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AIR SUPERIORITY Central Task Force, operation at Oran: 227 Ceylon, Japanese raids on: 331 Chain Home stations installation of: 154-155 radar tracking by: 116, 126 Chamberlain. Neville on aircraft production: 88 as Prime Minister: 158-159 Chambre, Guy la, rearmament program of: 21 Changchun. China, Soviet drive toward 209 Charleville. France. in Battle for France: 84, 85 Charlton. L. E., bomber orientation of: 614 Chekiang Province, China. bases in: 387 Chel Ha'Avir. See Israeli Air Force. Chenkiang. Province, China, threat from against Japan: 387 Chennault, Claire, develops fighter tactics: 327, 341 Chiang Kai-shek, as leader of China: 42 Chiba, Japan, air base for defense of homeland 401 Chief of Staff, USAF, on conduct of war in Southeast Asia: 508-509 Chief of U.S. Air Service, on air power, 1920s: 15 China: 52. 180, 389-390, 434, 440 American Volunteer Group in: 341 B-29 command in: 383, 406 faces possibility of nuclear strike: 494-495 forced to accept armistice: 494 intervention of in Korean War: 462, 464, 465. 484, 485 Japanese air bases in: 418 Japanese incursion in: 41-44, 383 Japanese reinforcements in: 436 poses threat to U.S. aircraft 517 sanctuary along border of: 515, 539 sympathy for: 384 US. bases in: 387, 404 China-Burma-India Theater: 399 Allied Air Forces in. 383 Chinese-American Composite Wing, role of in Pacific: 438 Chinese Army air attacks upon: 474 contained: 477, 488 crosses Yalu River: 465 proficiency of: 475 summer offensive in Korea, 1953: 495 Chinese Communist Air Force (CCAF) adversities facing Korea: 497-498 defend airfields: 479-480 directed by USSR 476, 497 fighter tactics: 472473,482,486,488, 491. 493 GCI capability of 492 in Korean War: 461. 496, 510 MiG pilots in: 465, 468. 472-474, 490-491 shortcomings of: 466-467, 474-475 strategy of: 492 strength of, Korea: 477 Chinese Nationalist Government: 384 pilots of: 491 Chodo Island, North Korean radar station on: 492 Chon&, Korea, "MiG Alley" border at: 455 Chosan, Korea, "MiG Alley" border: 455, 466 Chott El Fedjadj, Tunisia, action near: 249 Churchill, Marlborough. on air superiority: 7 Churchill, Winston: 123, 139-140, 141-142, 143, 155. 159 on air superiority in Tunisia: 243 at Casablanca: 246-247 on cross-channel invasion: 89, 90 Minister of Defense: 165 Prime Minister: 117, 158. 159, 170 on war: 132-133, 147 CINCPAC. See Commander-inchief, Pacific. Clark Field, Luzon. U.S. raid on: 365 Clausewitz, Carl von on air superiority: vii on war: 53 Clay, Lucius D.. commander, PACAF 547 Close air support: viii-ix. 225-226, 300 and air superiority: 239 on Iwo Jma: 407 in Korea: 475, 493 in Lufhyaffe: 66. 75, 87 on Luzon: 365, 371 in Northwest Africa: 240-244 in WS: 30, 187 in Yom Kippur War: 589. 591. 593, 598 642
INDEX Coastwatchers in New Guinea: 366 in Solomons: 334, 343. 366 in SWPA: 340 cochran. Philip commander. 58th Fighter Squadron: 240 on ground support tactics: 21 Colier, Basil, history on British defense: 142 COLLEGE EYE, early warning aircraft in Southeast Asia: 528. 537. See also BIG EYE, Radar. Cologne, Germany: 161 raids on: 163 COMAIRSOLS. strike Japanese airfields: 343-347 Combat air patrol (CAP): 355. See also counterair, Dogfights. at Bougainville: 345 at Iwo Jima: 407 over Japan: 419. 431 at Rendova: 343-344 in Southeast Asia: 537 at Tnk 399 Combat Regulatwns for Fighter Aircrafr: 187 Combined Chiefs of Staff approve unified command, Casablanca: 238 create command structure in Mediterranean: 246-247 strategy against Japan: 390-391 Combined Fleet (Japanese), prepares for Okinawa campaign: 408 Command and control. See also Allies; Combined Chiefs of Staff; Field Manual 100-20. in AAFPOA 406 aircraft in Israel: 599 Anglo-French, 1940: 82 Arab. 582 in Battle of Britain: 99, 168-169 Israel: 577 in Korea: 461, 497 in North Africa: 223-227, 233-238, 240, 245, 257 role of in air superiority: 610, 615-616, 620-621 in Southeast Asia: 518, 520, 541 in SWPA 351. 355 Command of fhe Air: 11 Command and Enrployment of Air Power (FM 100-20): 262-264, 615 Commander-in-Chief. Pacific (CINCPAC): 518, 520. See also Sharp, U. S. Grant. authority for rules of engagement: 513-514 concern for base security: 523 constraints on bombing: 515 create route packages in North Vietnam, 518 Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (COMUSMACV): 518 Commander, Pacific Air Forces (PACAF): 518, 547 commands (U.S.) 1st Air Support: 262 V Fighter: 430 W Bomber: 397. 406. 432 W Fighter: 397, 406, 421, 425, 426. 429, 430 W Interceptor: 397 VIII Fighter: 281, 287 XII Air Support: 240, 247-250. 258 XX Bomber: 405 XXI Bomber: 405.406, 407,415, 421 Commissariat of Defense, reorganizes Soviet Air Force: 193 COMUSMACV. See Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Conde Vraux airfield, German attack on: 81 coningham. Arthur commander, Northwest Tactical Air Force: 245, 247-250 commander. Western Desert Air Force: 240 at "lessons learned" conference: 243-245 supports separate command for air power: 262-264 Coral Sea Battle oE 323. 324, 396 effect of Japanese losses in: 348 U.S. victory in: 330-331 Corps (British) v 260 X: 259 Corps (French) XIX: 240, 259 corps (U.S.) II: 241, 242, 259 643
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SPECIAL STUDIES Case Studies in the
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Foreword Writing in 1978, General W
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United States Air Force Historical
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Contents Foreword .................
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Savoia-Marchetti SM-79 ............
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EC-121 in flight over South Vietnam
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Offensive Against Germany, air supe
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2 The Luftwaffe Against Poland and
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LUFTWAFFE AGAINST POLAND fighters.
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LUFTWAFFE AGAINST POLAND The Battle
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LUFTWAFFE AGAINST POLAND tary sourc
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FIGURE 3-1 Daily Fighter Command So
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FIGURE 3-4 Production and Wastage o
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FIGURE 3-5 RAF Manpower Ju139 Sept3
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NORTHWEST AFRICA The failure of the
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NORTHWEST AFRICA land forces tangle
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NORTHWEST AFRICA The Allied Air For
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I-’-i I I First Eighth Northwest
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NORTHWEST AFRICA Allied Air Support
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AIR SUPERIORITY twenty-eight of the
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AIR SUPERIORITY missing, while they
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AIR SUPERIORITY mander. The superio
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AIR SUPERIORITY History Institute a
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FIGURE 6-2 Allied Command Structure
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AIR SUPERIORITY of enemy reinforcem
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AIR SUPERIORITY 16. USSBS, MAD, “
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AIR SUPERIORITY Bibliographical Ess
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AIR SUPERIORITY ing because British
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AIR SUPERIORITY Planning for the Pa
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AUSTRALIA 326
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AIR SUPERIORITY to Japanese fighter
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AIR SUPERIORITY highly trained Japa
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AIR SUPERIORITY attacks against a s
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AIR SUPERIORITY fighters. American
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AIR SUPERIORITY During the fighting
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AIR SUPERIORITY tional Allied air f
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AIR SUPERIORITY launched no more da
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AIR SUPERIORITY the great Japanese
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AIR SUPERIORITY part to play in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY had been at Pearl H
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AIR SUPERIORITY The preinvasion ach
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AIR SUPERIORITY bringing reinforcem
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AIR SUPERIORITY Sooner or later in
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AIR SUPERIORITY Notes 1. Thomas H.
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AIR SUPERIORITY 11: The War in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY Carroll Dyer, The A
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AIR SUPERIORITY be pedestrian, and
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AIR SUPERIORITY As for the views of
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AIR SUPERIORITY January 10, 1942, t
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THE DOOLITTLE RAID, Above: One of C
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AIR SUPERIORITY Japanese critics as
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Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Commander i
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AIR SUPERIORITY The Japanese Homela
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AIR SUPERIORITY ordered to disperse
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AIR SUPERIORITY enemy’s defense s
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AIR SUPERIORITY With the intensific
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AIR SUPERIORITY the 10th Air Divisi
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AIR SUPERIORITY invasion, they reli
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AIR SUPERIORITY over the Ryukyus wi
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AIR SUPERIORITY On the morning of A
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AIR SUPERIORITY Force was finally a
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AIR SUPERIORITY Allied air power. T
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AIR SUPERIORITY General Weyland, FE
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AIR SUPERIORITY Fighter Weapons Rev
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TABLE 10-3 Aircraft Assigned to Sou
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SOUTHEAST ASIA The SA-2, however, w
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SOUTHEAST ASIA Air Force Base, Guam
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Page 679 and 680: INDEX created: 246 strength of: 256
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Page 683 and 684: INDEX 505-506, 554 air superiority
Page 685 and 686: INDEX attacks on: 460, 484 capital:
Page 687 and 688: INDEX Royal Auxiliary Air Force, fo
Page 689 and 690: INDEX Warfare: 180 Solomon Islands.
Page 691 and 692: INDEX Sugawara, Michio, commander,
Page 693 and 694: INDEX role of: 165-166 Union of Sov
Page 695 and 696: INDEX See also Air superiority. air
Page 697 and 698: INDEX 395, 408 Western Desert Air F
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