Index
–A–
A-20, 55, 65-71, 74, 76, 154-55, 159, 165
A-30, 55
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 Proving Ground Command, 334, 536, 578-79
AAF School, 578-79
AAF School of Applied Tactics, 395, 518, 532, 535
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
Accra, 49, 51, 58-60, 64-65, 68, 70, 91, 72-75, 77-78, 82-85, 126, 324, 349, 358-60
Adjusted Service Rating (ASR), 422, 553, 556-57, 559, 568n
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Antilles Department, 49
Anzio, 259-62
Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Branch, 578
Arctic Training School, 162
Ardennes, 272-73
Armies (numbered):
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
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
Atkinson Fld., 51-52, 67, 70, 221-23, 323
Atlantic Division, ATC, 575
ATS, 508
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
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
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
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
Beebe, Brig. Gen. Eugene H., 122
Belem, 50, 68, 217, 121-23, 323, 447
Bell Aircraft Corp., 165-67
Belyaev, Maj. Gen. Alexander I., 154-55
Bengal, 138, 142, 150, 302, 358, 448
Bengal, Sea of, 325
Berg, Maj. Walter B., 349
Berlin, 108, 151, 426, 456, 458
Biak, 195-97, 201, 211, 284-86, 291, 356, 448, 452
Big Delta Air Base, 162-64
“Big Week,” 312
Bissell, Maj. Gen. Clayton L., 119, 123
BLACKLIST, 201
“Black Sunday,” 459
Blake, Lt. Col. Gordon, 178
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
Bolling Fld., 11, 15, 35, 316, 340, 349, 557
Bombardment Section, OCAC, 12
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
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
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
Brown, Joe E., 472
Brownsville, 45
Buckley Fld., 440
Budd, Edward G., Manufacturing Co., 22
Buffalo, 167
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-62, 22-23
C-64, 171
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-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 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
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
Casey, Maj. Gen. Hugh J., 277-78
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
Chabua, 115, 118, 122-23, 125, 130-32, 141, 349-50, 357
Chapin, Dr. James P., 53
Charles, Col. Chester, 192
Charleston Army Air Field, 225
Charleville, 174
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
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo, 121-22, 124, 151
Chiang Kai-shek, Mme, 124-25
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 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
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, Gen. Mark W., 103
Class V pilots, 533
Class P pilots, 37
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
VIII Air Force Service, 106, 108, 565
VIII Air Support, 328
VIII Bomber, 99, 397, 399, 488, 490, 497
IX Air Force Service, 270, 574
IX Tactical Air, 269
IX Troop Carrier, 576
XI Air Force Service, 157, 445
XII Air Force Engineer, 258
XII Air Force Service, 70, 248, 252, 257, 454-55
XII Fighter, 70
XII Tactical Air, 573
XIII Air Force Service, 296, 456
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
Corregidor, 242
CRYSTAL II, 93-94, 321-22, 343
Curtiss-Wright Corp., 5, 23-24
CW-20, 24
Cyclone Task Force, 286
–D–
Dakar, 64, 72-77, 82, 85, 102, 215-17, 219, 221, 359
Dakar/Yof, 72
Darlan, Admiral Jean, 72
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
Defense Meteorological Committee, 317
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 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
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
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
Edmonton, 152, 157-60, 162, 166, 169-71, 352
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
Eleusis Fld., 87
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
–F–
F-5, 532
Fairbanks, 152-55, 158-59, 162-63, 165-68, 170-71, 330, 344, 351
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp., 23
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
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 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
Foreign Division, ACFC, 10
Foreign Wing, ACFC, 10, 13, 15, 157
Forrest, Brig. Gen. N. B., 444
Fort Nelson Air Base, 158, 162
Fortress. See B-17
Fort St. John Air Base, 158, 162
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
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
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
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
Goose Bay, 93-94, 99-100, 322, 348, 446
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
Grevenberg, Maj. Marion E., 67-69
Groups (numbered):
1st Air Transport, 4
1st Combat Cargo, 145
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
8th Fighter, 291
11th Bomb. (H), 448
14th Ferrying, 73
15th Airdrome Construction (British), 259
19th Bomb., 33
22nd Service, 180
26th Air Transport, 129
27th Air Transport, 106
31st Fighter, 566
33rd Fighter, 554
34th Bomb. (H), 444
35th Fighter, 566n
40th Bomb. (VH), 446
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
306th Bomb., 401n
316th Troop Carrier, 57
319th Bomb., 74, 561-63, 565-66
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 Department, 175, 178-80
Hawley, Maj. Gen. Paul, 411
Haynes, Brig. Gen. Caleb V., 118
Heard, Maj. Hamilton, 78
Henderson Fld., 354
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
Holt, Thomas E., 114n
Holzapple, Col. Joseph R., 563
HOME RUN project, 565
Homestead Fld., Florida, 42-45, 48, 50
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
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
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
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
Information and Education Section, 471-72
Ireland, Col. Ray W., 137, 208
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–
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
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
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
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
Khartoum, 11, 46-48, 53, 73, 357-58, 360
Kight, Col. Richard T., 121
King, Fleet Admiral Ernest J., 495
Kingcobra. See P-63
Krueger, Gen. Walter, 290
Kunming, 86, 114-15, 119, 122, 127, 133-35, 138-39, 142, 148-49, 324, 349, 357, 4-47, 473
Kuter, Maj. Gen. Laurence S., 191, 581
Kwajalein, 196, 198, 211, 226, 298-99, 447-48
Kweilin, 135-36
–L–
Labor Department, U.S., 548
Labrador-Greenland-Iceland route. See North Atlantic route
Ladd Rd., 151, 153, 155, 159, 162-63, 166, 330, 344
Lagens, 87-89, 102-3, 105, 222, 322
Lamont, Capt. Rodney S., 67
Lampedusa, 254
Lancasters, 493
Langley Fld., 239, 241, 341, 576
Laredo Central School for Flexible Gunners, 439
LB-30, 26, 29, 175, 177, 179, 201
Le Bourget Fld., 270
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
Leyte, 194-97, 211, 289-92, 356, 455, 525
Liberator. See B-24
Liberator Express. See C-87
Liberty ships, 151
Link-trainer instructors and training, 67, 517, 525, 532
Littoria Airport (Roma Littoria), 85, 262
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 26, 55
London, 97, 106, 109, 111, 346, 471
Long Beach, 10n
Loran equipment, 560
Love, Col. Robert M., 98, 190-92
Love and Fear of Flying, The, 415
Lower Solomons, 448
LST (landing ship, tank), 267, 285-87
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
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
Marshall, General of the Army George C., 121, 125, 200, 225, 505, 509, 551, 581
Mars Task Force, 149
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 313-14
Materiel Command, 577
Materiel Division, OCAC, 4
Materiel Division Equipment Laboratory, 485
Maxwell, Maj. Gen. Russell L., 56
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
Meloy, Brig. Gen. Vincent J., 130
Mercury, 206
Meterological Section, OCAC, 316
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-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
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
Mindoro, 290-91
Mission TEN, 90
Mission ELEVEN, 80
Mission SEVENTEEN, 91
Mitchell. See B-25
Moffat, Col. R. C., 581
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
Morrison Fld., 10, 32-34, 48-49, 57, 65-67, 71, 74, 118, 144, 176, 200, 225, 323, 446
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
Nandi, 174, 178, 183, 297, 350
Naples, 80, 84-85, 109, 259, 265, 360, 450, 471
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
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
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
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 Air Task Force, 149
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
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
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
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
ORIENT project, 47
Orlando Army Air Base, 334, 576n, 578-79
Ouakam Fld., 75
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-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
Palestine, 56-57
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
Paris, 85, 104-5, 108-10, 189, 220, 270, 272, 362, 473
Parker, 2nd Lt. James K., 68
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
Permanent Joint Board of Defense, Canada-United States, 157, 162-63
Pershing, General of the Armies John J., 547
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
Ping, Lt. Robert J., 175
Pitoe, 287-88
Plaines des Gaiacs, 78-80, 183, 296
Pogue, L. W., 18
POM (preparation for overseas movement), 563
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
Proving Ground Command, 575
PT boats, 463
PT-13, 571
Puerto Rico, 49, 222, 320, 570
–Q–
Quartermaster Corps, 495
Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, 158
Quartz crystals, 206
Queen Mary, 447
Quonset, 56
R-6, 494
R-2000 engines, 144
Randolph Fld., 376
Rangoon, 574n
Rawinsonde, 336
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
Regions (numbered):
1st AACS, 341
2nd AACS, 341
3rd AACS, 341
4th AACS, 342
6th AACS, 345
6th Weather, 320
7th Weather, 331
9th Weather, 317
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
Rickenbacker, Capt. Eddie, 491
Ricks, Col. Earl T., 203
Roberts Fld., 51, 64-65, 72, 74, 76
Robinson, Col. W. E., 307
Robot bomb. See
“Rocket Run,” 90
Rogers, Representative Edith Nourse, 505
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 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
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
–S–
“Sacktime Line,” 183
Sahara, 64-65, 69, 71, 77, 250
St. Eval, 78-79
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
San Antonio, 225, 344, 385, 551
San Antonio Air Depot, 4
San Diego, 182
San Francisco, 182, 355-56, 446
Santa Monica, xo, 551
Sardinia, 84-85, 263, 360, 450
Schilling, Col. Karl B., 269
School of Air Evacuation, 537
Schweinfurt, 312
Scotland, 7-8, 28, 88-89, 93, 96, 110, 247, 323, 347
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
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
Signal Corps, 52, 70, 156, 266, 313, 316, 326, 334-35, 339, 345, 376-77
Sinclair, Frank D., 120
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
Society Islands, 183
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 Command, 358
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
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
6th Emergency Rescue, 500
6th Weather, 316
7th AACS, 355
7th Emergency Rescue, 498, 500
8th Weather, 316
9th Weather, 317
10th AACS, 349-56
10th Weather, 324
11th Bomb. Sq. (M), 455
11th Weather, 331
13th AACS, 358-60
13th Weather, 327
14th AACS, 358-59
14th Photo Reconnaissance, 426
16th Weather, 331
17th Repair, 465
17th Weather, 329-33
18th AACS, 359-60
19th AACS, 359
19th Troop Carrier, 178
20th AACS, 355
21st Reconnaissance, 321
21st Weather, 328
24th AACS, 361
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
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
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
–T–
Tactical Air Command (TAC), 576-77
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
Technical School Squadrons, 434
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur, 8,, 83-84, 253
34th Subdepot, 167-68
36th St. Airport, Miami, 49, 60
TIGER flight, 67-69
Tillman, Capt. John M., 67, 69-70
Tokyo, 203, 356, 456, 458, 463, 492
Tompkins, Maj. Gen. William F., 549-50
Tontouta Airport, 174, 178, 413-94, 296
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
Trinidad, 47, 50, 217-18, 323, 447
Tripoli, 251
Troop Carrier Command, 14, 246
Truax Fld., 438
Truesdell, Lt. Col. Karl, Jr., 175
Tsili Tsili, 280-82
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
–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 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
USASTAF (U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces), 454, 526
UTAH beach, 267
–V–
V-1 missile, 103
VARSITY, 273
V-E Day, 91, 112, 205, 212, 488, 521, 526-27, 553, 558, 565-66, 569
Veterans Administration, 548
V-J Day, 19, 148, 150, 344, 395, 407, 437, 494, 553, 566-67, 578
–W–
Waco Aircraft Co., 22
Wake Island, 173
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 Coast Wing, ATC, 15, 181, 192
Western Defense Command, 157, 160, 467
Western Division, Ferrying Command, 10
Western Flying Training Command, 533
West Palm Beach, 13, 48-49, 225
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
Willkie, Wendell, 121
Wilmer, Col. W. H., 376
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
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
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
Wurtsmith, Maj. Gen. Paul B., 280
–Y–
Yale University, 438
Yalta, 91
Yank, 471
Yellow River, 135-36
Yellow Sea, 463
YOKE, 135
–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