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The Air Force Historical Studies Office summarizes the execution of USAAF strategy during World War II: [44] "Arnold's staff made the first priority in the war to launch a strategic bombing offensive in support of the RAF against Germany. The Eighth Air Force, sent to England in 1942, took on that job.
The manipulation trainer used 12 towers at heights of 10–40 feet (3.0–12.2 m) and arranged like a B-29 formation. Each tower had 2 nose, 2 tail, 2 ring sighting, and 4 blister positions for students to fire camera guns against simulated attacks by PT-13 and PT-17 Stearman biplane aircraft. [1]
90th Reconnaissance Wing; Oct 1943-Oct 1945 Twelfth Air Force (MTO); Fifteenth Air Force (MTO) Reactivated as USAF 90th Air Division (Reconnaissance), Apr 1948-Jun 1949. 91st Reconnaissance Wing
LCDR John S. Thach wearing AN6530 goggles in 1942.. AN-6530 Goggles were produced during World War II as eye protection for United States Army and Navy flight crews. In 1943, the AN-6530 design replaced as standard the nearly identical USAAF B-7 goggle produced by Chas Fischer Spring Company of Brooklyn, New York.
USAAF Flying the P-39: USAAF Food and Magic: OWI; WACMPI Food for Fighters: OWI; WACMPI German Industrial Manpower: OSS Handling Aviation Gasoline in the Field: USAAF His New World: OWI; Narrated by Spencer Tracy: How to Fly the B-17: USAAF How to Fly the P-47: USAAF How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines: OSS How to Shoot a Rifle: USAAF Kill or Be ...
At the entry of the United States into World War II on 7 December 1941, the Army Air Forces (AAF) had expanded to 67 groups from a pre-1939 total of 15, but approximately half were paper units just forming. The entry into the war meant an immediate significant increase in the numbers of new combat groups, expanding to 269 groups by the end of 1943.
The major USAAF combat organizations in the region was Fifth Air Force, based in Australia after the Battle of the Philippines (1941–42). From Australia, the Allied forces, led by General Douglas MacArthur , first moved north into New Guinea in 1942, then into the Netherlands East Indies in 1943, and returning to the Philippines in 1944 and 1945.
It has an outer 12-hour ring and an inner 24-hour dial. Aircraft position was recorded along with the colour of the triangle beneath the minute hand at the time of sighting. This was reported to sector headquarters, where counters of the relayed colour were used to represent each air raid on a large table with a map of the UK overlaid with a ...