AIR FORCE OFFICIAL SERVICE JOURNAL OF THE U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES Vol. 26 No. 4. APRIL 1943 CONTENTS Battle Reports on P-38 Action in the Southwest Pacific 4 Our Antisubmarine Command Fights the Underwater Menace 6 Hunting U-boats at Night in a B-18 Over the Caribbean 7 A Desert Island Bail-out Suggests These Survival Hints 10 Testing Your Altitude Ability in Decompression Chambers 12 The Role of Our Aircraft Warning Service in National Defense 15 The Photography Directorate Places War on Celluloid 20 Radios on Life Rafts Increase Your Rescue Chances 23 What Every Airman Should Know About Map Projections 29 Compressibility — Analyzing Effects of Wave Formations 31 Explaining the Air Forces New Training Aids Unit 34 Details Behind Our Method of Teaching Aircraft Recognition 36 How to Keep Healthy in the Middle Eastern Theater 39 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 Air Forco Quiz 14 Roll of Honor 18 Technique 23 On the Line 26 Training Aids 34 ------------- Vol. 26 No. 5 MAY 1943 CONTENTS Reorganization of the Air Forces; The Basic Principles Explained 2 The Tactics Employed In Our Air War Against U-Boats 4 Tips from Veterans on Flying the North Atlantic Route 6 Compressibility: Last of a Series on Supersonic Problems 12 Some Sidelights on the life of Wartime Washington 14 Bomber Pilot Reports on Fighting Japs and Germans 16 Survivor of a Northern Crash Tells a Story of Endurance 18 The New Organization Chart of the Army Air Forces 20 Notes on Air Forces Stations In the Caribbean Area 22 Analyzing the Physiological Effects of High Speed Flight 24 What That Useful Lingo Called Pidgin English Is All About 29 A 37-Year-Old Graduate Tells His Story of O.C.S. Miami 36 How to Keep Healthy in the Burma Theater of Operations 39 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 Snow, Sand, and Sarongs 3 Air Force Quiz 28 On the Line 26 Roll of Honor 30 Technique 33 ------------- Vol. 26 No. 6 June 1943 CONTENTS Advice From a Veteran for Every fighter Pilot 6 Introducing the Air Forces School of Applied Tactics 8 The Legend of Shorty Gordon, Belly Turret Gunner 10 Factors in Hitting the Silk From High Altitude 13 Life in Mid-Africa as a Flight Surgeon Sees It 18 Weather Over Western Europe, an Explanation in Charts 20 Why It Pays to Understand Proper Use of Oxygen 24 Emergency Kits and Equipment, a Current Status Report 34 Aerial Torpedo Warfare With Medium Bombers 36 Classification of Personnel at the Squadron Level 39 DEPARTMENTS Cross Country 1 Snow, Sand, and Sarongs 3 Technique 14 Air Force Quiz 17 On the Line 22 Training Aids 26 Roll of Honor 50 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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