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Category : Army Air Forces, Strategic Bombing
Tags: 1st Flying Brigade, 1st Marines Division, 3rd Flying Division, 5th Flying Division, Admiral Ghormley, Admiral Yamamoto, Aleutians, Attu, Australia, B-17, B-29, BC-1000 TRX, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bougainville, Buna, Burma, Cape Sansapor, Caroline Islands, Celebes, Central Pacific, Chairman, China, December 7, Doolittle Raid, Dr. Louis R. Thompson, Dutch East Indies, Espiritu Santo, Fiji Islands, Finschafen, Formosa, Fourteenth Air Force, Frank A. McNamee, Franklin D'Olier, Fred Searls, Gen Douglas MacArthur, Gen Miyazaki, Germany, Gilbert Islands, Great-Britain, Guadalcanal, Guam, Gulf of Mexico, Harry L. Bowman, Hawaii, Henderson Field, Henry C. Alexander, Hiroshima, HMS Repulse, Hollandia, HSM Prince of Wales, India, Iwo Jima, J. Kenneth Galbraith, Japan, Japanese Fleet, Java, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jr, June, Kamikaze, Korea, Kuriles, Kyushu, Lae, LCI, LST, Luzon, Malaya, Manchuria, Marianas, Marilinan, Marshall Islands., Midway, Milne Bay, Monroe E. Spaght, Morotai, Munda, Nadzab, Nagasaki, Nagoya, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Okinawa, Osaka, Owen Stanley Range, P-40, Pacific, Palaus, Paul H. Nitze, Pearl Harbor, Peleliu Island, Philippines, Philippines Sea, Port Moresby, President Roosevelt, President Truman, Rabaul, Rensis Likert, Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Forces, Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Forces, Saipan, Salamaua, Samoa, San Bernardino Straits, Secretary of War, Shoho Carrier, Solomons, Soviet Union, Sumatra, Surigao, Surigao Straits, Theodore P. Wright, Tinian, Tokyo, Truk, US Strategic Bombing Surveys, USMC, USS Lexington, USS Yorktown, USS-Hornet, Wake, Walter Wilds
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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Category : Army Air Forces, Crew & Planes
Tags: Army Air Forces Papers, B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, C-47, P-26, P-36, P-38, P-40, P-51, Photos
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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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: 101st Airborne Division, Addison Road Station, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Ministry, Algiers, American Red Cross, Anthony Eden, Anvil, Anzio, Army Group's Bryanston, Associated Press, Aussies, B-17, B-29, Belgians, Berkeley Square, Bovington, Bovington Airport, Britain's West Point, British Military Assistant, British War Cabinet, Bryanston Square, Cairo, Canadians, Capri, Chesterfield Hill, Churchill, Col Ivan Cobbald, Court Calendar, Czechs, Darmouth, Dominion Prime Ministers, Duke of Norfolk, Dutch, Edgeware Road, Edward Stettinius, England, European Theater Ribbon, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Free French, Gen Charles Corlett, Gen Charles de Gaulle, Gen Maxwell Taylor, Grosvenor Square, Hackbridge Kennels, Hampton Court, Harvey Gibson, Hays Lodge, House of Lords, Hyde Park, Indians, Ireland, Irish, Italy, Kensington, King of England, LCT, London, LST, Lt Col Jimmy Gault, Luxor, Marrakech, Mayfair, Montgomery, New Zealanders, Newbury, Norfolk House, North-Africa, Norwegians, Overlord, Palestine, Paris, Park West, Piccadilly Circus, Poles, President Roosevelt, Prestwick, Richmond Park, Russian, Ruth Briggs, Salisbury, Sandhurst, Scots, Scots Guards, Sicily, Sir Louis Gregg, Snuffy Nixon, South Americans, Telegraph Cottage, Tenby, Times Square, Tooey Spaatz, Torch, Tunisia, Tunisian Victory Lunch, Welsh, Wes Gallagher, World War I, XIX Corps, Yorkshiremen
Suddenly the plane shot upward, roaring away from the airfield. We all smashed back against our seats. Maybe the wheels won’t come down, someone said in a small voice. Snuffy Nixon, the navigator, stuck his head in the cabin and broke the silence. Don’t worry, folks. I just got mixed up in my figuring and picked the wrong country. Not France ! we cried. No, said Snuffy, it’s not France. But it’s not England, either. He grinned over at me. This is Kay’s home. We almost landed in southern Ireland !
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On one Army Air Force Bombardment Mission planned in the vicinity of Berlin, no German fighter attacked the Bomber Group as well as the escort : P-40, P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang Long Range.
On their way back to England, another order was send for the escort planes : “turn into ashes everything that the German Army, Luftwaffe and Marine, could use to fight the Allies, in the Air, on the Field as well as everywhere these could hide”.
This was the order and this was what the escort did that day.
See the movie.
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Category : Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
Tags: 17 Fighter Sq, 3 Staffel J/88, 303 Sqn, 50th Fighter Group, 54 Fighter Sq, 56th Fighter Sq, Argentine Air Force, Asturias, B-17, B-26, Battle of Britain, Belgium, Bf 110, Boleslaw Drobinski, Boulogne, Brest, Brillanten, Brunswick, Chatham, Commercial Air Transport School, Condor Legion, Count Manfred Czernin, Dover, Ebro, Eichenlauben, England, EprGr 210, Fighter Pilot School, Folkestone, French Campaign, Fw 190, General der Jagdflieger, Germany, Geschwader Adjutant, Geschwaderstab, Gneisenau, Gruppenkommandeur, Harold Bird-Wilson, Heinkel He-51, Henschel H 123, I./JG 51, II./JG 51, III./JG 26, Invasion of Poland, JG 27, JV 44, Krefeld, Lechfeld, Liège, Lt Al Deere, Lt Francis Dawson-Paul, Lt James J. Finnegan, Luftwaffe, Margate, Martlesham Heath, ME-262, München, New Zealand, Oberst Werner Mölders, Oberstleutnant, Operation Donnerkeil, P-47, P/O “Johnny” Allen, Prinz Eugen, RAF Hurricanes, Reichsmarschal Herman Göring, Reim, Ritter Kreuz, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Scharnhorst, Schleissheim, Schwerten, Spain, Spitfires, Staffelkapitän, Stuka, Tegernsee, Teruel, Thames Estuary, Werner Mölders, Westerholt
Adolf Galland was born on Mar 19 1912 in Westerholt, Germany. At the age of 17 he started flying gliders then began flying for the Lufthansa after graduating from the Commercial Air Transport School at Brunswick. This was at a time when the German Air Arm was created, following Hitler’s rise to power, and students were sent clandestinely to the Soviet Union and Italy. In Feb 1934, he joined the Luftwaffe, an accomplished both, pilot and instructor, at the Fighter Pilot School München – Schleissheim. By Apr 1935 he was a fighter pilot with Jagdgeschwader 2 ‘Richtofen’.
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