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	Bomber Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bomber Command used not only British aircraft but also American-built machines such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator; in the case of the former they were the first to put into battle and gave useful information on improvements before the US entered the war.
		VIII Bomber Command, XV Bomber Command, XX Bomber Command and XXI Bomber Command.
		VIII Bomber Command was the UK-based strategic bomber arm of the Eighth Air Force and contributed a substantial part of Operation Pointblank, the day-night bombing campaign by the RAF and USAAF to eliminate the Luftwaffe in preparation for the invasion of Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bomber_Command (1318 words)

	Schilling Air Force Base - B-29 Memorial
		Both the XX Bomber Command, which handled B-29 operations in the China-Burma-India Theater, and the XXI Bomber Command, which controlled B-29s flying from the Marianas to Japan, were activated at Smoky Hill.
		Though the XX and XXI Bomber Commands remained at this station for only a brief period of time, Smoky Hill retained the honor of being the birthplace of these two famous units.
		Also at Smoky Hill for a short period was the 58th Bombardment Wing,1 which operated under the XX Bomber Command in China-Burma-India and later under the XXI Bomber Command in the Marianas.
	www.barton.cc.ks.us /b29/Stories/schilling.htm (747 words)

	HyperWar: Strategic Air War...Germany & Japan [Chapter 1]
		Combat elements of the XX Bomber Command were to be transferred to the Marianas as soon as bases could be made available and operations from Chengtu could be discontinued.
		The China Theater Commander was vigorously protesting to the Joint Chiefs that part of the Air Transport Command Hump tonnage was going to the XX at a time when he and the Fourteenth Air Force needed it all.
		From April 8 to May 11, 75 percent of the XXI Bomber Command's effort was diverted to tactical support of the invasion of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg), particularly to attacks on airfields in Kyushu to suppress kamikaze operations from there.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/Hansell/Hansell-6.html (13337 words)

	XX Bomber Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The XX Bomber Command of the USAAF was established in November 1943 to oversee B-29 Superfortress training in the US.
		Accompanying them was Major Geneneral Kenneth B. Wolfe, the new commander of the XX Bomber Command, which had been reassigned from the Second Air Force as the operational component of the Twentieth Air Force.
		XX Bomber Command stopped being an operational command at the end of March 1945 when the 58th Bomb Wing moved from India to the Marianas and control of the wing passed to the XXI Bomber Command.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XX_Bomber_Command (1953 words)

	LeMay - March 1998
		He was next transferred to the Mariana Islands to assume command of the XXI Bomber Command and there turned the faltering B-29 bomber campaign into a war-winning effort based upon new tactics.
		As always, he was totally dedicated to his tasks and his responsibilities as a commander, yet he was always agonizingly aware of his responsibility to his men for their safety.
		He saw the jet bomber as the weapon of the present and the missile as the weapon of the future.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March1998/0398lemay.asp (3713 words)

	THE SHAKEDOWN MISSION
		The XX Bomber Command Operations Staff had no experience dealing with a cyclone, and could not possibly understand how vicious the approaching weather would be.
		The route of the bomber steam was through the dangerous northeast quadrant of the cyclone where the tops of the giant thunderheads were far above the altitude limits of the heavily laden planes.
		When one reviews the results of the Bangkok mission, and considers the effect the dreadful cyclone had on those results, it is clear that the valiant men of the XX Bomber Command deserve better recognition than they have been accorded to date.
	www.40thbombgroup.org /matthews/Ira48.htm (1214 words)

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		Thus it was on the Mariana island of Saipan that B-29s of the newly established XXI Bomber Command began arriving in October 1944.
		His new command was an opportunity for him not only to prove his theory of strategic air warfare but also—and perhaps more importantly, from Arnold’s point of view—to justify the cost and effort of the $3 billion B-29 program and to validate independent air-force operations.
		As an independent air unit, run from Washington, the XXI Bomber Command was, in effect, a guest in Admiral Chester Nimitz’s theater of operations, dependent for the most part on its host for supplies and support.
	homepage.mac.com /umiami91/falk.doc (5123 words)

	Boeing B-29 Superfortress -- Chapter 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was to be the XX Bomber Command, to be commanded by General Wolfe.
		The XX Bomber Command would consist of the 58th Bombardment Wing (the command of which was transferred from Wolfe to his deputy, Col. Leonard (Jake) Harmon).
		At the same time, a new wing, the 73rd, to be commanded by Colonel Thomas H. Chapman, was added to the XX Bomber Command with four more groups to absorb the second batch of 150 Superfortresses.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b029-09.html (4984 words)

	Air Power:Curtis E. LeMay
		Realizing that bombers taking evasive actions were decreasing target hits, requiring repeat missions and resulting in high losses, he ordered his pilots not to take any more evasive actions.
		In 1944, LeMay was transferred to the XX Bomber Command in India where he was charged with getting the new Boeing B-29 into combat against Japan.
		But the Strategic Air Command (SAC), the air force command charged with delivering nuclear weapons, was suffering from a lack of training and mission.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/LeMay/AP36.htm (1628 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pursuit and bomber aircraft sent to the area are unable to destroy the sub.
		Since the bombers had to be launched earlier than scheduled they are unable to reach planned bases in China and have to be crashlanded or abandoned, 15 in China and the other in the USSR.
		The operational vehicle is to be the 58th Bombardment Wing (Very Heavy) (4 bombardment groups) of the XX Bomber Command, soon to be assigned to the newly activated Twentieth Air Force, operating under General of the Army Henry H "Hap" Arnold as executive agent for the JCS.
	home.comcast.net /~winjerd/ASAFHist.txt (5270 words)

	History of the 20th Air Force
		And even as the XXth Bomber Command planes were hitting at Yawata, the XXI Bomber Command was gathering its staff and training its crews at air force bases in Kansas and Colorado.
		The XX Bomber Command, in a spectacular example of high-level precision bombing, had blasted the large floating drydock at Singapore, denying its use to the hard-pressed Jap navy and had blown out an important communications link the Rama VI Railroad Bridge in Burma.
		To ease these attacks, the XXI Bomber Command carried out 97 separate strikes against the airfield of Kyushu and Shikoku in the attempt to rob the enemy of the bases from which the suicide attacks were launched.
	home.att.net /~sallyann5/b29/royster/20-air-force-history.html (4325 words)

	20th AF UNITS
		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.
		Lineage: Constituted as XX Bomber Command on 19 Nov 1943 and activated on 20 Nov. Assigned to Second AF.
		XX Bomber Command, 20 Nov 1943; Second Air Force, 2 Jun-30 Jul 1944; Twentieth Air Force, c.
	www.cbi-history.com /part_ic.html (9535 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		Curtis E. LeMay, who commanded the B-29 force in the Pacific Theater, explained Arnold’s decision this way: “Arnold did this so we would have a command in the Pacific where we were free to fly over anybody’s theater, to do an overall job.
		Arnold designated XX Bomber Command to be an operational unit under Twentieth Air Force, and Wolfe led the unit to India.
		In October 1944, XXI Bomber Command (a second subunit of the Twentieth activated in August 1944) was getting set up in the newly captured Mariana Islands, which lay 1,500 miles from Tokyo.
	www.afa.org /magazine/April2004/0404japan.asp (2963 words)

	Cam Ranh Bay Historical Notes
		On that day 6 B-29's of the 462nd Group, XX Bomber Command, released several hundred armed mines into the harbor.
		XX Bomber Command sent B-29's on recon mission to Cam Ranh Bay after reports of hostile fleet movements in the harbor.
		The U.S. Navy, under the command of Admiral William Halsey had decided to make an attack on the harbor not knowing the Japanese had vacated the harbor before Jan 11th.
	www.petester.com /html/CRB_historical_notes.html (863 words)

	Air Power:The Role of Bombing in World War II
		During The Big Week, February 20-25, 1944, 3,300 bombers were dispatched to Germany from England and 500 from Italy, with 137 of the former and 89 of the latter being lost.
		Officers were indoctrinated in bomber theory, often to the detriment of pursuit or tactical training.
		In January the command of the American XX Bomber Command in the Pacific passed to Major General LeMay.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/Bombing/AP27.htm (1885 words)

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		Spread allied resources equally to all army group commanders approaching Germany, thus keeping the Germans busy all along their defensive line and liberating as much territory as possible but moving at much slower speed.
		Neither the army or the navy wanted to be placed under the overall command of the other.
		These islands, 1,300 miles from Japan, enabled the XX Bomber Command to continue raids on the Japanese home islands.
	dist.woodstock.edu /~craigl/26.html (2410 words)

	Boeing B-29 Superfortress
		While the USAAF had set up the XX Bomber Command to take over the B-29 program, by early, 1944 it was still a shambles, with most planes stuck at the modification centers.
		XXI Bomber Command was organized for the Marianas B-29 operations.
		XXI Bomber Command exhausted its supply of incendiaries for a while, but when resupplied in April continued the terrible raids with awesome fury.
	www.acepilots.com /planes/b29.html (3280 words)

	436th BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON
		Its mission was primarily to keep the command informed by visual and photographic reconnaissance of the general situation within and behind enemy lines.
		The tactical staff and personnel of the 88th comprised the commanding officer, three pilots, designated as flight commanders; two observers, designated as operations and assistant operations officers; 15 additional pilots, of whom three were deputy flight commanders; and 16 additional observers.
		It was the sister ship to its far-reaching counterpart bomber, the B-36, and had been assigned to the 436th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Group for a series of inspections prior to reassignment with another Air Force unit at Kelly AFB, San Antonio Texas in September 1949.
	www.7bwb-36assn.org /436hist.html (10860 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On 12 November 1944 General Wheeler became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, SEAC, and on 23 June 1945 was given additional duty as the commander of the India-Burma Theater.
		General Sultan was given command of the India-Burma Theater and General Wedemeyer (former Army planner in the War Department prior to becoming Deputy Chief of Staff, SEAC, in October 1943) was appointed commander of U. Forces in China, and succeeded General Stilwell as the Generalissimo's chief of staff.
		Certain units in China, such as Navy Group China and the XX Bomber Command, were not to be under the full control of the CG, USFCT, but to continue their status as shown in directive to CG, CBI.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/WCP/enchApxB4.html (481 words)

	United States Army Air Forces in World War II
		The detailed statistics on AAF strength and operations collected during World War II were used in analyses and studies for the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and staff officers at all echelons of command.
		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 terms "Twentieth Air Force", "XX Bomber Command" and "XXI Bomber Command" are retained in July and August 1945 even though they were changed to "United States Army Strategic Air Forces (USASTAF)", "Eighth Air Force" and Twentieth Air Force", respectively, beginning July 1945.
	www.usaaf.net /digest/index.htm (800 words)

	Peacekeeper, a brave and able warrior, is retired
		He became commander of the Army Air Corps (AAC) as a major general in 1938, and commander of a newly formed US Army Air Force (USAAF) in 1941, essentially an autonomous element of the US Army.
		The requirement for a long-range strategic bomber was given to the Army in 1939.
		Third, in November 1943, Arnold formed the XX Bomber Command, or the 20th Bomber Command, subordinated the 58th Wing to it, and put it at Smokey Hill as well.
	www.talkingproud.us /Military100705D.html (1968 words)

	Biographies : MAJOR GENERAL LOUIS EDWARD COIRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In January 1942 he was in command of the 25th Bombardment Squadron when it established operations at Salinas, Ecuador.
		As deputy commander he left for India with the group, the first B-29 unit overseas during the war.
		From 1955 to 1958 General Coira was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, as commander of the 5039th Air Base Wing and also commander of the 10th Air Division.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=5031 (523 words)

	USAAF APRIL 1944
		STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (XX Bomber Command): The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) informally approve Operation MATTERHORN, the plan for the bombing of Japan by B-29s based in the Calcutta, India area and staging through advanced fields in the Chengtu, China area, which had been approved in principle by President Franklin D Roosevelt on 10 Nov 43.
		STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (XX Bomber Command): Units arriving in India from the US: HQ 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) and 676th Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy) at Charra with B-29s (first mission is 5 Jun); and 25th Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), 40th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), at Chakulia with B-29s (first mission is 5 Jun).
		STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (XX Bomber Command): Units arriving in India with B-29s from the US: HQ 468th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy) and 792d, 793d, 794th and 795th Bombardment Squadrons (Very Heavy) at Kharagpur; 677th and 679th Bombardment Squadrons (Very Heavy), 444th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy), at Charra; first mission for all units is 5 Jun 44.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /60th/today/1944/4-44.html (7347 words)

	Biographies : MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS E. MOORE
		In June 1938 General Moore was stationed at Langley Field, Va., as supply officer and crew commander; and in 1939 he went to the Caribbean Air Command, where he performed pilot and squadron commander duties both in Panama and Puerto Rico.
		In October 1943 he became chief of staff, XX Bomber Command at Biggs Field.
		He was project officer for the reorganization of the Air Training Command and the transfer of ATC headquarters to Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=6523 (681 words)

	David Arthur Burchinal, General, United States Air Force
		He came to the U.S. European Command from duty as director of the Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. General Burchinal was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1915.
		Remaining at Biggs Field, he was reassigned in July 1943 to the XX Bomber Command as assistantA-3 for the 16th Bombardment Operations Training Wing.
		He later became deputy chief of staff for operations of the wing and in March 1945, became deputy A-3 Headquarters XXI Bomber Command on Guam in the Marianas Islands.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /burchin.htm (1004 words)

	The First Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Assigned to Air Defense Command in Mar 1946 and to Continental Air Command in Dec 1948, being concerned primarily with air defense until 1949 and with reserve and national guard activities thereafter.
		I Bomber (later assigned to Second AF and redesignated XX Bomber Command): 1941-1942.
		I Bomber (Antisubmarine Command prior to assignment to First AF): 1943-1946.
	members.cox.net /consolidated_aircraft/clubhouse/AAF/1af.htm (141 words)

	58 Air Division (Defense) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Second Air Force, 1 May 1943; II Bomber Command, 15 May 1943; Army Air Forces, 8 Jun 1943; Second Air Force, 15 Oct 1943; XX Bomber Command, 20 Nov 1943; Twentieth Air Force, 29 Jun-12 Oct 1944.
		XX Bomber Command, 8 Feb 1945; XXI Bomber Command, 29 Mar 1945; Twentieth Air Force, 16 Jul 1945; Army Service Forces, c.
		After the Japanese surrender, they dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners of war in Japan, Korea, and Formosa, and took part in show of force missions.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/rso/airdivision_pages/0058ad.asp (617 words)

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