AIR FORCE OFFICIAL SERVICE JOURNAL OF THE U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES Vol. 26 No. 1. JANUARY 1943 CONTENTS General Arnold Reports on the Air Forces After One Year ofWar 3 B-17 Crews Give It and Take It in the Solomons Area 4 A Bomber Pilot Tells of Hell Over Occupied France 7 How Ferrying Pilots Prepare for the Run to Alaska 8 Summary of Weather Conditions in North Africa 11 Technical Description of Foreign Combat Aircraft 12 General Royce Reviews Air Operations in South Pacific 15 Flying with the Bamboo Fleet in the Philippines 18 Picture Story of a New Fire-Fighting Method for Airfields 23 Sentry Dogs Go on Guard Duty at Mitchel Field 24 Principles of Compressibility, Aviation's Problem Child 25 Army Pilot Takes a Big Bomber on Its Acceptance Flight 29 Experiences of Our Transport Flyers In Burma 31 Learning All the Trade Secrets of Global Flying 37 An Old Sarge finds Our Mechanics Modernized 38 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 Air Force Quiz 10 Roll of Honor 17 On the Line 21 Technique 32 ------------- Vol. 26 No. 2 FEBRUARY 1943 CONTENTS Notes Conditions in North Africa 4 Clear Thinking Saves a C-53 After a Mid-air Crash 6 An Eagle Fighter Pilot Tells of 250 Combat Hours 7 The Troop Carrier Command, Explained by Its Leader 8 How Ingenuity Helps Training on the Salt Flats of Utah 19 Details on the Organization of the Army Air Forces 13 Health Hints for the Southwest Pacific Theater 14 Compressibility — An Explanation of Its Effect on Aircraft 15 A Bombardier's Account of a Kiska Bombing Raid 17 Our Airmen In the Solomons — A Picture Report 20 The Role of Maps in Global War, First of a Series 22 "Gas Alert Day" at Geiger Field is Realistic 25 How Our Photo Interpreters Outwit Enemy Camoufleurs 32 The Job of a Tow-Target Pilot Is Anything But Dull 34 RAF "Train Busters" Disrupt German Rail Service 36 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 On the Line 18 Technique 26 Roll of Honor 30 Air Force Quiz 33 ------------- Vol. 26 No. 3 MARCH 1943 CONTENTS An Airman's Letter from the Southwest Pacific 3 Know the inemy's Tricks, Warns African P-40 Pilot 4 Details of the Air Forces' Sikorsky Helicopter 6 First Cross Country Flight in a Helicopter 7 How the Air Forces Investigates "New" Navigation Devices 8 Conversion of P-38 into Two-Seated Trainer 10 What the Flight Control System Will Mean to You 12 Cadet Discipline and Morale Can Not Be Separated 13 Combat Camouflage Is a Personal Responsibility 14 An American Observer's Report from the Soviet Front 17 Cardboard Serves as a Combat First Aid Device 20 TheRole of Mental Attitudes in Flyer Fatigue 22 Solomons Pilot Captures Jap and Paddles Home 23 The Arctic, Desert and Tropic Information Center 25 A Picture Study of Women in the Air Forces 27 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 On the Line 18 Air Force Quiz 26 Roll of Honor 30 Technique 34 Digitized by  http://www.afhso.af.mil/

With vol. 42, no. 1-5 is filmed: Air force and space digest, v. 42,no. 6-12

Vol. 25, no. 7-v. 28 filmed with: Air corps news letter, v. 24, no. 1-14

Suspended Oct.-Nov. 1942

Vol. 41, no. 11-v. 42, no. 5 include Space digest, v. 1-2, no. 5, Nov. 1958-May 1959

Issued by the U.S. Army Air Forces, Dec. 1942-June 1946; by the Air Force Association, July 1946-May 1959

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