Case Studies in the Achievement of Air Superiority - Air Force ...

AIR SUPERIORITY
Imperial Council (Japan), effects of
atomic bomb attack on: 209
Imperial General Headquarters (Japan):
387. 429
on air defense of homeland 407-408,
415-416, 427
creates Air General Army: 410
Imperial Japanese Army: 313, 435
alerted for attacks on homeland 401
antiaircraft guns in: 410-411
assessment of: 385
in caves of Iwo Jima: 613
cut off from resupply at hytc 364
defending homeland 402
General Staff of: 368
objectives in Far East: 389
positions in New Guinea attacked: 352
reinforcements on byte: 361
requirements for kamikaze training
Imperial Japanese army air forces. See
also Aircraft types (Japanese);
Kamikaze.
abandon air defense of Japan:
426-429
aircraft compared with USAAF: 327,
333, 340
assessment OE 385
attack Henderson Field 334
attack on Pearl Harbor: 328
base at Rabaul: 332-333. 335,
338-339
Battle for byte: 360-363
capitulation of: 429437
defense of Bougainville: 345-348
defense of Hollandia: 356
defense of Wewak: 349-354
doctrine of: 407
faces USSR: 209
tight for hwx 364-365
on Formosa: 360
on Guadalcanak 334,337, 339
loss of air superiority: 439-440
losses:
defending homeland 400401, 404,
415, 419, 422-426
Iwo Jima: 399
Pearl Hark 331
Rabaul: 342-344, 346. 347
SWPA 367
Wewak: 351, 352
World War Ik 416-417. 419
on Mindanao: 359
on Munda: 342
order of battle: 437
pilot losses of: 348, 416
reinforcements in Philippines: 357,
359, 363
sink USS Lexington: 330
strength of, Wewak: 349
strength of, in defense of homeland
415, 436
tactics: 413
training program in: 328. 330, 348
Imperial Japanese Navy: 389, 393, 394
assessment of Allies: 385
defeated at byte Gulf: 361
Guadalcanal: 335
kamikaze pilots of: 417
strength of, 1943
submarines of: 434435
Imperial Japanese navy air forces
abandon air defense of Japan:
426-429
aircraft in: 42
alerted for attacks on homeland 401
capitulation of: 430, 436, 437
defending homeland 402, 415416,
422-426
doctrine: 407
loss of air superiority by: 439-440
losses, Pearl Harbor: 331
losses, World War II: 416
strength of, Aug 1945: 436437
training in: 43
Inchon, Korea, amphibious assault on:
461, 462, 465
lndependence, USS, in aircraft strike on
Bougainville: 346
Indian Ocean, Japanese raid on: 331
Indonesia. See Dutch East Indies.
Inner Mongolia, Japanese forces in: 208
Institute for Defense Analysis. policy on
South Viehuun: 508-509
Intelligence. See also Wild Weasel.
in Battle of Britain: 165-166, 620
British 308-309
conquest of Tunisia: 248,251
estimates on invasion of Japan: 434,
435
estimates on Okinawa: 418
Israeli: 565. 624
key to North Vietnamese defense
system: 541
in Korea: 481, 489,491
network to intercept bombers: 327
in Operation OVERLORD 303.
652