Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office

Piercing the Fog
(MACAF), 178
Mediterranean Allied Photographic
Reconnaissance Wing (MAPRW), 87
Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force
(MASAF), 178
Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force
(MATAF), 178,180-81
Mediterranean Theater, 173-90
Merritt, L. G., 326
Milch, Erhard, 147
Miles, Milton E., 316-18, 321, 323
Miles, Sherman, 28, 114-15
assessment of Japan’s likelihood for
attack, 53
delineation of responsibility for
intelligence, 42,44-45
technical evaluation, on, 42
Miley, A. J., 359
Miller, William A., 294
Milling, Thomas D., 14
Mining
by Fourteenth Air Force, 3 17,323
Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW),
U.K., 136-38, 155,209,220
Mitchell, William (Billy), 18-19, 19
Modeling of targets, 86
Montbatten, Louis, 358
Montgomery, Bernard, 236
Morale
German, 151
relation to overestimates of damage
claims, 148
Morse, Chandler, 145
Moss, Malcolm W., 41-42, 120, 152-53,
366-67
Munich agreement, 38
Mussolini, Benito, 177, 395
Nagasaki, Japan, 347
Nakajima Aircraft Company, 336, 338
National Defense Research Committee,
365,380
Naval Group China, 321
Naval Intelligence (OP-20-G),8
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C., 175,271
Navy and National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, 374
Navy Department
cryptanalysis by, 21
Nelson, Carl G., 313
NEPTUNE, 224,228-30,233
Neumann, John von, 380
494
New Guinea
importance of Japanese supply lines to,
265,269,416
Nimitz, Chester W., 10, 107
attack on Yamamoto, 270-71
command of, 249
creates TF 59,326
fears Japanese air force reaction to Hollandia
invasion, 280-81
infighting with MacArthur, 290
intelligence available to, 325
Ninth Air Force, 67-68, 70, 78-80, 167,
349
bombing German rail system, 214,
225-26
chief American air contributor to
OVERLORD, 226
colocated air and ground equivalent
headquarters, 232
plans for NEFTUNE, 228
relation to 3d Radio Squadron, 362
Noonan, Fred, 52
Norcross, Carl H., 128-29
Norden bombsight, 366-67
Norstad, Lauris, 184, 187, 341-42, 344,
380
champions atomic bomb, 387
North Africa
Operation TORCH, 157-69
Y intelligence and tactical air operations
in, 99
Northwest African AirForces (NAAF), 82
A-2 functions, 162
changes handling of air intelligence in
North Africa, 161
dissemination of information, 162-63
Northwest African Coastal Air Force
(NACAF), 160-61
Northwest African Photographic
Reconnaissance Wing (NAPRW), 87,
161- 62
Northwest African Strategic Air Force
(NASAF), 160
antishipping campaign, in, 166-67
launches Operation FLAX, 168-69
Northwest African Tactical Air Force
(NATAF), 160,166-68
Nuclear weapons, 346
AAF intelligence and atomic bomb,
380-88
Soviet push for, 392
O’Connor, Morgan B., 313