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AIR SUPERIORITY Kursk, USSR, battle at: 195, 206 Kunune, Japan defense of: 411 raid on: 430 Kushikino, Japan. isolation of: 434 Kutakhov, P., Chief Marshal of Aviation: 205 Kuter, Laurence S. on air power: 7, 15, 245, 261, 262 deputy, Northwest African Air Forces: 247 establishes Allied Support Command 240 faces air support problems: 240-242 on role of bombers: 327 Kwajalein, Marshall Islands amphibious landing on: 397 U.S. base at: 399 Kwangtung Army, surrender of: 209 Kyushu. Japan air base at: 360, 418, 428 antiaircraft on: 411 defense of: 408, 432 invasion plans for: 433. 434, 435 raid on: 419. 430 La Fauconnerie, Tunisia, U.S. forward base at: 239 La Maddalena, Sardinia, attack of naval base at: 258 Labrador, B-29s based at 465 Lae, New Guinea amphibious assault on: 351 attacked by Allies: 338-339 seized by Japanese: 337 Win, John, assessment of Israeli successes: 600 LnRe Chumplain, USS. USMC aircraft strike Korea from: 482 Lake Kinneret: 591 Lake Khasan, Mongolia, Soviet confrontation with China at: 183 Lmchester, F. W., estimates aircraft firepower: 471 Leos enemy troops bombed in: 538 radar bomb directors based in: 538 sanctuary zone near: 515 Lapchinskiii A. N. aircraft designer: 27 on military air power: 187 L'Armee de 1'Air. See also French Air Force. against Germany: 24-25 failure in air superiority of, 1940: 21-22 independent air force of France: 20-21 squadrons on Israeli soil: 570 strategic bombardment in: 23 Laskov. Chaim, commander, IAF: 567 League of Nations: 9 Lear, Ben commander, Army Ground Forces: 261 opposes separate air force control: 261 Lebanon. invasion of: 599-600 Lee, Willis A., research on kamikaze: 441 Leigh-Mallory. Trafford on air superiority: 300 Commander-in-Chief. AEAF: 300 commander, No. 12 Group: 125, 130 killed: 142 and Park controversy: 158-159, 169 in POINTBLANK: 300. 302-304 on target priority: 309 LeMay. Curtis E. commander, XX Bomber Command 405, 413 emphasizes low-level night raids: 425 on Japanese tactics: 406 on safety of combat missions over Japan: 426 Lend-Lease to USSR, Soviet view of: 211 Leningrad: 197 defense of: 205. 206 German assault on: 188 kingkm, USS: 341 sunk: 330 Leyte, Philippine Islands Allied airfield developed on: 361-362 Allied plans to recapture: 357, 359 beachhead under attack 360 kamikuze pilots at: 359 invasion of: 360-363, 370-371, 400 Libya Montgomery's forces in: 239, 246 in Yom Kippur War: 588, 593, 594 Lingayen, Luzon, landing on: 370 Lithuania, Soviet open path to: 206 Liverpool, England, protection of: 94 Lloyd, Hugh P.. commander, Northwest African Coastal Air Force: 347 London, England 656
INDEX in Battle of Britain: 100, 124, 130, 132. 133-140, 611 raids on: 279 Long Island, USS, aircraft horn: 333-334 Long-Range Bomber Aviation (Soviet): 185 failure of, 1941: 190 merged into Red Army Air Force: 192-193 Louisiana maneuvers: 226 Lufberry Circle: 553 Lujljlotten: 126, 306-307. See also Air Forces (German). Luftgau 3: 306 Luftkiegsakademk 68 LuJiwaffe: 290. See also German Air Force. Air Signal Corps oE 204 and air ~~periorihl: 70-71, 210-212, 612 air superiority. North Africa: 225,232 airfields attack& 290, 300, 303-306 airfields in France: 160. 271 assessment of, May 1944: 273-275, 616-617, 623 attrition oE 294-298, 313-314 in Battle of Britain: 96-103, 149. 153. 166- 167 creat& 30 develops airfields in North Africa: 225 downfall OE 208, 210-212. 313-314 on Eastern Front: 196-197, 200. 201, 210-211 effect of Spanish Civil War on: 34-36, 70. 72-74. 181. 568. 622 experience oE 189, 296 experiments in: 72 fighters compared with Allid 277-278 force structure in: 276 over France: 84-87 High Command: 304, 305, 306. 309 impact of oil attacks on: 297 losses May-Jun 1940 86 May-Sep 1940 103, 126. 127. 128, 138 Jul-Sep 1940 102 Jul-Dw 1941: 211 1943: 299 June 1944: 307 Ardennes: 83 fighter pilot: 99, 102. 211 mission of, against Britain: 95 in Operation OVERLORD 306-307 operations in North Africa: 229, 239 overconfidence of: 101, 139, 618 paralyzed for Operation OVERLORD: 271-273, 306-307, 311 pilot attrition in: 296, 299 over Poland: 76-78, 612, 613 priorities in air superiority: 611 radio security in: 308-309. 312 role in blitzkrieg: 31-32, 67. 117. 165 SHOW-like system used by: 479 strategy oE 312 strength of 1933: 70 1939: 33, 68, 75 1940: 75. 79, 85. 91-92. 102. 149, 188 1944: 294 strikes against Allied airfields 81-82 British airfields 126. 129. 133 Czech airfields: 74-75, 613 USSR: 179. 184. 188, 189 Superiority OE 24-26, 40, 65, 75-76, 90, 179. 278, 493 in Scandinavia: 78-79 in USSR: 188-192, 195. 614 in supply role: 197 tactics: 73, 119, 128-129, 163, 195-196. 278, 622 threat to Great Britain: 38. 89-90. 117, 123 in three-front war: 257. 278 training in: 198, 211, 275-276 unwilling to engage forces, Tunisia: 260 Luzon, Philippine Islands Allied plans to recapture: 357, 364 invasion of: 370-371 Japanese aisields on ~aided: 362, 364-365 Japanese power on 362 USN task force raids on: 360. 370 Lyme Bay, England 96 MacArthur. Douglas: 362, 396, 434 commander, SWPA 324, 337. 363-365 commander, UN forces in Korea: 459, 461. 465 657
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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 method whi
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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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BATTLE OF BRITAIN way to the far we
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN cross-Channel att
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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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BATTLE OF BRITAIN fully conversant
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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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SOVIET AIR FORCE Stalin’s forced
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NORTHWEST AFRICA The failure of the
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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 sorties a day. By J
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AIR SUPERIORITY missing, while they
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AIR SUPERIORITY ance from the enemy
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AIR SUPERIORITY History Institute a
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AIR SUPERIORITY resistant to battle
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AIR SUPERIORITY More specifically,
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AIR SUPERIORITY Republic’s hefty
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FIGURE 6-2 Allied Command Structure
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AIR SUPERIORITY The increased stren
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AIR SUPERIORITY At the time, it was
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AIR SUPERIORITY It was the responsi
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AIR SUPERIORITY Luftwaffe prior to
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AIR SUPERIORITY of enemy reinforcem
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AIR SUPERIORITY ized fighter-bomber
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AIR SUPERIORITY 16. USSBS, MAD, “
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AIR SUPERIORITY Box 135. Hughes, ho
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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 Guadalcanal in the
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AIR SUPERIORITY 20, escort carrier
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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 achieved, and in de
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AIR SUPERIORITY Sooner or later in
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AIR SUPERIORITY ning of the Leyte c
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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 are the History of
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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 ority over the stra
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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 enemy aircraft were
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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 more modest report
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AIR SUPERIORITY enemy’s defense s
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AIR SUPERIORITY in the spring of 19
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AIR SUPERIORITY With the intensific
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AIR SUPERIORITY time. This inabilit
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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 10, at a cost of on
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AIR SUPERIORITY On the morning of A
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AIR SUPERIORITY that day; 3 Mustang
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AIR SUPERIORITY above them and lost
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AIR SUPERIORITY Force was finally a
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AIR SUPERIORITY Conclusions This ch
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AIR SUPERIORITY Allied air power. T
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AIR SUPERIORITY In achieving de fuc
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AIR SUPERIORITY The Fourth FI Wing
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AIR SUPERIORITY General Weyland, FE
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AIR SUPERIORITY Fighter Weapons Rev
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AIR SUPERIORITY The F-105 Thunderch
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TABLE 10-3 Aircraft Assigned to Sou
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AIR SUPERIORITY never threatened U.
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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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11 The Israeli Experience Brereton
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Page 673 and 674: INDEX 308-313 in Southeast Asia: 62
Page 675: INDEX Japan: 386 Kenley. England, a
Page 679 and 680: INDEX created: 246 strength of: 256
Page 681 and 682: INDEX Nile River Israeli air attack
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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