This manual is a guide for airdrome commanders, airdrome defense officers, and personnel available for the defense of airdromes. It treats of the local defense of forward-area airdromes, exclusive of counteraction by aircraft, by the personnel,...
This paper examines the location of Airdromes with respect to the Front Lines. Several factors are considered such as: depth of penetration or length of time over hostile territory, security, economy of Operation, geography, control and...
Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, Historical Division
This document gives an overview of Operation Torch (the Torch plan- genesis and development), actions of the Twelfth Air Force (organization of the Torch Air Force and air plan, contribution of the Eighth Air Force, air preparations for the...
AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Mayock, Thomas J.
This study recounts the career of the Twelfth Air Force from the time it became established in newly pacified French North Africa until it was absolved in the Northwest African Air Forces. Contents include the race for Tunis, impasse and...
This document focuses on water airdromes or landing areas (types of sites, availability, planes suitable for use), ice airdromes (types of ice, how near the shore, pack ice, ice fields, ice caps), and conventional airdromes (arctic problems and...
This study describes the procurement of bombs by the Air Force, logistical principles involved in the supply of airplane bombs, the effect of airdrome locations on the supply and handling of airplane bombs, quantities of bombs required, and...
Employment of Airborne Field Artillery, prepared by the Field Artillery School in consultation with Headquarters, Airborne Command, represents the current thought of the Airborne Command on the subject. The use of this document is authorized as a...
Includes instructions issued to observers (observation post organizers, chief observers, orientation card, volunteer observer’s button, and flash message form/message/symbols), multiple interviews, views of A.D. Comdr. on a unified air defense,...
This document presents in a narrative form an outline of the development of the United States Army Forces in the South Pacific, their organization, and participation in the several campaigns leading to the reduction of the Solomons and the Bismarck...
This document was produced by the Third Photo Group in order to promote a better understanding of photo reconnaissance and to present the system and developments which have evolved out of their experiences. The report presents a survey of the...
Headquarters, Third Photographic Group, Reconnaissance
The 3rd Photographic Group Reconnaissance is a combat organization assigned to the 12th AF. This Group is committed to the supplying of Photo Intelligence to all demanders in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of Operations. However,...
The thesis of this research is that the U.S. Army aviation engineer units played a crucial role in the success of General Douglas MacArthur's island hopping campaign in the Southwest Pacific Theater at the tactical, operational, and strategic...
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.
Digest of information on the Sicilian Operations including summary of Administrative Order No.1 HQ III ASAC, resume of air service activities, and commentaries of individuals engaged in the operations. There are four sections.