A Pattern For Joint Operations
Subtitle: World War II Close Air Support, North Africa
Publisher: Office of Air Force History and U.S. Army Center of Military History
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PROLOGUE 3; title: Chapter; title: I. ORGANIZATION, DOCTRINE, AND WEAPONS FOR CLOSE AIR SUPPORT 6; title: The Interwar Years 6; title: Increasing Influence of the Air Arm, 1938-1942 9; title: Requirements for Hemisphere Defense 11; title: Requirements for War With the Axis 13; title: Doctrine for War 20; title: Aircraft: Enabling the Execution of Close Air Support 24; title: II. NORTH AFRICAN CLOSE AIR SUPPORT OPERATIONS 47; title: World War II Operations and North Africa 47; title: Planning Close Air Support for North Africa 50; title: Operations: TORCH Landings and the Offensive Against Tunisia 56; title: Operations: Reorganization and the Second Tunisian Offensive. 62; title: Operations: Kasserine and a New Look at Close Air Support 70; title: Close Air Support After Kasserine 83; title: EPILOGUE 94; title: MAPS; title: No . Page; title: 1. North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1942-1943 48; title: 2. TORCH Landings in Northwest Africa, 8 November 1942 54; title: 3. First Action in Tunisia, 16-23 November 1942 58; title: 4. Comparative Distances of Allied and Axis Airfields, December 1942 60; title: 5. American Battlefield in Southern Tunisia 64; title: CHARTS; title: 1. Channels of Tactical Control of Combat Aviation in Typified Air Support Command 21; title: 2. Allied Command Relationships in North Africa and the Mediterranean, March 1943 74; title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: 1. Curtiss A- 18s 29; title: 2. Douglas A-20 29; title: 3. Douglas B-18s 30; title: 4. Martin A-22 30; title: 5. Northrop A- 17 31; title: 6. North American B-25 "Mitchell" 32; title: 7. Martin B-26 "Maurader" 32; title: 8. Douglas 0-43 33; title: 9. North American 0-47 34; title: 10. Curtiss 0-52 34; title: 11. Taylorcraft 0-57 35; title: 12. Stinson 0-49 36; title: 13. Ryan 0-51 36; title: 14. Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" 37; title: 15. Bell P-39 "Airacobra" 37; title: 16. Curtiss P-4 0 "Kittyhawk" 38; title: 17. North American A-36 38; title: 18. Douglas A-24 39; title: 19. Curtiss A-25 39; title: 20. Curtiss C-46 "Commando" 40; title: 21. Douglas C-47 "Gooney Bird" 40; title: 22. Air Superiority 80; title: 23. Interdiction 81; title: 24 . Close Air Support 82