Army Air Forces
in
World War II

Vol. VII: Services Around the World

Prepared Under the Editorship of
Wesley Frank Craven Princeton University
James Lea Cate University of Chicago

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Contents

Foreword

I. Air Transport

John D. Carter, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force
Frank H. Heck, Centre College of Kentucky

1.	The Air Transport Command		3
		John D. Carter
2.	Airway to the Middle East		46
		John D. Carter
3.	North Africa and the Mediterranean		63
		John D. Carter
4.	The North Atlantic Route		92
		John D. Carter
5.	Airline to China		114
		Frank H. Heck
6.	The Northwest Air Route to Alaska		152
		Frank H. Heck
7.	Across the Pacific		173
		Frank H. Heck
8.	Traffic Homeward Bound		205
		Frank H. Heck

II. Aviation Engineers

John E. Fagg, New York University

9.	The Aviation Engineers in Africa and Europe		239
10.	Aviation Engineers in the War with Japan		276

III. Weather and Communications

Jonas A. Jonasson, Linfield College

11.	The AAF Weather Service		311
12.	The Army Airways Communications System		339

IV. Medicine, Morale and Air-Sea Rescue

Dr. George V. LeRoy, University of Chicago
Martin R. R. Goldman
Jonas A. Jonasson, Linfield College

13.	The Medical Service of the AAF		365
		Dr. George V. LeRoy
14.	Morale		431
		Martin R. R. Goldman
15.	Air-Sea Rescue		477
		Jonas A. Jonasson

V. Women in the Air

Kathleen Williams Boom, University of Tennessee Extention Division, Memphis Center

16.

Women in the AAF

503

VI. Redeployment and Demobilization

Chauncey E. Sanders, USAF Historial Division

17.

Redeployment and Demobilization

545

Notes

585

Glossary

641

Index

647

(Footnotes are included/hyperlinked with each chapter.)

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List of Maps

1. The South Atlantic Route
2. African Air Routes
3. North Atlantic Air Routes
4. China-Burma-India Airway
5. Air Route to Alaska
6. South Pacific Airways
7. Southwest Pacific Airways
8. Central Pacific Airways
   

List of Illustrations

1. ATC Training Program

   Radio Mechanics

   Engine Mechanics

2. ATC Aircraft Types

   Douglas C-47

   Curtiss C-46

   Consolidated C-87

   Douglas C-54

3. ATC Planes at Iceland Base
4. ATC on the Ramp

   Production-Line Maintenance, Tezgaon, India

   Refuelling, China Base

5. Loading C-46's in India

   By Native Labour

   By ATC G.I.'s

6. The Hump Route

   Take-off from Assam

   Nearing Kunming

7. Transportation in China
8. Aviation Engineer (Airborne) with Light Equipment, BROADWAY, Burma
9. Aviation Engineers on Middleburg Island

   Clearing the Strip

   Laying Steel Mat

   Digging Coral for Base

   Finished Strip, Thirteen Days Later

10. Native Help for the Aviation Engineers

    Assam

    India

11. Heavy Equipment

    Guam

    Iceland

12. Replacing Steel Mat With Concrete, Greenland
13. Building B-29 Base at Isley Field, Saipan
14. Building Runways in India

    Aviation Engineer Style

    Native Style

15. Guarding Aviation Engineers from Japanese Snipers, Guam
16. Inflating Weather Balloon, Keflavik, Iceland
17. Marianas Islands

    Launching Weather Balloon

    Reading Meteorological Instruments

18. Theodolite Operator, Greenland Base
    
19. AACS, Anguar Island: Radio Station and Homing Beacon
    
20. AACS, Anguar Island: Transcribing Radio Messages
    
21. AACS, Anguar Island: Control Board
    
22. AACS Control Tower, Myitkynia, Burma
    
23. Air Evacuation from China

    Hand Loading on C-46

    Hand Loading on C-54

24. Air Evacuation

    Stopover at Iceland

    Lashing Down on C-87, China

25. Administering Blood Plasma
26. Mail Call, Basingbourne, England
27. Dancing

    G.I. Style, Fighter Base, England

    Kanaka Style, B-29 Base, Saipan

28. AAF Entertainers

    On Tour of Pacific Bases

    At Thirteenth Air Force Base

29. Voting Service, Seventh Air Force
30. Celebrities: At Nam Lip, Burma
    
31. Celebrities: At Bomber Base in England
    
32. Celebrities: At Air Depot in England
    
33. Celebrities: At Air Base in Lancashire, England
34. Athletics, Eighth Air Force Base, England
35. Easter Sunrise Service, Thirteenth Air Force
36. Enlisted Men's Clubs in India

    At ATC Base

    At Air Depot Panagrah

37. Air-Sea Rescue

    Fifth Air Force B-24 Spotting Survivors

    Thirteenth Air Force Catalina Taxiing in for Pick-up

38. Rescue of General Twining and Crew in Coral Sea

    Approach of Rafts to Navy PBY

    Rescuer Swimming Out With Line

    Coming Ashore

    Safe After Six Days on a Raft

39. Catalina Pick-Ups

    By Thirteenth Air Force

    By Fifth Air Force

40. Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England: Switchboard Operator
41. Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England

    Teletype Operators

    In Mobile Control Unit Truck

    Stenographer

42. Air Wacs With Eighth Air Force in England: Bakeress T/5
43. Air Wac: Welder for ATC in India
44. Air Wacs in CBI
45. Over the Hump to China

    Arriving at Chungking

    Air Wacs in CBI

46. Reception at Chungking
    

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