Vol. V: The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki,
June 1944 to August 1945

Prepared Under the Editorship of
Wesley Frank Craven Princeton University
James Lea Cate University of Chicago

 

This volume is "under development" and will be completed as time allows...


Contents

Forward

I. The Twentieth Air Force and MATTERHORN

James Lea Cate, University of Chicago
1. The VLR Project 1
2. The Twentieth Air Force 33
3. MATTERHORN Logistics 58
4. XX Bomber Command Against Japan 92
5. Exit MATTERHORN 131

II. Aid to China: The Theater Air Forces in CBI

Woodford A. Heflin, Air University
Lee Bowen, USAF Historical Division
6. Ways and Means
      Woodford F. Heflin
179
7. Delay in Burma, Disaster in China
      Lee Bowen
200
8. The Liberation of Burma
      Lee Bowen
233
9. Victory in China
      Lee Bowen
251

III. Return to the Philippines

Frank Futrell, USAF Historical Division
Majh. Bernhardt L. Mortensen, USAF
10. Prelude to Invasion
      Frank Futrell
275
11. Men and Weapons
      Frank Futrell
323
12. Leyte
      Frank Futrell
341
13. Mindoro
      Frank Futrell
390
14. Luzon
      Frank Futrell
413
15. The Clean-Up
      Maj. Bernhardt L. Mortensen
448
16. Cutting the Enemy's Lifeline
      Maj. Bernhardt L. Mortensen
470

IV. Strategic Bombardment From Pacific Bases

James Taylor, Southwest Texas State Teachers College
James Lea Cate, Universzity of Chicago
James C. Olson, Nebraska State Historical Society
Frank Futrell, USAF Historical Division
Wesley Frank Craven, Princeton University
17. Preparation for Combat
      James Taylor
507
18. Precision Bombardment Campaign
      James Lea Cate
      James C. Olson
546
19. Iwo Jima
      James Lea Cate
      James C. Olson
577
20. Urban Area Attacks
      James Lea Cate
      James C. Olson
608
21. The All-Out B-29 Attack
      James Lea Cate
      James C. Olson
645
22. Reorganization for Victory
      Frank Futrell
      James Taylor
676
23. Victory
      James Lea Cate
      Wesley Frank Craven
703

Notes (Footnotes are included/hyperlinked with each chapter.)
Glossary
Index 845


List of Maps and Charts

  1. Hawaiian Islands
  2. Luzon
  3. The Philippines and Northern Australia
  4. Northeastern Australia
  5. Organization of Army Air Forces, March 1942
  6. Boundaries of Continental Defense, June 1942
  7. Eastern and Western Approaches to Panama Canal
  8. Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
  9. Principal Sea and Air Routes as Designated by Washington Conference, December 1941
  10. Atlantic Ferrying and Transport Routes Prior to 7 December 1941
  11. The ABDA Area
  12. Java
  13. The Southwest Pacific
  14. Australia and the United States
  15. Australia and New Guinea
  16. Island Chain of the South Pacific
  17. The Tokyo Mission
  18. The Coral Sea
  19. The North Pacific
  20. The Aleutian Islands
  21. New Guinea and the Solomons
  22. China-Burma-India
  23. Sinkings of Merchant Vessels, September 1940-August 1942
  24. AAF Antisubmarine Operations
  25. Western Atlantic Defense Areas as of 1 August 1942
  26. Schematic Organization Recommended by Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom for U.S. Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom
  27. Eighth Air Force Installations, August 1942
  28. Routes of BOLERO Movement
  29. Organization of Eighth Air Force as of August 1942

List of Illustrations

  1. General of the Army Henry H. Arnold
  2. The DH-4B
  3. The Martin Bomber, 1921
  4. The Barling Bomber, 1923
  5. The B-10B
  6. The B-18A
  7. B-17s in Formation, May 1937
  8. B-17s Over New York, 1939
  9. The B-15 and a P-36
  10. The B-19
  11. Potential Spheres of Air Influence
  12. Potential Spheres of Air Influence
  13. Hemisphere Defense--Bases and Operating Radii B-17 and B-24
  14. Air Offensive Against Germany, AWPD/1
  15. Construction of Alaskan Landing Field, August 1941
  16. Construction at a Camp in Iceland, November 1941
  17. P-26
  18. P-35
  19. Plan for Employment of Bombardment Aviation in Defense of Oahu--Search Sectors
  20. B-34
  21. P-36
  22. A-20
  23. A-24
  24. Japanese Photograph of Wheeler Field, 7 December 1941
  25. Hangar No. 11, Hickam Field
  26. Improvised Machine Gun Nest, Hickam Field
  27. Damage to Barracks, Wheeler Field
  28. Damage at Wheeler Field
  29. Cavite Navy Yards, Philippine Islands, 10 December 1941
  30. Port Area, Manila, 24 December 1941
  31. Window Display in New York Department Store
  32. Ground Observation Posts
  33. Operations Room, Philadelphia Information Center
  34. B-24As Used in the Ferrying Command's Pioneer North Atlantic Transport Service
  35. LB-30 Used in Pacific Transport Service Inaugurated in the Spring of 1942
  36. First Test Landing on Steel Matting, Carolina Maneuvers, 1941
  37. Atkinson Field, British Guiana, June 1942
  38. Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brazil, June 1942
  39. Bluie West 1, June 1942
  40. Reykjavik Airfield, Iceland, April 1942
  41. The Night Shift, Patterson Field, Iceland, 1942
  42. Camouflaged P-38 Belonging to 41st Fighter Squadron, 1942
  43. The Same Plane with Camouflage Partly Removed
  44. Reconnaissance Photo of Vukakanau Airfield (Rabaul), April 1942
  45. Port Moresby, 1 June 1942
  46. A B-25 Ready for Take-Off from USS Hornet
  47. One of the B-25s Takes Off
  48. Chinese Carry Doolittle Raiders to Safety
  49. Japanese Carrier Under Attack by B-17s, 4 June 1942
  50. Japanese Installations on North Head, Kiska, July 1942
  51. RAINBOW Headquarters, 35th Fighter Group, Port Moresby, 1942
  52. RAINBOW Headquarters, 35th Fighter Group, Port Moresby, 1942
  53. RAINBOW Karachi Air Base, 1942
  54. A B-18 on Patrol in the Caribbean
  55. The AAF Officially Takes Over RAF Airdrome, December 1942
  56. Burtonwood as it Appeared at the Close of the War
  57. The Spitfire MK-5
  58. The Spitfire MK-5, Side View
  59. Crash-Landed Planes of the Eight Air Force--Greenland, Summer 1942
  60. Ceremonies Attending Transfer of Eagle Squadrons to USAAF, September 1942
  61. Briefing of Bomber Crews, Polebrook, August 1942
  62. Reconnaissance Photo, Rouen-Sotteville I

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