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Index Shipping campaign mission directive July 1946, antisubmarine campaign effect on los- 387 ses, 1943, 145 commands USASTAF, 346 campaign against Axis, 166-67 commands USSTAF, 172,178 Japanese, 271-72,364 competition for German secrets, 374 stoppage of Japanese, 34546 difficulties evaluating damage, 239 ULTRA information on Axis, 164-67 directive on Eighth Air Force’s mission, Short, Walter C., 114 140 Sicily directs VIII Bomber Command against Allied attacks on, 168-69 submarines, 142 use of information for sorties against directs attack on German oil industry, roads and railways, 174 23740 see also Operation HUSKY directs or controls Eighth, Fifteenth, Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army, Ninth, 205 180 establishes HQ NAAF, 161 Signal Security Agency, 361 intelligence requirements of, 112 Signals intelligence (SIGINT), 57-58, 62 jet production targeting, 244-45 American units in Mediterranean, 180 lessons of Mediterranean theater learned Far East operations, 106-9 by, 406-7 forces, 98 oil campaign, on, 213 independent service units created by opposition to antisubmarine policy, 145 American tactical air forces, 98 persuades Eisenhower to bomb petrolow-grade signal interception and appli- leum industry, 410 cation by, 94 photoreconnaissance and, 83, 89 responsibilities divided between War prewar air estimate by, 47 and Navy departments, 102 readiness of air intelligence, on, 40 role during invasion of Sicily and Italy, strategic air forces’ priorities, 1944,205 176 target priorities of, 155 value against GAF, 230-3 1 transportation system bombing, 412 Sino- American Cooperative Organization ULTRA access, 66 (SACO), 316-17 Spanish Civil War, 35-36 Sixth Army, 28 1,283,287,295 Special Intelligence Bulletin, 108 SKF (Swedish firm), 153 Special Operations Executive, British Slessor, John C., 46 in CBI, 310 Smith, Truman, 33,35 Special security officers (SSOs), 65-73 Smith, Wilfred J., 313 covers of, 67 Solomon Islands, 263 recordkeeping by, 68 defense of, 270 role in air force organizations, 358 Sorenson, Edgar P., 7, 1 17, 122-24, 129, Speer, Albert, 147,407-8,410 152,350,360,365-66 Squadrons (numbered) Sources of information 1st Radio (Mobile), 361-62 A-2, 134-35 3d Radio, 362 COA, 153 3d Radio Detachment 3 (Mobile), 98, coast watchers, 276 230 for OVERLORD, 226 5th Radio (Mobile), 311-12 for STRANGLE, 188,190 6th Radio Squadrbn, 363 on targets, 1945,242-43 16th Reconnaissance, 180 Southwest PacificArea(SWPA), 107,253 17th Reconnaissance, 87 Soviet Army, 178 436th Bomb Squadron, 305 Soviet Union, 391-92 Stalin, Joseph, 171 Spaatz, Carl A., 19,92,379-80,414,421 Standard Oil, 31 aerial reconnaissance and antishipping Stark, Harold R., 53 campaign, 163 Stearns, J. C., 380, 382 497
Piercing the Fog Stilwell, Joseph W., 298, 304, 320-21, 414,417-18 Stimson, Henry L., 21,50,59,64,395 and atomic bomb, 380,383-86 code breaking funding, 101 forms Special Branch, 102 Stone, E. E., 8 Strategic Air Command nucleus of, 9 Strategic air attack concept, ACTS, 26-28 Stratemeyer, George E., 119, 123, 298, 308,311-12,315 Strong, George V., 4042,357 Strong, Kenneth, 37 Submarines, German attack policy of U.S., and outcomes, 14246 efficacy of Allied attacks on Japanese shipping, 284 use against Japanese ships, 318 Sutherland, John R., 307 Sutherland, Richard K., 250, 256, 267, 415 Switzer, Byron R., 124 Tactical Air Intelligence Centre (TAIC), 312 Target analysis, Far East, 64-71 Target development and analysis of specific target data differences in AmericanIBritish requirements, 136 Target selection ULTRA and, 74-75.78 Taylor, Richard, 3 13 Taylor, Telford, 35,64-66, 94,401 Technical Air Intelligence Centre, New Delhi, 308 Technical intelligence early 1940s, 121-25 Tedder, Arthur, 160,213,412-13 Tenth Air Force, 298, 300-301 China Air Task Force (CATF), 297-98, 301,304 combined into EAC, 308 India Air Task Force (IATF), 297-98, 305 intelligence available to, 305-6 role against Japan, 112 Teramoto Kunachi, 28 1 Third Army, 66 Thirteenth Air Force activated in the Solomons, 256 498 intelligence, 256-57 reinforcements for, 268 under navy control, 269 Thirteenth Air Task Force based in Admiralties, 279 bombardment of Woleai, 282 Thorsheimer, 167 Tibbetts, Paul W., 34546,382 Timberlake, Patrick W., 30 Tizard, Henry, 62 Tizard Mission, 62 Togo Heihachiro, 400 Tokyo, Japan raids on, 342-43 Traffic analysis (TA), 58 Training air technical intelligence (ATI) course, 122 Eighth Air Force personnel, in U.K., 132-33 evolution of Air Intelligence School, 126-32 Transportation systems Allied successes against German, 41 1 Burmese, 307 German railways, 212-13,241,411-12 Italian railways, 181-82,187-88 Truk Atoll, 275 Truman, Harry S., 380,383,385 Tsuji Masanobu, 292 Tsunoda Koshiro, 287 Tunisia Allied failure to capture, 160 Twaddle, Harry L., 126 Twelfth Air Force, 78, 141, 349 absorbed into NAAF, 161 becomes tactical under MATAF, 178 intelligence on Italian railways, 18 1-82, 187-88 relationship with MATAF intelligence, 181 Twentieth Air Force, 333 509th Composite and, 383 bombing restricted before atomic attacks, 381-82 Twining, Nathan, 112, 178,254,256-57, 268 becomes COMAIRSOLS, 272 ULTRA, 59-74 British withhold information of, 348 Chennault’s access to, 323 civilian contributions to intelligence,
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Piercing the Fog Intelligence and A
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FOREWORD WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL,
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PREFACE THE MILITARY CALAMITY IN EU
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AUTHORS ALEXANDER S. COCHRAN, Jr.,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page FOREWORD ...
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Contents Chapter 7 Planning the Def
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Piercing the Fog Events in the war
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Piercing the Fog The G-2-A-7 people
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Piercing the Fog During 1934-1935,
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Piercing the Fog Maj. Gen. Henry H.
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CHAPTER 2 The Tools of Air Intellig
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Tools of Air Intelligence Italy, bu
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Tools of Air Intelligence message a
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Tools of Air Intelligence Lt. Gen.
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Tools of Air Intelligence believed
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Tools of Air Intelligence have take
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Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker Tools of Ai
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Tools of Air Intelligence continued
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Tools of Air Intelligence the most
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Tools of Air Intelligence The resul
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Tools of Air Intelligence Washingto
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Tools of Air Intelligence interroga
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Creating the Office of the Assistan
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Air Intelligence Training One of th
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The Air War in Europe: Organizing E
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Intelligence Implications for the S
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Comparative Air Intelligence Functi
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NOTES INTRODUCTION Notes to Pages 1
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21. Ltr, Maj Gen Mason M. Patrick,
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view of the AAF Headquarters Air In
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Economic Targets in 1943,” n.d.,
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