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Timeline of Strategic Aviation
Appendix
Rough Guide to Aircraft Designations
Rough Guide to British & American Phonetic Alphabets
Orders Of Battle
Allied Forces in North Africa (1940-1943)
Allied Forces in the Pacific (1944-1945)
Allied Forces in Western Europe (1939-1940)
Allied Forces in Western Europe (1944-1945)
Operation TIDAL WAVE (1 August 1943)
US Eighth Air Force (1944-1945)
US Fifteenth Air Force (1944-1945)
US Twentieth Air Force (1944-1945)
Primary Documents
29 July 1899 – Ratifications of the Hague Convention of 1899
12 August 1913 – Rep. James Hay’s (D-VA) Proposal for an Aviation Corps
17 August 1917 – Lt-Gen Jan C. Smut’s Report on Air Organization and Direction
8 January 1918 – Pres. T. Woodrow Wilson’s (D-VA) Fourteen Points
11 November 1918 – Great War Armistice
1 July 1919 – MG Joseph T. Dickman’s Board on AEF Organization & Tactics (excerpt)
19 July 1919 – Benedict Crowell’s (D-OH) American Aviation Mission Report & Written Dissents
31 July 1919 – Sen. Harry S. New’s (R-IN) Proposal for an Independent US Air Force (S 2693)
27 October 1919 – MG Charles T. Menoher’s Board on the New and Curry Bills
18 August 1921 – Joint Board Report on Project B
14 September 1921 – BG Billy L. Mitchell’s Dissent on Joint Board’s Project B Conclusions
27 March 1923 – MG William Lassiter’s Board on Air Service Reorganization
30 November 1925 – Report of President’s Aircraft Board (Morrow Board)
14 December 1925 – Florian Lampert’s (R-WI) Committee of Inquiry on US Air Services Operations
1 January 1931 – CSA MG Douglas MacArthur and CNO ADM William V. Pratt Agreement
10 November 1932 – PM Stanley Baldwin’s Speech on “The Bomber Will Always Get Through”
4 November 1939 – Hans F. Mayer’s “Oslo Report”
4 September 1940 – Führer Adolf Hitler’s Winterhilfswerk Speech
12 November 1940 – ADM Harold R. Stark’s Plan “Dog” Memo
18 August 1941 – David M. Bensusan-Butt’s Report on RAF BC Accuracy
30 March 1942 – Lord Cherwell’s Memorandum on “Dehousing”
9 September 1942 – Air War Plans Division 1942 (AWPD-42) (PDF)
20 January 1943 – Casablanca Directive
3 April 1943 – RAF BC Combat Audio over Essen, Germany
20 April 1943 – RAF BC Combat Audio over Stettin, Germany
14 May 1943 – Plan for Combined Bomber Offensive from the United Kingdom (Eaker Plan)
15 August 1943 – POINTBLANK Directive
3 September 1943 – RAF Combat Audio over Berlin, Germany
5 March 1944 – Plan for Completion of Combined Bomber Offensive (Oil Plan)
14 September 1944 – Control of Strategic Bomber Forces in Europe
8 May 1945 – Act of Military Surrender (Germany)
2 September 1945 – Instrument of Military Surrender (Japan)
12 November 1945 – Report of the CG USAAF Incendiary Attacks Against Japan (excerpt)
31 August 1967 – Summary Report on Air War against North Vietnam
10 April 1975 – Pres. Gerald R. Ford, Jr.’s Congressional Address on Behalf of South Viêt Nam
Charts
Combat Radius of Bombers based on Average Payloads in the Great War
Combat Radius of Heavy Bombers based on Average Payloads in the Second World War
Combat Radius of Allied Escort Fighters in the Second World War
Maximum and Average Payloads of Allied Heavy Bombers in the Second World War
Operational Range of GEE Hyperbolic Navigation System
Service Ceilings of Allied Heavy Bombers in the Second World War
US 8AF Sub-Pen Campaign, 20 October 1942 – 14 June 1943