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

AIR SUPERIORITY
consolidates hold on northern New
Guinea: 349
doubts about holding Korea: 466
prepares for invasion of Philippines:
359
Machine guns (aircraft): 1, 2, 3, 40,
157. 200, 250
20-mm: 141, 157, 490, 491, 527,537,
540, 547, 554, 583
23-mm: 467, 468. 527, 571. 576
30-mm: 537
30-mm DEFA 576, 583, 594
37-IIUTI: 467, 468, 571
40-mm Bofors: 167
SO-cak 157, 470, 488, 490. 491
.303-inch 141, 157-158. 167
Mach. Cuthbert, commander, No. 2
Group: 163
Madang. New Guinea, Japanese bases
at: 341
Madrid, Spain, bombardment of 34
Maintenance Command (RAF),
established: 38
Makin, Gilberts, U.S. bases at: 399
Maknassy. Tunisia, captured by Allies:
248
Malaya, occupied by Japan: 389
Malinovsky. R. Ya., commander, 12th
Air Army: 209
Maloelap Atoll, U.S. base on: 397
Malta, British bomb Egypt from: 572
Manchuria: 434, 477
CCAF sanctuary in: 477
Chinese MiGs in: 466-467, 478, 485,
491, 496
Japanese conflict in: 41, 42-43, 52.
209
Japanese reinforcements to: 436
role of, Korean War: 454-455. 465
Manston, England, attacked: 127
Manchuko. Japanese forces abandon:
208
Mar, New Guinea: American troops
occupy: 357
Matcus Island, Japan: 391
Mareth Line
Allies break through 248-250
Rommel's army at: 242, 247
Margate, England German
reconnaissance of: 279
Mariana Islands
B-29 command in: 383. 404
campaign in: 383, 397
defense of: 459
Japanese base at: 323
strikes against Japan from: 427, 433,
438
Turkey Shoot: 348
U.S. base in: 439
Marilinin, New Guinea, Allied air base
established at: 349, 351
Marine Air Group. radar-equipped
aircraft from: 362
Marine Air Wings, 2d 430
Marine Corps Tactical Data System,
integrated with other networks: 543
Markham Valley, New Guinea
Allied bombers lost in: 357
Australian move through: 351
creation of Allied bases in: 367
Marshall, Andrew, Director of Net
Assessment, OSD: v
Marshall, George C.: 246, 390
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army: 236
on command of air power: 261-264
on Operation POINTBLANK:
284-285
supports single air command,
Northwest Africa: 236
Marshall Islands
amphibious landings on: 397
Japanese defensive perimeter in: 323
U.S. air base at: 399
Marshall, S. L. A.
on air superiority, Israel: 570
on Israeli and Egyptian pilots: 571
Martlesham Heath, England 127, 128
Mason, R. A.
on Egyptian flying skills: 576
on Israeli aircraft losses: 592
Matmata Mountains, Tunisia, on Mareth
Line: 249
Matsuyama, Japan. air strike on: 421
McConnell. John P.
on base security: 523-524
Chief of Staff, USAF: 523
McKinnon, Martin H. participates in
preparing FM 100-20: 262
McNabb, V. C.. on close air support:
241
McNamara, Robert S.
places constraints on bombing: 515
Secretary of Defense: 508-509
Mecozzi. Amedeo. and Douhet's
theories: 15
Mediterranean Air Command
658