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Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina - Amphibian flying boat. Curtiss SOC-4 Seagull - Floatplane. Douglas RD-4 Dolphin - Flying boat. Fairchild J2K - Liaison. Grumman JF-2 Duck - Amphibian floatplane. Grumman J2F-4 Duck - Amphibian floatplane. Grumman JRF Goose - Amphibian flying boat. Grumman J4F Widgeon - Amphibian flying boat.
The P-61 radar operator occupied a separate compartment in the rear of the fuselage accessed from a hatch below. In August 1940, sixteen months before the United States entered the war, the U.S. Air Officer in London, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, was briefed on British research in radar ("Radio Detection And Ranging" as it was then known), which had been underway since 1935, and had ...
Carriers in the Pacific theater (1939–1945) Wartime carrier operations in the Pacific began with Japan using carriers to provide combat support for her invasions of China. Japan innovated the coordinated, massed use of aircraft from multiple carriers to establish air superiority wherever they struck. [22]
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign (1945) Commanders. Notable. commanders. General Carl Spaatz. The United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USSTAF) [1] was a formation of the United States Army Air Forces. It became the overall command and control authority of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater of World War II.
The 318th Fighter Group was activated in October 1942 when the remainders of the 72d and 44th Fighter Squadrons were transferred from the 15th and 18th Groups after their former groups were deployed to the Central Pacific. They were part of the 7th Air Force until summer of 1945. The initial mission of the 318th was air protection of the ...
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in 1940 by a team headed by James H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission.
C. Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express. Curtiss C-46 Commando. Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the air, ground and naval forces of the Empire of Japan in the South West Pacific Theatre. As defined by the United States Department of War, the South West Pacific theatre included the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies (excluding Sumatra), Borneo, Australia, the ...