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	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
		Air power in the European phase of this war reached a stage of full adolescence, a stage marked by rapid development in planes, armament, equipment, tactics and concepts of strategic employment, and by an extraordinary increase in the effort allocated to it by all the major contestants.
		The air force was, primarily, an arm of the blitzkrieg.
		The casualty effects of air action are shown by the fact that the proportion of wounded to killed shifted from a ratio of eight to one in 1940 and 1941 to a ratio of three to one in 1944 and 1945.
	www.anesi.com /ussbs02.htm (12314 words)

	Eighth Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the war the Eighth Air Force was headquartered in England at the Wycombe Abbey School for Girls, Buckinghamshire.
		Eighth Air Force was relieved from assignment to Strategic Air Command and assigned to the new Air Combat Command (ACC) on 1 June 1992.
		United States Air Force in the United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eighth_Air_Force (3418 words)

	Numbered Air Forces Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Assigned to Army Air Forces on September 16, 1943, to Continental Air Forces on April 16, 1945, and to Air Defense Command on March 21, 1946.
		The new air force drew its operational forces from existing air forces in the European and Mediterranean theaters and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed.
		Headquartered in the United States, under command of General Henry H. Arnold, with direction from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, its B-29 components operated in the China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters, carrying the air war to the Japanese.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/rso/numbered_airforce_index.html (4679 words)

	Revolt of the Admirals
		The development of the Air Corps concept and the building of its forces were helped by the evolution of advanced bomber aircraft--the B-17 first flew in 1935--and the creation in March 1935 of the General Headquarters (GHQ) Air Force under Brig.
		Twentieth Air Force became the predecessor of the postwar Strategic Air Command, which in December 1946 was in effect made a JCS specified command under the Unified Command Plan signed by President Truman.
		As press coverage critical of the B-36 and the Air Force increased in May, it was divulged that the author of the so-called "anonymous document" was Cedric R. Worth, civilian assistant to Under Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/0588revolt.asp (3493 words)

	Major Commands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Because of the large number of organizations under its control, Air Force Reserve became the largest of the separate operating agencies and was the largest of the direct reporting units before returning to SOA status.
		Air Mobility Command is the USAF component of the United States Transportation Command.
		Air Defense Command, inactivated on July 1, 1950, was reestablished as a major command on January 1, 1951, when CONAC ceased to handle the nation's air defense mission.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/rso/major_commands.html (3399 words)

	Strategic Air Defense - United States Nuclear Forces
		Strategic Air Defense is an umbrella term which includes all required functions and assets to plan, execute, and monitor theater air combat operations in North America.
		The Canada East and Canada West Sector Air Operations Centers (SAOCs) were consolidated at Canadian Forces Base North Bay in 1994, and the Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters is scheduled to move to Winnipeg in 1997 as part of the restructuring of Canada's operational air forces into a single operational headquarters.
		The operational concept for strategic air defense is to maintain constant surveillance, warning, and attack capability for defense of the North American continent and maintenance of air sovereignty.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/airdef/overview.htm (1627 words)

	United States Army Air Forces in World War II
		The Army Air Forces Statistical Digest (World War II), published by the Office of Statistical Control, Headquarters, Army Air Forces, makes available in one volume and on a uniform basis summary statistics on AAF personnel, aircraft, equipment, combat operations and other activities during World War II.
		For example, as a result of a detailed study of the ratios of heavy bomber crews to heavy bomber airplanes in the European and Mediterranean Theaters of Operations in the fall of 1944, heavy bomber crews were transferred from ETO to MTO in order to achieve greater balance in both theaters.
		The tables in each section are preceded by an introductory statement, giving some indication of the purposes for which the data were originally gathered, the history and methods of compilation of the data, specific sources and examples of analytical uses of the figures.
	www.usaaf.net /digest/index.htm (800 words)

	World War II Air Force History - 28 Volumes
		Maps, charts, and photos are used to help document the United States Air Force's role in World War II In March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget ordering each war agency to prepare "an accurate and objective account" of that agency's war experience.
		While intelligence is important to all military operations, it is especially significant to air forces, for the targets chosen and the ability to reach and destroy them often determine whether the speed, flexibility, and power of the aerial weapon is used to its utmost capacity to affect the outcome of combat.
		Condensed Analysis of the Ninth Air Force in the European Theater of Operations is an analytical study of the operating procedures and functional organization of tactical air power as developed by the Ninth Air Force in the war of Western Europe.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /wwii_usaf_hist.html (2346 words)

	9th Air Force - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 9th Air Force is also an intermediate headquarters under Air Combat Command and is responsible for five active-duty flying wings, as well as overseeing the operational readiness of 18 designated units of the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.
		Air Combat Command (ACC), with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia., is a major command created June 1, 1992, by combining its predecessors Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command.
		Approximately 80 aircraft from both the Air Force and Navy are participating in the two-week exercise.
	www.centaf.af.mil (825 words)

	Wheelus Air Base - United States Nuclear Forces
		Strategic Air Command bomber deployments to Wheelus began on 16 November 1950.
		Wheelus was then reassigned to US Air Forces in Europe on the 1st of January in 1953 under the 7272nd Air Base Wing.
		The United States enjoyed a generally warm relationship with Libya and pursued policies centered on interests in operations at Wheelus Air Base and the considerable US oil interests.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/wheelus.htm (718 words)

	Carl Spaatz Papers (Library of Congress)
		The papers of Carl Spaatz, career army and air force officer and first chief of staff of the United States Air Force, were given to the Library of Congress by Spaatz and the air force.
		Part II was transferred to the Library by the Air Force Office of Public Affairs in 1981 and by Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., in 1988.
		Spaatz's tenure as commanding general, Army Air Forces, and chief of staff of the United States Air Force is well documented in the Chief of Staff File.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/spaatz.html (1876 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Cabell was a member of the advisory council for the United States Army Air Force headquarters in Washington before being made commander of the Forty-fifth Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force in the European Theater of Operations.
		He was director of plans for the United States Strategic Air Forces from May until July 1944, when he became director of operations and intelligence for the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, a post he held until May 1945.
		After the war he was the United States air representative on the military staff committee of the United Nations in New York.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/CC/fca1.html (402 words)

	HyperWar: Strategic Air War...Germany & Japan [Forward]
		The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan is part of a continuing series of historical volumes produced by the Office of Air Force History in direct support of Project Warrior.
		Since its beginnings in 1982, Project Warrior has captured the imagination of Air Force people around the world and reawakened a keener appreciation of our fundamental purpose as a Service: to deter war, but to be prepared to fight and win should deterrence fail.
		My outlook upon strategic planning and the conduct of air warfare was influenced by my service under Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz and my admiration for his example of calm, courageous common sense and good judgment.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/Hansell/Hansell-Fwd.html (1803 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		By the spring of 1944, Allied strategic forces operating under the combined bomber offensive had attacked German submarine construction yards, aircraft plants, transportation systems, and other industrial facilities with limited success.
		When the combined bomber offensive officially ended on April I, 1944, and control of the strategic air forces passed to Eisenhower, Allied airmen were well on the way to achieving air superiority over all of Europe.
		While they continued strategic bombing, the AAF turned its attention to the tactical air battle in support of the Normandy invasion.
	www.usaaf.net /ww2/atlanticwall/awpg4.htm (486 words)

	Germany Surrenders Unconditionally May 4 - May 8, 1945
		Orders were issued at Reims for the carrying out of the surrender of the German Army and Air Forces on the Western Front, in Norway, and in the Channel Islands, and, in a document signed by Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough, the surrender of the German Naval Forces, including the U-Boat Fleet, was provided for.
		For this purpose Donitz designated General Field Marshal Keitel, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces High Command and Commander in Chief of the Army, General Admiral von Friedeburg, Commander in Chief of the Navy, and Colonel General Hans Jiirgen Stumpff, representative of the Commander in Chief of the Air Forces.
		Carl Spaatz, Commanding General of the United States Strategic Air Forces, and F. de Lattre-Tassigny, Commanding General of the First French Army, were witnesses.
	www.anesi.com /GermanySurrenders.htm (643 words)

	John M. Cone, Major General, United States Army
		On his return to the United States in June 1947, he was assigned as Commanding Officer, Detroit Ordnance District, Detroit, Michigan.
		In August 1951 he was ordered to General Staff duty in Washington, DC in the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, and in 1952 became the Chief, Purchases Branch, Procurement Division, of that office.
		Returning to the United States he was assigned as Commanding Officer, Anniston Ordnance Depot, Anniston, Alabama, from January 1959 until August 1960.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jmcone.htm (504 words)

	Air Force Space Command - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Extra cookies were distributed to 24-hour work centers such as security forces, the fire department and wing operations center.
		Force of nature to force multiplier: 6th SOPS delivers critical weather data to war fighters
		SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- "Get data or die" holds special significance for the 6th Space Operations Squadron, an Air Force Reserve Command unit here whose Airmen must deliver data to their customers within 10 minutes of downloading it from their satellites.
	www.afspc.af.mil (405 words)

	Quarterly Journal
		Washington, D.C. Career army and air force officer and first chief of staff of the United States Air Force.
		Spaatz's tenure as commanding general, Army Air Forces, and chief of staff of the United States Air Force is well documented in the
		Part II Part II of the Spaatz Papers ranges from 1915 to 1981 but most of the material is dated 1948-1963 and concerns Spaatz's activities after his retirement from the Air Force in 1948.
	memory.loc.gov /master/mss/eadxmlmss/2003/ms003033.xml (1564 words)

	Bernt Balchen, Colonel, United States Army Air Forces
		Recognizing the late Bernt Balchen for his many contributions to the United States and a lifetime of remarkable achievements on the centenary of his birth, October 23, 1999.
		Whereas Bernt Balchen served brilliantly as an officer in the United States Air Force and contributed immeasurably to the mission of the Air Force and the security of the United States;
		In 1943, now a colonel, he was assigned to the 8th Air Force and operated into Sweden and Norway, among other tasks dropping supplies and weapons to the Norwegian "underground" and evacuating allied personnel from Sweden to England.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /bbalchen.htm (1292 words)

	THE AIR FORCE ART COLLECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		General Carl Spaatz, Commanding General Of The United States Strategic Air Forces In Europe.
		In Combat Theaters He Has Commanded The 8th Air Force, North African Air Forces, And The 12th Air Force, And The U.S..
		The D.S.M. The Legion Of Merit The D.F.C. The Air Medal The Grand Officer Of French Legion Of Honor The Russian Order Of Suvorov And Is A Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire.
	www.afapo.hq.af.mil /presentation/Common/artcollection.cfm?IMAGE_ID=117 (162 words)

	HyperWar: Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms of WWII --- U
		In the Central Pacific, the Army unit of fire for each of the main weapons was as follows:
		USAAFUK -- United States Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom
		USFIP -- United States Forces in the Philippines
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/Glossary/U.html (283 words)

	Strategic Air Defense - United States Nuclear Forces
		By David F. Winkler, for the United States Air Force Air Combat Command - June 1997
		Strategic Air DefenseAir Combat Command Mission Area Plan (MAP)
		Continental Air Defense: A Dedicated Force Is No Longer Needed, (05/03/94, GAO/NSIAD-94-76)
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/airdef/index.html (152 words)

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