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Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office

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<strong>Piercing</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Fog</strong><br />

wea<strong>the</strong>r as factor in attacks on, 338<br />

wea<strong>the</strong>r problems encountered, 344,<br />

346-47<br />

Japanese <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong><br />

information available in Germany, 372<br />

Japanese Army<br />

discounts value of intelligence analyses,<br />

292<br />

underestimates of strength of, 29-3 1<br />

Japanese Army <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong><br />

gasoline storage capacity in Philippines,<br />

284<br />

Japanese Combined Fleet, 247<br />

Japanese Naval <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong><br />

defenses of oil refineries, 285<br />

kamikaze of, 287,290<br />

TAttack <strong>Force</strong>, 287-88,291<br />

Japanese Navy<br />

gasoline storage by, 284<br />

Japanese Order of Battle Bulletins, 105-6<br />

Jet aircraft, 241,243-46<br />

JICPOA <strong>Air</strong> Estimates Group, 328<br />

Jockey Committee, 19695,241,246<br />

Joffre, J. J., 15<br />

Johnson, Virgil O., 361<br />

Joint Army-Navy Board, 40, 116<br />

Joint Army-Navy Planning Committee,<br />

116<br />

Joint Chiefs of Staff<br />

Ad Hoc Committee, 368<br />

ambiguous position of Arnold and AAF,<br />

389<br />

chooses COA target list for B-29,333<br />

creates Joint Target Group (JTG), 9,<br />

322<br />

Joint Target Analysis Group, 368-69<br />

Joint Intelligence Board, 113<br />

Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean<br />

Areas (JICPOA), 324-25<br />

Joint Intelligence Collection Agency<br />

(JICA), 124, 303<br />

Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), 116<br />

Joint Oil Targets Committee, 239,241<br />

Joint Photo Reconnaissance Committee,<br />

89-90<br />

Joint Strategic Committee, 116<br />

Joint Target Group, 369-70,37677,380,<br />

387<br />

Joint War Plans Committee, 366<br />

Jones, Bryon Q., 36-37<br />

Jones, R. V., 222<br />

Kamikaze, 287,290<br />

492<br />

Kfumh, Theodore von, 7,373<br />

Kasserine Pass, 166<br />

Kelly, Wilkes D., 308<br />

Kendall, Douglas, 88<br />

Kenney, George C., 9, 108,112<br />

battle for Leyte, 285-88<br />

becomes air commander, Southwest<br />

Pacific, 253-54,256<br />

bombs Rabaul airfields, 254, 265, 269,<br />

415<br />

diary noting information sources, 261,<br />

263<br />

interprets intelligence for major victory<br />

at Bismarck Sea, 265-68<br />

Mindoro landing, 289, 291<br />

presses for assignment of B-29, 332<br />

requests B-29s for oil production<br />

attacks, 28685<br />

skillful use of intelligence by, 277,29 1,<br />

414-16<br />

takes Hollandia, 279-83<br />

Kesselring, Albrecht, 165, 167<br />

Kimmel, Husband, 114-15<br />

Kindleberger, Charles, 68, 23 1, 233<br />

King, Ernest J., 316, 365<br />

Kinkaid, Thomas D., 278<br />

Kingston, Charles T., 344<br />

Koenig, Egmont F., 127-28<br />

Koenig, Theodore, 33-34<br />

Korea<br />

target study of, 364<br />

Kroner, Hayes A., 1 13<br />

Krueger, Walter, 287<br />

Kuter, Laurence S., 48,91,329-30,366<br />

Lamont, Thomas W., 152<br />

Lanphier, Thomas G., 153<br />

Launch sites, V-weapons, 217-22<br />

Lawrence, Ernest O., 386<br />

Layton, Edwin T., 270<br />

Leach, W. Barton, 153<br />

League of Nations, 52<br />

Leahy, William D., 103,385<br />

Lee, Raymond E., 32,47<br />

Lee, Robert M., 78,236<br />

Leigh-Mallory, Trafford L. 15,212-13<br />

LeMay, Curtis E., 320,335,336<br />

509th Composite and, 382-83<br />

abandons precision bombing, 418<br />

becomes Chief of Staff, Twentieth <strong>Air</strong><br />

<strong>Force</strong>, 346<br />

comments on Japanese wea<strong>the</strong>r, 386<br />

estimates of Japanese weakness, 375

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