
Army Air Forces
in
World War II
Vol. VII: Services Around the World
Prepared Under the Editorship of
Wesley Frank Craven Princeton University
James Lea Cate University of Chicago
Contents
I. Air Transport
John D. Carter, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force
Frank H. Heck, Centre College of Kentucky
II. Aviation Engineers
John E. Fagg, New York University
III. Weather and Communications
Jonas A. Jonasson, Linfield College
IV. Medicine, Morale and Air-Sea Rescue
Dr. George V. LeRoy, University of Chicago
Martin R. R. Goldman
Jonas A. Jonasson, Linfield College
V. Women in the Air
Kathleen Williams Boom, University of Tennessee Extention
Division, Memphis Center
VI. Redeployment and Demobilization
Chauncey E. Sanders, USAF Historial Division
(Footnotes are included/hyperlinked with each chapter.)
List of Maps
- The South
Atlantic Route
- African Air Routes
- North Atlantic Air Routes
- China-Burma-India Airway
- Air Route to Alaska
- South Pacific Airways
- Southwest Pacific Airways
- Central Pacific Airways
List of Illustrations
- ATC Training Program
- Radio Mechanics
- Engine Mechanics
- ATC Aircraft Types
- Douglas C-47
- Curtiss C-46
- Consolidated C-87
- Douglas C-54
- ATC Planes at Iceland Base
- ATC on the Ramp
- Production-Line Maintenance,
Tezgaon, India
- Refuelling, China Base
- Loading C-46's in India
- By Native Labour
- By ATC G.I.'s
- The Hump Route
- Take-off from Assam
- Nearing Kunming
- Transportation in China
- Aviation Engineer (Airborne) with Light Equipment, BROADWAY, Burma
- Aviation Engineers on Middleburg Island
- Clearing the Strip
- Laying Steel Mat
- Digging Coral for Base
- Finished Strip, Thirteen Days Later
- Native Help for the Aviation Engineers
- Assam
- India
- Heavy Equipment
- Guam
- Iceland
- Replacing Steel Mat With Concrete, Greenland
- Building B-29 Base at Isley Field, Saipan
- Building Runways in India
- Aviation Engineer Style
- Native Style
- Guarding Aviation Engineers from Japanese Snipers, Guam
- Inflating Weather Balloon, Keflavik, Iceland
- Marianas Islands
- Launching Weather Balloon
- Reading Meteorological Instruments
- Theodolite Operator, Greenland Base
- AACS, Anguar Island: Radio Station and Homing Beacon
- AACS, Anguar Island: Transcribing Radio Messages
- AACS, Anguar Island: Control Board
- AACS Control Tower, Myitkynia, Burma
- Air Evacuation from China
- Hand Loading on C-46
- Hand Loading on C-54
- Air Evacuation
- Stopover at Iceland
- Lashing Down on C-87, China
- Administering Blood Plasma
- Mail Call, Basingbourne, England
- Dancing
- G.I. Style, Fighter Base, England
- Kanaka Style, B-29 Base, Saipan
- AAF Entertainers
- On Tour of Pacific Bases
- At Thirteenth Air Force Base
- Voting Service, Seventh Air Force
- Celebrities: At Nam Lip, Burma
- Celebrities: At Bomber Base in England
- Celebrities: At Air Depot in England
- Celebrities: At Air Base in Lancashire, England
- Athletics, Eighth Air Force Base, England
- Easter Sunrise Service, Thirteenth Air Force
- Enlisted Men's Clubs in India
- At ATC Base
- At Air Depot Panagrah
- Air-Sea Rescue
- Fifth Air Force B-24 Spotting Survivors
- Thirteenth Air Force Catalina Taxiing in for Pick-up
- Rescue of General Twining and Crew in Coral Sea
- Approach of Rafts to Navy PBY
- Rescuer Swimming Out With Line
- Coming Ashore
- Safe After Six Days on a Raft
- Catalina Pick-Ups
- By Thirteenth Air Force
- By Fifth Air Force
- Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England: Switchboard Operator
- Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England
- Teletype Operators
- In Mobile Control Unit Truck
- Stenographer
- Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England: Bakeress T/5
- Air Wac: Welder for ATC in India
- Air Wacs in CBI
- Over the Hump to China
- Arriving at Chungking
- Air Wacs in CBI
- Reception at Chungking