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AIR SUPERIORITY Corps Aviation (Soviet): 185 Corregidor, Luzon, U.S. defeat at: 394 Cot, Pierre, rearmament program of: 21 Council of People's Commissars formed: 184 replaced by State Committee for Defense: 184-185 Counterair: ix principles oE 5 sorties in Korean War: 486-487, 494-495 tactics in Korean War: 492-493 Cracow. Poland, weather reports from: 312 Craven, Wesley F.: 438 Crete: 90 Croyden, England 128 Cunningham, Andrew commander, Allied naval forces, Mediterranean: 233, 246 in Tunisian campaign: 260 Cyprus, British bombing of Egypt from: 572 Czech Air Force, immobilization of: 513 Czechoslovakia, invasion oE 74-76, 613 D-day: 272, 314. See also Operation OVERLORD. air superiority on: 279. 299, 304 Da Nang. Vietnam TACC at: 534, 541, 543 USAF base at: 517. 523. 536 Dal'nebombardirmochnaya Aviatsiya (DBA). See Long-Range Bomber Aviation (Soviet). Damascus. Syria: 575, 592 action along road to: 593 Damour, Lebanon, Israeli drive toward: 599 Darwin, Australia Allied air base attacked 337 strikes from, against East Indies: 368 Davidson, Howard C.. commander, Seventh Air Force: 396 Dayan, Moshe, Chief of Staff, Israeli Defense Forces: 571. 573, 591 Dayton, Ohio: 47 de Gaulle, Charles, in Battle of France: 26 Deane, John R., on Soviet strength, 1945: 208 Dead Sea: 565 The Defence of Britain: 164 The Defence of the United Kingdom: 142 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ): 513 around Hanoi-Haiphong: 512 NVA invades South Vietnam across: 512, 546-547 Democratic Republic of Vietnam increased U.S. pressure against: 506 supported and advised by USSR: 505 Demyask, USSR action at: 197 airlift of troops from: 210-211 Denmark, German operations against: 78-79, 116 Department of Defense (U.S.), policy on North Vietnam: 507-509. See also Secretary of Defense. Deullii Albert: 4-5 Deversoir, Israeli bridgehead near: 596 Dictionary of Military and Association Terms (JCS Pub 1): vii Die Luftkriegfuhrung: 68 Diechman, Paul, Chief of Staff, Fliegerkorps II: 127 Dinant. France, German forces at: 83 Divisions (British) 1st Armoured 249 50th: 249 Divisions (U.S.) 1st Armored: 242, 260 1st Cavalry: 462 9th: 260 77th: 363 Djedeida, Tunisia Allies stalled at: 224 Dobodura. New Guinea Allied air base at: 339. 341. 349, 368-369 Allied attacks from: 351 engineers at: 368-369 seizure of: 366 Dogfights. See also Combat air patrol; Operation BOLO. and air superiority: 609 Egyptian-Israeli: 572, 576 in Six-Day War: 579-581 in Southeast Asia: 544, 553.554, 623 in War of Attrition: 584-586 in Yom Kippur War: 593, 595 Doncherry, France, operations at 83-84 Doolittle, James H. on air power: 47 644
INDEX commander, Eighth Air Force: 285 commander, Twelfth Air Force: 227, 233, 235-236 commander, Northwest African Strategic Air Forces: 247 on performance of air power in Tunisia: 243 plan to attack enemy air transport: 251 plan for victory in Northwest Africa: 235-236 raid on Tokyo: 390. 391-396, 400 Domier, and rearmament in Germany: 32-33 Douglas, Sholto Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Middle East: 246 assumes command of Fighter Command 142 Deputy Chief, Air Staff: 161 Douglass, Robert W., commander, Seventh Air Force: 397 Douhet, Giulio: 40 theories of: 7. 10-11. 18-19, 27, 47. 100. 609 in France: 22 in Israel: 570 in Japan: 41, 42 Dover, England, antiaircraft defenses at: 167 Dowding, Hugh on aircraft technology: 157-158 assessment of: 147 on British air defense: 155, 169 Commander, Fighter Command: 94, 116. 117, 120, 123, 124, 127, 130, 132-133. 140. 152, 159, 164-165, 166 encourages development of radar: 154-155 faces pilot problem: 144, 146 relieved of command: 142, 159 secret report on Battle of Britain: 143 strategy of: 129, 133. 135, 141, 143, 149 Driffield, England, bomber station at 127 Dunkirk, France air battle over: 84-85 evacuation of: 16, 165 Dupuy. Trevor, on Yom Kippur War: 596 Dutch Air Force: 335 Dutch East Indies, Japanese occupation oE 328 Duxford, England, airfield at: 132 Eaker. Ira C. commander, Allied Air Forces, Mediterranean: 285 commander, Eighth Air Force: 280, 284-285 efforts to execute Operation POINTBLANK. 280-281 pressed for quick results: 283 on role of bombers: 327 East Indies Allied strikes against: 368 Japanese cease resistance in: 357 Japanese reinforcements from: 362 oil resources of: 323 Eastem Air Command (RAF) abolished at Casablanca: 246-247 aircraft strength, 1942 227 losses, Dec 1942 229 mission of, Northwest Africa: 238-239 plans to destroy enemy air transports: 251 struggle with doctrine, North Africa: 225-227 teamwork with: 233, 235-236 Eastern Army Command (Japanese): 395, 408, 410 Eastern District Army (Japanese), reassigned: 395 Eastern Front: 199. 312 air supremacy on: 212-213 Allied role on: 211 German aircraft on: 200 German withdrawal from: 192 Luftwaffe resources on: 210 Soviet aircraft on: 201 Soviet victory on: 196-197 Eastern Task Force, in race for Tunisia: 228 ECCM (electronic counter countermeasures): 536-537. See also COLLEGE EYE Iron Hank Radar; Wild Weasel. North Korean development of: 481 -482 against North Vietnamese SAMs: 552, 618 significance of in Southeast Asia: 556 ECM (electronic countermeasures):
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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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3 The Royal Air Force and the Battl
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN way to the far we
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FIGURE 3-1 Daily Fighter Command So
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN because they were
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SOVIET AIR FORCE Stalin’s forced
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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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NORTHWEST AFRICA Allied Air Support
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AIR SUPERIORITY twenty-eight of the
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AIR SUPERIORITY 52. Memo by Spaatz,
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FIGURE 6-2 Allied Command Structure
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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 During the fighting
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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 The preinvasion ach
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AIR SUPERIORITY be pedestrian, and
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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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Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Commander i
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AIR SUPERIORITY The Japanese Homela
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AIR SUPERIORITY enemy’s defense s
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AIR SUPERIORITY invasion, they reli
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AIR SUPERIORITY Force was finally a
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Page 693 and 694: INDEX role of: 165-166 Union of Sov
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