Piercing the fog : intelligence and Army Air Forces operations in World War II

Cover......Page 1
Front......Page 2
Foreword......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Authors......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
1 - Early Intelligence Organization in the Army Air Corps......Page 26
American Air Intelligence in World War I......Page 27
Air Intelligence in the 1920\'s......Page 32
Air Intelligence in the Early 1930\'s......Page 35
The Air Corps Tactical School and Air Intelligence......Page 39
Acquisition and Evaluation of Air Intelligence: Developments in Europe and Asia......Page 43
The Approach of War......Page 54
AWPD-1: Planning an Air War......Page 61
Air Intelligence on the Eve of Pearl Harbor......Page 66
A Tentative Assessment......Page 69
2 - The Tools of Air Intelligence: ULTRA, MAGIC, Photographic Assessment, and the Y-Service......Page 72
ULTRA......Page 74
The Importance of ULTRA in the European Theater......Page 89
Photointelligence......Page 95
Y Intelligence......Page 109
ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pacific and CBI......Page 114
B Section......Page 120
Operational SIGINT and the Far East......Page 121
3 - Building an Air Intelligence Organization and the European Theater......Page 126
Pearl Harbor and Implications for Air Intelligence......Page 128
Creating the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence......Page 131
Air Intelligence Training......Page 141
The Air War in Europe: Organizing Eighth Air Force\'s Intelligence......Page 147
Eighth Air Force:Early Operations......Page 155
Countering the German Air Force......Page 161
Intelligence Implications for the Strategic Air Campaign in Europe......Page 165
TORCH and Northwest Africa......Page 172
4 - The European Theater of Operations, 1943-1945......Page 186
Mediterranean Theater: 1943-1945......Page 188
Strategic Air Operations in Europe: Spring 1943 to Spring 1944......Page 205
OVERLORD and Tactical Air Operations in Western Europe: 1944-1945......Page 239
Strategic Air Operations: Summer 1944 to Spring 1945......Page 252
5 - The Pacific and Far East, 1942-1945......Page 262
The South and Southwest Pacific......Page 264
Assessing the Watchers: The Allied View of Japanese Air Intelligence......Page 307
6 - Taking the Offensive: From China-Burma-India to the B-29 Campaign......Page 312
China and the Fourteenth Air Force......Page 327
The Central Pacific......Page 339
B-29 Operations Against Japan......Page 344
7 - Planning the Defeat of Japan: The A-2 in Washington, 1943-1945......Page 364
Organization and Interservice Relationships......Page 370
Army Air Forces\' Y-Service......Page 376
Far East Target Analysis......Page 379
German and Japanese Interchanges and Implications for the War on Japan......Page 386
Army Air Forces Intelligence and the Atomic Bomb......Page 395
The Reorganization of 1945......Page 404
8 - Retrospection......Page 408
Doctrine, Intelligence, and Air Power: The Prewar Preparations......Page 410
Intelligence and the Air War in Europe......Page 416
Intelligence and the War in the Pacific......Page 428
Conclusion......Page 436
Notes......Page 440
Glossary......Page 480
Bibliographic Note......Page 484
Select Bibliography......Page 491
A......Page 498
B......Page 500
C......Page 501
D......Page 502
E-F......Page 503
G......Page 504
H......Page 505
I......Page 506
J-L......Page 507
M......Page 508
N-O......Page 509
P......Page 510
Q-S......Page 511
T-U......Page 513
V-W......Page 515
X-Z......Page 516