Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office
Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office
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