Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, From the Red Baron to the F-16 (84 page)

BE-8, 96

Bristol Scout, 42

de Havilland Scouts, 40

DH-4, 107

early British, 16–17, 42

early wing designs, 13, 57

improved design and construction of, 56–57

LVG two-seater, 132

Nieuport 17, 85–86

Nieuport 24, 108–109

post-war, 159

RE-8, 71, 73, 76–77, 108, 111, 120

Bir Hakeim, Battle of, 265–268

Bismarck, Otto von, 30

Biter,
HMS, 428

“Black Flight,” No. 10 Naval Squadron, Canada, 108

Blanchard, Georges, 200–201

Blitz, the, 240–241

BMW IIIa engine, 128

Bob, Hans-Ekkehard, 201–202, 261

Boelcke, Oswald, 26, 27, 33–41, 48, 61, 64, 67, 77, 232, 466

Boelcke, Wilhelm, 38

Böhme, Erwin, 38, 40, 64

Bolin, Luis, 157

Bolshevism, 167

Bolt, John, 415

bombers

accuracy of Stuka aircraft, 178

all-female bomber regiment, 291

defensive circle maneuver for, 258

dive bombers, 177–178

night bombing, 242

torpedo bombers, 252–253, 335–336

bombs, 548–549

bomb aiming theory, 546–548

bombing triangle, 547

cluster, 549

dumb, 515

general purpose, 548–549

laser-guided, 515

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 17

Bonham-Carter, I. M., 18

Borisenko, Ivan, 307

Boulton, Matthew P. W., 11

Boxer,
USS, 391

Bradley, Omar, 415

Bramley, S. L. J., 100–101

Braun, Eva, 367

Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter aircraft, 340

Brisitsh Second Army, 364

Bristol Beaufighter aircraft, 242

Bristol F-2 fighter, 68, 69, 150

Bristol Scout biplane, 42

Bristol-Taube aircraft, 55

Britain, Battle of, 235–245

British 1st Airborne Division, 347

British 6th Airborne Division, 363

British Admiralty, 70, 71, 72

British Air Force (France), 181–182

British Army

1st Armored Division, 206, 265

2nd Royal Norfolk Regiment, 201

Second Army, 109

Third Army, 74–75

4th Armored Division, 262

Fifth Army, 114, 127

5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, 207

7th Armored Division (“Desert Rats”), 253, 265

Eighth Army, 260, 268, 270

9th (Scottish) Division, 109

10th Corps, 109

51st Highland Division, 74, 206

52nd Lowland Infantry Division, 206–207

Western Desert Air Force, 269

Western Desert Force (Egypt), 251

British Army Council, 46–47

British Desert Air Force (RAF), 254, 255–256

British Expeditionary Force, 18, 28–29, 93, 95, 112, 181–182, 184–185, 190, 193, 195–196, 199, 202

British Napier Lion engine, 153

British Special Air Service, 517

British War Council, 118

British XIII Corps, 270

British XXX Corps, 364

Brooke, Sir Alan, 206

Brown, E. W., 388

Brown, Roy, 120, 123–124

Browning machine gun, 22, 182, 197, 227, 228, 392, 406

Browning, Miles, 341

Budanova, Katya, 297–298

Buddecke, Hans-Joachim, 37

Budyonny, Semyon, 149, 150

Buie, Robert, 121–122, 123

Bush, George H. W., 498, 512, 513

C

Cairo Conference, 1943, 385

California,
USS, 323, 326

cameras, gun, 413–414

Camm, Sydney, 182

Campbell, Douglas, 130

Canada

in Battle of Passchendaele, 112

“Black Flight,” No. 10 Naval Squadron, 108

1st Canadian Division, 207

flying ace Barker, 134–138

Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles, 134

Canary Islands, 156–157

cannons, aircraft, 167, 228, 230, 260, 271, 277, 278, 294, 406, 458

cantilever wings, 128, 165

capital ships, 319

Card,
USS, 434

Casablanca Conference, 1943, 354

Case Green Plan, invasion of Denmark, 181

Case White Plan, invasion of Poland, 176–177

Case Yellow Plan, fall of France, 181, 184

Castries, Christian de, 430

Catalina aircraft, 339, 340

Çelebi, Lagari Hasan, 10

Central Aerodrome (Moscow), 290

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 435

Chain Home system radar network, British, 217–219, 220, 225, 236, 239, 240, 516

Chandler, Charles deForest, 21

checking six aerial maneuver, 99

Chiang Kai-shek, 385, 400, 428, 429

China

flight training for Chinese pilots, 411–412

in French-Vietnam relations, 426–429

Japan’s occupation of, 318

Korean War, 387–402, 415–417

9th Army Group, 402

13th Army Group, 401

Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), 376, 411, 414

Christie, Walter, 282

Chuikov, Vasily, 367

Churchill, Winston, 190, 192–193, 204, 206, 207–208, 222, 385

Battle of Britain speech, 245, 254

and U.S. declaration of war on Japan, 327

Civil Aviation Pilot Training Center, 152

Civilian Aeronautics Authority–War Training Service, 314

Civilian Repair Organization, British, 225

Clemenceau, Georges, 113

cluster bombs, 549

Coc, Nguyen Van, 466

Cock, Geoffrey, 67

Collishaw, Raymond “Collie,” 108, 144–148, 254, 255

combat air patrol, MiG, 425, 443

Combined Fleet, Japanese, 317, 336, 337

command guidance system, 450–451

Communism, 146, 149, 152, 162, 279, 281, 385, 386–387, 400–401, 427

compulsory military service, 15

Condor Legion (Germany), 163, 165, 167–170, 171, 172, 177, 189

Constantinescu-Colley synchronization gear, 83, 84

Constellation,
USS, 436, 437

continuously computed release point (CCRP), 515

Coonts, Steven, 439

Cooper, Merian, 150

Coral Sea, Battle of the, 333–334

Coral Sea,
USS, 436–437

Corregidor, Battle of, 333

Corsair F-4U fighter aircraft, 392–393

Cottam, Kazimiera, 308

cowling-mounted machine guns, 260

Cunningham, John “Cat’s Eyes,” 242

Cunningham, Winfield Scott, 329, 330

Curran, Joan, 451–452

Curtiss, Glenn, 11–12

Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighter aircraft, 186, 201

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk/Tomahawk fighter aircraft, 257, 258–259, 261, 267, 272–273, 311–312

Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk fighter aircraft, 266

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 12, 356

Curzon Line, 148

D

D-Day (Operation Overlord), 363–365

Daimler-Benz engines, 260

600A, 171

DB 601, 230

DB 605 V-12, 278

Daniels, James G., 325, 368

Davis, Carl, 215

Davis, George “Curly,” 373–384, 466

de Havilland Dragon Rapide, 156

de Havilland Scouts, 40

de Lacey, J. M., 100–101

Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S., 517

defensive circle maneuver, 258, 267

defoliation, Operation Ranch Hand (Vietnam), 433

Delage, Gustave, 109

Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 427

Denikin, Anton, 144, 146, 147–148

Denmark, 181

DESOTO operations, signals intelligence patrol, 436

Devereux, James, 328, 329

Dewoitine series aircraft

510 fighters, 185

D-520 fighters, 186–187, 232

DH-2 fighters, 39, 43–44, 45, 67

DH-4 fighters, 107–108

DH-9 fighters, 144, 147

Dilley, Bruno, 178

Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT), 154

Distinguished Service Order, 42, 132, 133, 137

dive bombers

Japanese, 311

Stuka diving technique, 177–178

Dixmude
(French carrier), 428

Do 17 bombers, 179, 180, 182, 200, 235

dogfights, 40, 73, 79, 103, 107, 137

anatomy of, 537–545

end of, 138

theoretical aspects of, 99

Donovan, Jack, 454

Doolittle, Jimmy, 265, 331–333

Douglas, Sholto, 94

Dowding, Hugh, 216, 217, 218, 219, 224, 225, 226, 234, 236, 238–239, 244, 305

drag, principle of, 12–13

dumb bombs, 515

Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo), 196–197, 199–204, 207

Dzierzynski, Felix, 279–280

E

Earhart, Amelia, 281

Eberhardt, Kraft, 160

Ebert, Friedrich, 139

Eden, Anthony, 254

Egypt

Battle of El Alamein, 269–274

Italian invasion of, 251, 254

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 417

El Alamein, Battle of, 269–274

electronic combat, 439

countertactics, 452

electronic countermeasures, 451–452

jamming equipment, 452, 462, 518

noise jammers, 462

Elrod, Henry Talmage, 329–330

engines, aircraft

air-cooled, 128, 135, 186

Allison, 257, 266, 358

Bentley B.R.2, 135

Benz Bz.III, 63

BMW IIIa, 128

British Napier Lion, 153

Daimler-Benz, 260

Daimler-Benz 600A, 171

Daimler-Benz DB 601, 230

Daimler-Benz DB 605 V-12, 278

DB 605, 278, 302

French Gnome, 44

fuel efficiency, 59

General Electric, 506

Hispano-Suiza 8B, 82–83

Hispano-Suiza 12Y-45/49, 186

Hispano-Suiza V-8, 130

inline, 58, 68

Jumo 210 series, 166

Le Rhône, 109

Liberty V-12, 58

liquid-cooled, 230

lubrication, 58–59

Merlin, 197

Packard V-1650 Merlin, 359

Pratt & Whitney, 392, 393, 444, 506

pusher, 43–44

radial, 58, 186

Rolls-Royce, 226, 230–231

Rolls-Royce Kestrel, 166

Rolls-Royce Merlin, 182, 358–359

Rolls-Royce Nene, 403

rotary, 33, 57–58, 59, 72, 111, 135

on Sopwith Camel, 97

stationary, 58

twin-engine Zerstörer fighter design, 197

water-cooled, 128

Wright Cyclone, 159

English Channel, 4, 16

Enola Gay
(B-29), 367–368

Entente, 113, 116, 117

Entente Cordiale, 15

Enterprise,
USS, 324, 326, 327–328, 331, 338–339, 341, 342, 343

Escadrille Américaine, 105–106

Escadrille des Volontaires, 105

Escadrille Lafayette, 105

Escuadrilla de Caza, 159

“Essential Characteristics of Successful and Unsuccessful Aviators, The” (Rippon and Manuel), 30–32, 532–533

Essex,
USS, 375

Euler, August, 25

F

F-4 Phantom jet fighter aircraft, 423–424, 462–468

F-4C jet fighter/bomber, 462–468

F-4U Corsair fighter aircraft, 392–393

F-16 Viper fighter aircraft, 487–495, 505–508, 520–531

F-51 Mustang fighter/bomber aircraft, 393, 394–395

F-86E Sabre jet-powered aircraft, 373–384, 405–407, 410, 412

F-100F Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft, 454–457

F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber, 419, 441–449, 457–459

F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, 487, 495–498

F4F Wildcat carrier-based aircraft, 324, 325, 328, 340, 343

Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber, 252

Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF), 390, 395

Fauntleroy, Cedric, 150

FE-2 fighters, 63, 67, 78

FE-2b, 77

Felt, Harry, 434, 435, 437

Ferdinand of Austria, Archduke Franz, 14, 15

Fiat CR.2s fighter aircraft, 159, 160

Fickel, Jacob, 21

Fieberling, Langdon K., 341

fighter pilots

favorite songs, 550–552

training for American, 499–505

fighter pilots, World War I

aerodromes, 42, 51–54, 79, 135

American pilots in France, 105–106

Barker as Canadian flying ace, 134–138

birth of, 9, 20, 27

Boelcke’s impact on fighter aviation, 33–41

British, 42–46, 52, 62, 65–74, 82, 84–90, 93–140

British tactical measures, 85, 88, 94