World War II Selected Aerial Objectives for Retaliatory Gas Attacks on Germany and Japan

World War II Selected Aerial Objectives for Retaliatory Gas Attacks on Germany and Japan

This collection has a total of 969 pages.

World War II Selected Aerial Objectives for Retaliatory Gas Attack on Germany, 11 March 1944

A 123-page report created by the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence.

Abstract: This study is an analysis of the number and types of targets in Germany which might be attacked by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in retaliation for the use of gas by Germany. As noted in the text, this retaliation program has important limitations on its scope. Within the framework of these limitations, both the air effort which the USAAF will be capable of exerting and the German cities which offer suitable targets have been studied. The conclusions which have been reached are subject to modification in the light of further experience by both the USAAF and the Chemical Warfare Service, but it is believed that they provide a reasonable basis for outlining a retaliatory gas attack program.
 

Selected Aerial Objectives for Retaliatory Gas Attack on Formosa December 1944 (1944)

A 121-page report prepared by the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, The Air Chemical Officer

Abstract: These target folders were prepared with the view to furnishing chemical officers in the field with suitable general chemical warfare data which can be incorporated in objective folders of permanent key and priority tactical gas targets in Formosa. The material contained herein is based on currently available intelligence which in some cases is o f a fragmentary nature. Such material is subject to modification as a result of changing conditions and as more recent and complete intelligence becomes available.


Additional material includes:

Battles Not Fought: The Creation of an Independent Air Forces (1997)

A lecture given at the United States Air Force Academy by Stephen L. McFarland professor of history at Auburn University (Ala.) and formerly a visiting professor at Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama.


United States Army in World War II The Technical Services The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals In Combat

A 716-page history by the U.S. Army’s Center for Military History.

Abstract: Chemicals in Combat is the last of three volumes concerned with the activities of the Chemical Warfare Service in World War II. It is devoted to the overseas story—administration, logistics, and combat. In World War II the CWS faced a unique situation, in that it found itself in the unenviable position of preparing for an unconventional kind of warfare that never came to pass. Yet, even as it served as insurance in the event of the introduction of gas by the enemy (United States policy permitted the use of gas only in retaliation), it also had to be useful in a gasless war.