Dear Gentle People,
I received the following email from JPAC this evening. You are all people, whom has helped with this research to date and as I promised, the purpose of this email is to let you know, the next step has begun. I realize, they will attempt to push us all aside and I promise to do as much as I can, to insure that will not take place.
Willis S. Cole, Jr. “Sam”
Executive Director/Curator
Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
13444 124th Ave NE – Kirkland WA 98034-5403 USA (425)823-4445
www.ww1.org – email : ww1@ww1.org
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Feb
06
2010
Jan
14
2010
Category : Army Air Forces, Crew & Planes
There is a set of photos I have since several years. I wish some veteran would send more photos to me but at time goes by those heroes becomes really old man and it is not easy.
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Jan
12
2010
Four identified dead from B-17 crash site in France has just been proven to actually be four dead who are still carried as MIA
Jan
07
2010
Army Air Force Fans, Historians, Veterans’ Relatives or anyone else involved : I am searching photos from the following B-17 Bomber
Airplane Type : B17-G-35-VE
Serial Number : 42-97904
Nickname : Lady Jeannette
Gunter,
Freeman died a year or so ago. However, his reputation is such, that anything in his books become references in another after another. I have had nasty letters, when some called’ historians see that I do not use the miss-information in my books. Hell, I had to fight with our National Archives and the US Air Force Historical Research Agency about the identity of the B-24 that crashed at Tincourt-Boucly. Finally, when I had a-hold of their nuts and short hairs, with in depth proof that all of their documents were wrong and I was right, did they agree, I was right.
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Dec
14
2009
After Action Report, June 2 1944 to June 17 1944, US Eight Air Force in Normandy.
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Dec
06
2009
The foregoing pages tell of the results achieved by air power in each of its several roles in the war in the Pacific, including the effects of the atomic bombs. The Survey has already reported on the results achieved by air power in the European war. It remains to seek out the degree to which the Pacific study modifies, adds to or supports the signposts to the future which were suggested by the European study; to state the extent to which hindsight suggests that air power might have been differently or better employed in the Pacific; to discuss the impact of the existence of atomic bombs on the role of air power; and to state the Survey’s recommendations.
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Dec
06
2009
The Air Attack Against the Japanese Home Islands
Basic United States strategy contemplated that the final decision in the Japanese war would be obtained by an invasion of the Japanese home islands. The long-range bombing offensive from the Marianas was initiated in November 1944, with that in mind as the primary objective.
As in Europe prior to D-Day, the principal measure of success set for strategic air action was the extent to which it would weaken enemy capability and will to resist our amphibious forces at the time of landings. This led, originally, to somewhat greater emphasis on the selection of targets such as
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Dec
05
2009
Elimination of Japanese Conventional Air Power
Japanese production of aircraft of all types rose from an average of 642 planes per month during the first 9 months of the war to a peak of 2572 planes per month in September 1944. The rise was particularly great during 1943, after the Japanese had learned the lessons of the 1942 campaigns. Aggregate production during the war was 65.300 planes.
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Dec
05
2009
United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report, Pacific
WASHINGTON DC 1 JULY 1946
FOREWORD
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was established by the Secretary of War on 3 November 1944, pursuant to a directive from the late President Roosevelt. It was established for the purpose of conducting an impartial and expert study of the effects of our aerial attack on Germany, to be used in connection with air attacks on Japan and to establish a basis for evaluating air power as an instrument of military strategy, for planning the future development of the United States armed forces, and for determining future economic policies with respect to the national defense.
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Dec
03
2009
US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEYS
EUROPA AND PACIFIC THEATER
WORLD WAR TWO
The new relation of air power to strategy presents one of the distinguishing contrasts between this war and the last. Air power in the last war was in its infancy. The new role of three-dimensional warfare was even then foreseen by a few farsighted men, but planes were insufficient in quality and quantity to permit much more than occasional brilliant assistance to the ground forces. Air power in the European phase of this war reached a :
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Nov
29
2009
As you probably noticed it I have changed the theme of my Wordpress and I have lot of images that were used before with the other theme. I was thiking of erasing them then thought that other Military History Bloggers could maybe use them for their Blogs.
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Oct
06
2009
Category : Army Air Forces, XIX TAC
During August the groups under operational control of this Command flew a total of 12292 fighter-bomber sorties. One 114 aircraft were lost, but many of the pilots bailed out safely over friendly territory or found their way back through enemy lines. Our pilots claimed 163 enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat and 66 on the ground.
Complete claims follow :
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Sep
21
2009
Category : Army Air Forces, XIX TAC
12.000 Fighter and Bomber Sorties, XIX Tactical Air Command’s First Month of Operations in Support of the US Third Army in France.
Content
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Notes on Organization, Tactics, and Technique
- Missions of the XIX Tactical Air Command
- The Background, In Brief
- Air Operations Day by Day
- Five Accompanying Maps
- Recapitulation
- Annex : Map Showing Location of Units
Jul
31
2009
Category : Army Air Forces, Plane Engines
Amakaze, Tokyo Gasu Denki
- Type : Amakaze
- Country : Japan
- Configuration : Nine-cylinder air-cooled radial
- Cylinders :
- Bore : 130-MM
- Stroke : 150-MM
- Capacity : 17.900 CC
- Compression : 5.2 to 1
- Length : 1109-MM
- Diameter : 1272-MM
- Weight : 326-KG dry
- Power : 360-HP
- Revolutions : 2100-RPM
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Jul
02
2009
On August 8 1934, the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) tendered a proposal for a multi-engined bomber to replace the Martin B-10. Requirements were that it would carry a “useful bombload” at an altitude of 10000-F (3000-M) for ten hours with a top speed of at least 200-MPH (320-KMH). They also desired, but did not require, a range of 2000-M (3200-KM) and a speed of 250-MPH (400-KMH). The Air Corps were looking for a bomber capable of reinforcing the air forces in Hawaii, Panama, and Alaska. The competition would be decided by a “fly-off” at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.
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Jun
24
2009
This Airplane, which was during and after World War Two the most terrible looking flying bananas constructed in the United States, was one of the best Fighter Planes. You can ask anyone who had the chance to take this monster up into the air and you will never meet the usual slang answers like : just a piece of crap or even a this thing was baddest that a pain into the ass.
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Jun
07
2009
Category : Army Air Forces
The Douglas TBD Devastator was a torpedo bomber of the USN (United States Navy), ordered in 1934, first flying in 1935 and entering service in 1937. At that point, it was the most advanced aircraft flying for the USN and possibly for any navy in the world. However, the fast pace of aircraft development caught up with it, and by the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the TBD was already outdated. It performed well in some early battles, but in the Battle of Midway the Devastators launched against the Japanese fleet were almost totally wiped out. The type was immediately withdrawn from front line service, replaced by the Grumman TBF Avenger.
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May
06
2009
Should you willing to be part of this project and make sure we will stay long enough to find these Airmen, just use the Donation panel.
Under advises and direction of American researchers, an International Group of French, Belgian and American researchers are seeking the true crash site of an unaccounted-for American B-17 Bomber that crashed in the immediate vicinity of Troyes, France, on 6 September, 1943. It was one of seven Army Air Force Bombers that crashed over an area stretching from Troyes to Voise near Chartres, France.
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Apr
18
2009
442nd Bombardment Squadron December 1944. (SECRET)
CO Hq 442nd Bomb Sqdn
442nd Bombardment Squadron
320th Bomb Group (M)
31 December 1944
APO # 374 INITIALS
5 January 1944 / SUBJECT: Historical Records
TO : Commanding General, 1st Tactical Air Force (Through Channels). ATTENTION : HISTORIAN.
Mar
14
2009
Category : Army Air Forces
This is the second part of this study on the United States Army Air Force in World War Two. This part contains the list of the Air Force Groups.
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Mar
14
2009
Category : Army Air Forces
At the peak of its strength in World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) had more than 2.400.000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and radio operators, clerks and typists, artists and flautists, teachers, mechanics, statisticians, and engineers-for it took many talents and skills to conduct and support the war in the air. All these persons, from privates to generals, had to be welded into an organization capable of giving direction and coordination to their diverse activities. For combat the men were formed into squadrons, and squadrons into groups. Above the groups were wings, and wings were organized into commands, and commands into the 16 air forces of the AAF. The upper part of the structure had to be built while the war was on, but the foundation WAS old. Some of the squadrons, two of the groups, and one wing had combat records from the First World War. One squadron, the oldest in the Air Force, could trace its history back to 1913.
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Feb
08
2009
Category : Army Air Forces, Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese home islands during World War II. The mission was notable in that it was the only operation in which United States Army Air Forces bombers were launched from a US Navy aircraft carrier. It was the longest combat mission ever flown by the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. The Doolittle Raid demonstrated that the Japanese home islands were vulnerable to Allied air attack and it provided an expedient outlet for US retaliation for Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941.
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Feb
05
2009
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After the landing in Normandy, followed by some weeks later with the landing in the Provence (Sourth France), the US Army Air Force started to move ahead it’s Airfields to reduce the fly distances between the bombing targets assigned in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany and the home’s Airfields in the UK.
This started with the North part of France on Jun 7 1944 then in the South part when the troops landed on the beaches.
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Feb
03
2009
Army Air Forces Station
Guide to the Stations Where US Army Air Forces Personnel Served in the United Kingdom During World War II
Compiled by : Captain Barry J. Anderson, USAF
Corrected & Encoded : Gunter G. Gillot Jr, Foxmaster Publishing
Wanted : any photos related to the planes, air bases, personnels and paper which could make a great photos gallery to go aside this huge post !
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Feb
02
2009
Category : B-17 #42-97904
Dear Gunter
I am in the middle of a new research that has found that the dead crew of a crashed B-17 were miss-identified and are buried under the names of another crew that died that day.
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