Impact : the Army Air Force's confidential picture history of World War II
Production date
1944
Object detail
Accession number
15-2181
Description
Vol.2, no.1 (1944) - Vol.2, no.7 (1944). IMPACT 1944 01 Vol. 2 No. 1 ....... Articles Inside: ... Aerial Burma Road ..... Kenney Cocktails ..... Bombing Through Overcast ..... How German Radar Works ..... B-25 Sinks Ship at Swatow ..... P-40 Decoys for P-38s ..... Winter's Tale in Norway ..... Fighters Aren't Like Ducks ..... For the Photo Interpreter ..... Low Level Lowdown ..... Around the Mediterranean ..... Antwerp and LeBourget ..... Rescue by Night ..... Gliders by Night ..... Search in the Jungle ..... Back Cover - Enemy, Airborne IMPACT 1944 02 Vol. 2 No. 2 ....... Articles Inside: ... B-29 .... Air War catches Up to the Comic Strips, Skies over Europe Exhibit Some Weird and Bizarre Sights; rocket bursts surround B-17 over Emden; ME-210 making cannon-firing runs; St. Dizier, France - rocket attack on US formation .... Results of Bombing Through Overcast: Bremen, Kiel .... Old-Fashioned Visual Still Good; here's Sample of Tactical Pasting by 9th AF .... Strategic Attacks on Bearing Works by Both Strategic Air Forces: Paris, C.A.M. Works, Bois Colombes, Ivry, Turin, Fiat Works ..... Target: Formosa - Jap Is Solidly Entrenched; Under 14th attack, this island is one step nearer enemy's homeland; Mosaic of Tainan Area, Einansho Airfield; Shinchiku, Formosa .... Joint Campaign by 10th, 14th: Inseit hit .... ..... Even Aces Get into Trouble, P-38 in action, Capt. Richard I. Bong with 5th Air Force .... Make Jap Commit Self, Maj. T.J. Lyneh ..... Briefing Aids - models, perspective maps, landfall strips show look of targets from the air: Ploesti, Bremen, Holland ..... B-29, First True Heavy Bomber; B-29 over the Coulees of Kansas ..... Citizen's-Eye View of Trondheim ..... Formations for low level escort in SW Pacific; attack on Rabul, Boram airport near Wewak ... Formations 5th AF uses en route to target and during actual bombing .... Rabaul Harbor - Sample of Resulta from 5th AF Tactics; Jap ships hit: Hokuyo Maru, Hakusan Maru, Gosei Maru, Hayasaki, Yamabiko, Haruna Maru, Lyons Maru, Onoe Maru ..... For the Photo-Interpreter: Invasion Defences; Coastal defences battery near Cape Nez, France; anti-tank ditches near Ijmuiden, the Netherlands; anti-aircraft battery near Ostend and Emden; Dunkerque ..... Flak: Don't Let It Get You Down - two schools of thought exist on problem of evading AA fire; downed US planes during mission to Cognac --- B-17 is victim of flak off coast of Norway, Rjukan ..... Naples Victim of Allies, Nazis; vessel Sicilia, Lombardia, Imam Airframe Works ..... Choking Off Nazi Transportation: Rimini, Pola, Leaning tower of Pisa, Prato ..... Central Pacific Pattern: Tarea strip on Maloelap, Taroa ... More Aspects of War As Waged by 7th AF: Emidj island, Mili island ... Naru, an Old Acquaintance ... Foe prepared for Central Pacific Landings ..... Back Cover - Williwaw vs. Landing Mat; 11th Air Force strip damaged IMPACT 1944 03 Vol. 2 No. 3 ....... Articles Inside: ... AAF in Battle for Beachhead ..... But GAF Still Has a Punch ..... Axis Shipping Hit at Toulon ..... Greenland Weather ..... Six Japs in One Day ..... Leaflets Are Weapons of Attack ..... Whittling Down Jap Shipping ..... No Rest for Ports, Bridges ..... Cannon-Packing B-25 ..... Jap Supply Dump ..... Evolution of a B-25 ..... For the Photo-Interpreter ..... A-20 Tactics by the French ..... Long Range Escort ..... Return to Rjukan * Specific Damage at Tarawa IMPACT 1944 04 Vol. 2 No. 4 ....... Articles Inside: ... Target: German Fighter Industry ..... Double Lufberry ..... Toward Truk and Beyond - *1. 7th AF Full Partner in Triphibious War, *2. Doomsday at Dagua, *3. 13th AF Writes Rabaul Epitaph, *4. Truk Itself ..... Puzzle Pictures ..... For the Photo-Interpreter ..... Round I at Cassino ..... If At First You Don't Succeed ..... What Are Wild Waves Saying? ..... Hampering Japs in Indo-China IMPACT 1944 05 Vol. 2 No. 5 ....... Articles Inside: ... Air Commandos Invade Burma ..... When the Monsoons Come ..... Bearings Develop Hot Box ..... SWPA Natives Hunt Wrecks ..... Jap Ship Lanes Cut ..... Hollandia Gets Kenney Cure ..... Islands Nabbed for Air Base ..... Introducing P-51 in Combat ..... Brute Strength Saves B-24 ..... Truk First AAF Day Attack ..... Don't Be Trigger Happy ..... Rail Lines Cut Across Italy ..... Cassino, an Air Traffic Problem ..... Night Fighters ..... Night Photography ..... For the Photo Interpreter IMPACT 1944 06 Vol. 2 No. 6 ....... Articles Inside: ... Pre-lnvasion Attack on Europe ..... Night Photos of Kuriles ..... Bombing in Burma ..... Low-level Reconnaissance ..... First Photo of Polish Base ..... Pompeii, 1944 A.D. ..... 12-Ship Stagger for Heavies ..... Aid to Red Army ..... Air Base Above Clouds ..... For the Photo-Interpreter ..... The A-26B ..... Toward Tokio ..... Wingman "Blocking Back" ..... More on B-29 IMPACT 1944 07 Vol. 2 No. 7 ....... Articles Inside: ... Invasion of France ..... Attack on Radar ..... German Jet Planes ..... For the Photo-Interpreter ..... New Landing System ..... Two B-24s Down ..... Azores Base ..... New Bail-Out Assembly ..... SOPAC Air-Ground Team ..... B-29s Smack Japan ..... 7th AF Guards Sea Lanes ..... Spike-Bombing ..... Jap RR Camouflage ..... Hitting German M/T ..... Strangle in Italy ..... Strategic Campaign Continues ..... Bomb Plot Study ..... Precision Incendiary Bomb
Media/Materials
Physical description
7 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Other title
Impact : the Army Air Force's confidential picture history of World War two
Collection
Credit line
1944. Impact : the Army Air Force's confidential picture history of World War II, 15-2181. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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