EXPANSION TO AIR POWER

Year Published: 1943

Creator: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records AdministrationEXPANSION TO AIR POWERWar Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947)ARC Identifier 2871 / Local Identifier 18-C-407. On the growth of the AAF, June 1939-Dec. 1943. Animated diagrams trace increases in personnel, planes, appropriations, missions, etc. between flashes of world situations affecting these increases. Enumerates planning problems caused by rapid growth. Includes brief sequences of significant events, 1939-1943: the Russian-German Pact is signed; Germany invades Poland, France, Russia, and other countries; Pearl Harbor is attacked; Pres. Roosevelt delivers the war message to Congress; U.S. planes fight in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific; a Japanese convoy is bombed and strafed; Pantelleria is bombed; Germany is bombed night and day by U.S. and British planes. Estimates extent of AAF activities in 1944.

Complete Record: National Archives and Records Administration EXPANSION TO AIR POWER War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2871 / Local Identifier 18-C-407. On the growth of the AAF, June 1939-Dec. 1943. Animated diagrams trace increases in personnel, planes, appropriations, missions, etc. between flashes of world situations affecting these increases. Enumerates planning problems caused by rapid growth. Includes brief sequences of significant events, 1939-1943: the Russian-German Pact is signed; Germany invades Poland, France, Russia, and other countries; Pearl Harbor is attacked; Pres. Roosevelt delivers the war message to Congress; U.S. planes fight in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific; a Japanese convoy is bombed and strafed; Pantelleria is bombed; Germany is bombed night and day by U.S. and British planes. Estimates extent of AAF activities in 1944.