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Order of Battle
Air Forces
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Fifth Air Force:
The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, January to October 1943
The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, October 1943 to February 1944
The Fifth Air Force in the Conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago, November 1943 to March 1944
Seventh Air Force:
Operational History of the Seventh Air Force, 7 December 1941 to 6 November 1943
Operational History of the Seventh Air Force, 6 November 1943 to 31 July 1944
Eighth Air Force:
Origins of the Eighth Air Force: Plans, Organization, Doctrines
The Early Operations of the Eighth Air Force and the Origins of the Combined Bomber Offensive, 17 August 1942 to 10 June 1943
Tactical Operations of the Eighth Air Force, 6 June 1944-8 May 1945
Ninth Air Force:
Ninth Air Force in the Western Desert Campaign to 23 January 1943
Ninth Air Force in the ETO [European Theater of Operations], 16 October 1943 to 16 April 1944
Ninth Air Force Operations, April-November 1944
Participation of the Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign
Tenth Air Force:
The Tenth Air Force, 1942
The Tenth Air Force, 1 January-10 March 1943
The Tenth Air Force, 1943
Twelfth Air Force:
The Twelfth Air Force in the North African Winter Campaign, 11 November 1942 to the Reorganization of 18 February 1943
Participation of the Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces in the Sicilian Campaign
Thirteenth Air Force:
Guadalcanal and the Origins of the Thirteenth Air Force
The Thirteenth Air Force, March-October 1943
Fourteenth Air Force:
The Fourteenth Air Force to 1 October 1943
Twentieth Air Force:
History of the Twentieth Air Force: Genesis
Additional Resources
U.S. Air Force
USAF Museum
USAF Museum: Combat in the Pacific
Air Force Historical Research Agency
[the repository for Air Force historical documents]
Air Force History Support Office
American Air Museum
in Duxford, England
"Black Pilots Shatter Myth"
(332d Fighter Group)
Annals of the Brewster Buffalo
[Dan Ford]
Annals of the Flying Tigers
[Dan Ford]
Flying Tiger Days
-- including the diary of George Burgard, 1st Pursuit Squadron
Elevon
[Aviation History documents]
The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
, home of the International B-24 museum
A short history of the Boeing aircraft company
P-38 page
from pilot "Wild Bill" Boyd
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt
379th Fighter Squadron of P-47 Thunderbolts
[George Rarey's cartoon journals]
North American P-51 Mustang
Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat
Art Kramer's WWII Pictures
(B-26)
The B-26 Marauder & Ninth Air Force Association Archives
[U. Akron]
B-29 Superfortress
by Gerd Eles and Paolo Pizzi
Last updated: 7 March 2004