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History, Organization, United States, United States. Air Force, United States. Army Air Forces, United States. -- Army Air Forces -- History, United States. -- Air Force -- Organization
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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword iii
Preface v
Acknowledgments ix
Photographs xvi
Charts xix
I. ROOTS OF AAF ORGANIZATION 1
Early Air Organization 3
General Headquarters Air Force 12
Air Organization in World War II 20
Anticipating Postwar Reorganization 31
II. PLANNING FOR 70 GROUPS 45
Early Postwar Planning 45
Marshall Orders a Resurvey 51
AAF Protests Resurvey 54
The War Department and UMT 58
Establishing the 70-Group Goal 61
Jamison's Dissent to Bessell Committee 68
Arnold Urges 70 Groups 69
Final Approval for 70 Groups 74
70 Groups vs UMT 77
III. UNIFICATION AND A SEPARATE AIR FORCE 80
Joint Chiefs of Staff Special Committee Report 82
The Navy's View of the Report 86
Views of Arnold and Marshall 89
Forrestal on Autonomy 93
Eisenhower Supports a Separate Air Force 97
Truman Advocates a Coequal Air Force 98
The AAF Plans for Unification 100
IV. ORGANIZING THE POSTWAR AIR FORCE 113
Continental Air Forces 114
Strategic Striking Force 118
Postwar Organization of Major Commands 124
Planning the Headquarters Organization 138
Establishment of the Air Board 142
War Department Circular 138 145
V. MOVING TOWARD AUTONOMY 149
Truman Increases the Pressure 150
Norstad and Sherman Draft a Plan 155
Agreement between Patterson and Forrestal 161
Struggle over Roles and Missions 164
Executive Order 9877 170
National Security Act of 1947 171
VI. INDEPENDENCE AND ORGANIZATION 179
'At Long Last' 180
Establishing the Air Force 182
Organizing the Headquarters 188
Planning the Technical Services 195
Transfer of Functions 203
VII. EPILOGUE 209
APPENDICES
1. Operational Plans Division, Air Staff: Extract from a Study to Determine the Minimum Air Power the United States Should Have at the Conclusion of the War in Europe, April 1943 227
2. Extract from War Department Basic Plan for the Post- War Military Establishment, March 29, 1945 234
3. Extract from Report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Special Committee for Reorganization of National Defense, April 1945 242
4. Minority Report of AAF Member of Special War Department Committee on the Permanent Military Establishment (Bessell Committee), 28 Nov 1945 252
5. Letter, The Adjutant General's Office, War Department, AG 322
(21 Mar 46) OB-I-AFCOR-(971 (d) )-M, to Commanding Generals, Army Air Forces, and Continental Air Forces, subject: Establishment of Air Defense, Strategic Air and Tactical Air Commands; Redesignation of the Headquarters, Continental Air Forces and Certain Other Army Air Forces Units; Activation, Inactivation and Assignment of Certain Army Air Forces Units, 21 March 1946 255
6. Memorandum, Office of the Chief of Staff, War Department, for President, Board of Officers on Organization of the War Department (Lieut. General W. H. Simpson), et al, subject: Statement of Approved Policies to Effect Increased Autonomy of the Army Air Forces within the War Department Structure, 4 April 1946 259
7. Extract from Report to Chief of Staff, United States Army, on Army and Air Force Organizational Matters under Unification, March 14, 1947 267
8. Executive Order 9877, Functions of the Armed Forces, July 26, 1947 271
9. The National Security Act of 1947 (Public Law 253-80th Congress), (Chapter 343-lst Session), (S.758) 275
10. Army Air Forces/United States Air Force — Headquarters Staff 293
NOTES 299
GLOSSARY 317
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE 323
INDEX 335
Photographs
Generals Carl A. Spaatz and Henry H. Arnold xx
Lt. Henry H. Arnold in a Wright "B" airplane, College Park, Maryland; Maj. Arnold examines the first Liberty engine 4
Maj. Thomas DeW. Milling and Maj. Arnold fly an Army observation plane 5
Brig. Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold; Maj. Carl Spaatz; Capt. Ira C. Eaker 8
Wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah; Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell and Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, 1922 9
President Franklin D. Roosevelt 11
Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews; Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois and Brig. Gen. Henry C. Pratt 16
Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur 18
Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover 19
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson 22
Maj. Gen. Hap Arnold and Gen. George C. Marshall, Randolph Field, 1941 23
President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 24
Brig. Gen. Laurence Kuter 33
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Col. Paul T. Cullen, and Commodore Ben H. Wyatt examine photographs of the fourth atomic bomb burst, Bikini Atoll; Admiral Ernest J. King; Admiral William D. Leahy 37
Scientific advisor Dr. Theodore von Karman 40
Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz confers with Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, Maj. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Knerr; Lt. Gen. Hap Arnold and Brig. Gen. James Doolittle 42
Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter; RAF Marshal Viscount Trenchard and Maj. Gen. Ira Eaker, England, 1943 43
Brig. Gen. Orvil A. Anderson; Army Chief of Staff George C. Gen. Hap Arnold and Gen. George C. Marshall, Cairo, 1943; Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles and Brig. Gen. Russell E. Randall, 1944 56
Maj. Gen. William F. Tompkins, Brig. Gen. Kendall J. Fielder, Maj. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell, and Brig. Gen. M. W. Marston, Hickam Field, 1945 60
Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker 64
Maj. Gen. Lauris Norstad 65
Brig. Gen. Glen C. Jamison 70
President Harry S. Truman and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower 71
Assistant Secretary of War Robert A. Lovett; Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell 83
Admiral James O. Richardson; Admirals Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and Raymond A. Spruance aboard the USS Indianapolis, 1944 88
Army Air Forces Commanding General H. H. Arnold 91
Adm. Ernest J. King and Gen. George C. Marshall 92
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Fleet Admirals Ernest J. King and Chester W. Nimitz 95
President Truman signs the proclamation for Air Force Day, with Gen. Carl A. Spaatz and Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker attending 99
Col. Jacob E. Smart; Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker and Gen. Hap Arnold 102
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch 106
AAF Commanding General Henry H. Arnold rides with Gen. Carl A. Spaatz and Maj. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg 109
Brig. Gen. Leon W. Johnson 118
An Army separation center, 1945; soldiers flood a separation center after V-J Day 119
B-29 in flight 124
Brig. Gen. William F. McKee, Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, and Maj. Gen. Earle E. Partridge confer over a scale model of Bikini Atoll 125
Brig. Gen. William F. McKee; Maj. Gen. Samuel A. Anderson and Brig. Gen. Edwin J. Backus, 1945 127
Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett and Major Banfield 130
Lt. Gen. El wood R. Quesada 131
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Maj. Gen. Donald Wilson, Maj. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon, Gen. George C. Kenney, Lt. Gen. Harold L. George, Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, and Maj. Gen. Elwood R. Quesada 132
Gen. Hap Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert A. Lovett, and Brig. Gen. Grandison Gardner at Eglin Field, Florida 140
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Carl Spaatz and Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker 144
Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Knerr 145
President Harry S. Truman; Adm. William D. Leahy 152
Vice Adm. Arthur W. Radford 153
Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder after the Casablanca Conference; Viscount Trenchard and Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner 156
Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman; Brig. Gen. Lauris Norstad 159
Army Maj. Gen. William E. Hall 163
AAF Commanding General Carl A. Spaatz 166
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; W. Stuart Symington and Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder 168
The first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal 176
Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington and Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall; Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan being sworn in by Chief Justice Fred Vinson 177
Hon. W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force, and Gen. Carl Spaatz, Air Force Chief of Staff, announce the new organizational set-up for the Department of the Air Force 184
Maj. Gen. Hugh Knerr; Maj. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild 191
Maj. Gen. Earle E. Partridge 199
Maj. Gen. Malcolm C. Grow 204
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall, and Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan, March 1949 208
Secretary of the Air Force Symington with Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Fred Vinson, Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan, and Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall, September 1947 216
President Truman aboard a B-36, Andrews AFB, 1949 217
Kenneth C. Royall being sworn in as Secretary of the Army by Robert P. Patterson 220
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg takes the oath of office in the presence of Chief Justice Fred Vinson, James Forrestal, Gen. Carl Spaatz, and W. Stuart Symington 222
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military leaders: Lt. Gen. Lauris Norstad, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, Gen. Omar Bradley, Adm. Louis Denfeld, Vice Adm. Arthur W. Radford, and Maj. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther 223
Charts
Army Air Forces Organization, 24 December 1941 25
Army Air Forces, March 9, 1942 28
Army Air Forces, October 1943 32
Estimated Aircraft Requirements for 70-Group Peacetime Air Force 72
Proposed Reorganized Armed Forces, Collins Committee, October 1945 96
Air Staff, March 21, 1946 134
AAF Military Personnel Distribution: March 1946 135
AAF Tactical Groups and Separate Squadrons, March 1946 136
Army Air Forces, June 11, 1946 146
Department of the Air Force 186
Air Staff, Headquarters United States Air Force, 10 October 1947 194
Major Air Commands, October 10, 1947 197
Generals Carl A. ("Tooey") Spaatz and Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, architects of the postwar Air Force.

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Bibliography: p. 323-334.
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