

13th Bomb., 561

18th Composite, 343

20th Bomb., 561

21st Bomb., 446

40th Bomb., 574

47th Bomb., 561

50th Transport, 4, 14, 21

51st Troop Carrier, 81

54th Troop Carrier, 187, 203-4

65th Fighter, 497

73rd Bomb., 306

96th Bomb., 561

312th Fighter, 137

314th Bomb., 307

2037th Antisubmarine, 79

Winston-Salem, 319, 479

Wolfe, Maj. Gen. Kenneth B., 302

WOLFE project, 91

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), 31, 528-37, 540

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 505-14

Women’s Army Corps, 506n, 513-27

Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (British), 504

WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force), 507

Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), 31, 529

Women’s Flying Training Detachment, 529

World War I, 239, 311, 368, 372, 376, 384, 386-87, 418, 429, 443, 503-4, 546

Wrens (Women’s Royal Naval Service), 508

Wright Fld., 68, 370, 377, 424, 485-87, 489-90

Wright 2600-11 engine, 67, 70

Wurtsmith, Maj. Gen. Paul B., 280

–Y–

Yale University, 438

Yalta, 91

Yank, 471

Yellow River, 135-36

Yellow Sea, 463

YOKE, 135

Youks-les-Bains, 250, 448

Yunnan, 115, 125, 134-45, 447

Yunnanyi, 115, 130, 134

–Z–

Zeroes, 301

Zimmerman, Col. Don Z., 319

Zone of Interior (ZI), 189, 208, 225, 316, 407-10, 437, 445, 447, 449, 454, 466, 468, 474, 476, 519, 524-25, 555, 557, 561, 565-69, 571, 577, 580