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Piercing the fog : intelligence and Army Air Forces operations in World War II

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD iii PREFACE v AUTHORS vii INTRODUCTION John F. Kreis 1 CHAPTER 1 EARLY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS Thomas A. Fabyanic and Robert F. Futrell 11 American Air Intelligence in World War I 12 Air Intelligence in the 1920s 17 Air Intelligence in the Early 1930s 20 The Air Corps Tactical School and Air Intelligence 24 Acquisition and Evaluation of Air Intelligence: Developments in Europe and Asia 28 The Approach of War 39 AWPD-1: Planning an Air War 4 Air Intelligence on the Eve of Pearl Harbor 51 A Tentative Assessment 54 CHAPTER 2 THE TOOLS OF AIR INTELLIGENCE: ULTRA, MAGIC, PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT, AND THE Y-SERVICE ALEXANDER S. COCHRAN, JR., ROBERT C. EHRHART, AND JOHN F. KREIS 57 Ultra 59 The Importance of Ultra in the European Theater 74 Photointelligence 80 Y Intelligence 94 Ultra and Magic in the Pacific and CBI 99 B Section 105 Operational SIGINT and the Far East 106 CHAPTER 3 BUILDING AN AIR INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION AND THE EUROPEAN THEATER ROBERT C. EHRHART, THOMAS A. FABYANIC, AND ROBERT F. FUTRELL ILL Pearl Harbor and Implications for Air Intelligence 113 Creating the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence 116

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