Details a report of operations, including routes, bombing, enemy defenses, weather and statistics for operation number 438 (oil refinery at Bremen, seven G.A.F. airfields, two railway bridges and 12 Crossbow targets in France) and 439 (six...
The main objective of this study is to establish an Eighth Air Force organization designed primarily for mobility and composed insofar as possible of standard units. Contains two proposal plans.
The weekly intelligence summary give information on and about tactical intelligence, objective folder and target chart data, war news from other fighting fronts, Japanese antiaircraft defenses, and special reports from EAC tactical units.
This is monthly intelligence report no. 6 from June 1943, Antisubmarine Command. It is a summary of activities, gives an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine operations, a review of the first six months of 1943, as well as enemy...
Office, U.S. Secretary, Office of the Combined Chiefs of Staff
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs' meeting at the major conferences touch on virtually every policy and strategy issue of World War II, from initial troop deployments to counter Axis aggression, through the debates about the location and timing of...
United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area
Report of the United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area's participation in the Marianas Operation. Volume 2 of 2 . Part 3 focuses on the XXIV Corps. This volume looks at G-1 personnel and related staff sections, G-2 intelligence, G-3...
Looks at issues involved with the development of daylight formation bombing, the most pressing being bombing accuracy. Techniques available provide a reasonably high degree of accuracy under conditions of fair visibility, but often factors combine...
Details a report of operations, including routes, bombing, enemy defenses, weather and statistics for operation number 435 (13 Crossbow installations in Pas de Calais area, France) and 436 (airfields and a railroad bridge in France).
To drop the 503rd Paratroop Regiment on the Island of Corregidor. To be accomplished by two lifts of 51 planes on the 16th of February and one lift of 43 planes on the 17th day of February. During the first half of 1943, the 317th Group and the...
This book is concerned primarily with the combat (or tactical) groups that were active during the Second World War. Although such groups had numerous designations, nearly all fell within four major categories: bombardment, fighter, reconnaissance,...
B-24 aircraft of the 2d Bombardment Division carried on supply operations during the period 29 August to 30 September 1944, flying from various bases in the U.K. to terminals at A-50C, A-71, A-64, A-78 and B-51. Initially rations, medical supplies,...
Special operations have not always been viewed so positively. Prior to the early 1960's- when President John F. Kennedy expanded U.S. Special Forces and made counterinsurgency the cornerstone of his Flexible Response doctrine- the lot of special...
Contains a series of essays on various military campaigns and operations during World War II and the Vietnam War. All of the documents illustrate both the historical interest of the officer corps and the variety of tactical situations that can be...
The USAAF responded to the requirement to keep China engaged against Japan by conducting two distinct air supply operations, a tactical air supply mission to Burma and a strategic air supply effort over the Himalayas to China. The tactical air...
65th Fighter Wing, 8th U.S. Air Force, Headquarters
This document was written to make and show why certain recommendations may help future air force commanders conserve fighters; this is not a training manual, however. It details the fact that flak was by far the most dangerous weapon the strategic...
Navy Department, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief
This document is a chronology of the Pacific War. There were comparatively few officers in the Pacific Fleet who had been on duty in the Pacific since the beginning of the war, and the majority had been there less than a year. Many had been...
AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Warren, Harris G.
Rather than the usual account of strategic bombardment or tactical combat, this history recounts the part played by American airmen in support of the Partisan resistance movements in occupied European countries. The study describes special...
Contains data on actual production by months from July 1, 1940 at the beginning of the War Program, through August 31, 1945, the last month of actual fighting against Japan. Covers aircraft, ships, ordnance and automotive vehicles (guns and small...
An inspection tour of selected antiaircraft positions and installations in the Shanghai and Nanking-Pukow areas was made during the period of 16 September to 5 October 1945, by Captain Maurice Hoffman and Major Thomas G. Balliet. The purpose of...