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e-Book Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War II (Special Studies (Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)).) download

by John F. Kreis

ISBN: 9996642453
ISBN13: 978-9996642456
Language: English
Publisher: Office of Air Force History (June 1996)
Category: Politics and Government
Subategory: Sociology

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Army Air Forces, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial Operations, American, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 .

Army Air Forces, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial Operations, American, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, United States. 24 Acquisition and Evaluation of Air Intelligence: Developments in Europe and Asia 28 The Approach of War 39 AWPD-1: Planning an Air War 4 Air Intelligence on the Eve of Pearl Harbor 51 A Tentative Assessment 54 CHAPTER 2 THE TOOLS OF AIR INTELLIGENCE: ULTRA, MAGIC, PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT, AND THE Y-SERVICE ALEXANDER S. COCHRAN, J. ROBERT C. EHRHART, AND JOHN F.

Kreis, John . 1940-. 11. Series: Special studies (Air Force History and Museums Program (. Professor of Military History at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. in history from Yale University and a P. in history from the University of Kansas. His publications include The MAGIC Diplomatic Summaries and Lemnitzer: His Life and Times, as well as numerous book chapters and articles on World War I1 strategy and intelligence.

John F. Kreis is a retired . Piercing the Fog is an excellent history of the conflict, from the perspective of Army Air Forces Intelligence functions. This will most certainly be a source book for future writers. Air Force officer, and is a historian and military and defense analyst as a well as a Senior Fellow of the Air Force Historical Foundation.

Creating the Army Air Forces’ (AAF’s) intelligence organization in World War II proved a complicated undertaking, requiring new skills and technologies to meet a host of demands

Creating the Army Air Forces’ (AAF’s) intelligence organization in World War II proved a complicated undertaking, requiring new skills and technologies to meet a host of demands. Fashioned and completed within four years, the novel enterprise helped shape the conduct and outcome of that conflict. Beginning the war with a handful of people pursuing information in Washington Creating the Army Air Forces’ (AAF’s) intelligence organization in World War II proved a complicated undertaking, requiring new skills and technologies to meet a host of demands

Publisher: Office of Air Force History, 1996. John F. Air Force officer, and is a historian and military and defense analyst as a well as a Senior Fellow of the Air Force Historical Foundation

Publisher: Office of Air Force History, 1996.

The United States Air Force History and Museums Program exists to improve combat capability through the collection, preservation and display of Air Force information and artifacts. The current Acting Director is Walter A. Grudzinskas. The mission of the Air Force History and Museums Program is to improve combat capability through the collection, preservation, interpretation, dissemination and display of historical information, artifacts and AF heritage to commanders and the public.

Air Force History and Museums Program, Bolling Air Force Base, 1996. None of this is far removed from what air intelligence is about today. But in 1940 military intelligence was the province of the Army's G-2, which was insensitive to the specialized requirements of the air campaigns. Much of Kreis's work is devoted to the personalities and bureaucratic machinations necessary to create an A-2 intelligence organization responsive to the air campaign. This is important to the historian but a bit dull in the reading.

Focuses on how airmen built intelligence organizations during World War 2 to collect and process information about the enemy and how they produced and disseminated this intelligence to decisionmakers and warfighters. ISBN 13: 9780160481871.

The Army air forces will be land based and employed as an element of the Army in carrying out its missions of defending the coasts, both in the homeland and in overseas possessions.

450 - Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vo. Встречается в книгах (187) с 1921 по 2008. Стр. 410 - The enemy has struck us at one of our weakest points. The Army air forces will be land based and employed as an element of the Army in carrying out its missions of defending the coasts, both in the homeland and in overseas possessions. Встречается в книгах (11) с 1968 по 2003. 125 - Under the prevailing discourse of 'healthism', the pursuit of good health has become an end in itself rather than a means to an en. Встречается в книгах (87) с 1923 по 2007. Библиографические данные.

Air Force History and Museums Program, John F Kreis

Air Force History and Museums Program, John F Kreis. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduce effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. The manuscript tells the intriguing story of how airmen build intelligence organizations to collect and process information about the enemy and to produce and disseminate intelligence to decision makers and warfighters in the bloody, horrific crucible of war.

Comments:
Nilabor
This is an excellent reference book for those interested in WWII photo reconnaissance and it application in both theaters of the war.

Kirizius
The book has a number of well qualified writers. Several government libraries and research centers contributed the information for the book. Therefore the book is authoritative and well written. For the casual reader this book has more information about Army Air Force Intelligence organization than may be wished for, and in that respect it could be a bit dry. But the chapters are well-paced and move along. The reader who is even moderately experienced with WWII and Army Air Force history will find this book of interest. The history and development of AAF intelligence operations is well covered. Operations in Europe and the Pacific are covered with an excellent chapter about ULTRA, MAGIC, and other services. There are a great many instances where we learn the rest of the story about an incident, campaign, or person. The authors provide a very complete general history of U.S. involvement in WWII. But it is much more than general history. The authors write with a good bit of detail about specific events or turning points. Piercing the Fog is an excellent history of the conflict, from the perspective of Army Air Forces Intelligence functions. This will most certainly be a source book for future writers.

Yanthyr
It seems that official history prepared by the various US Government branches and departments is highly prone to being ignored by the mainstream press and even the specialist press concerned with these matters may overlook them. Even though the US Government Printing Office is one of the most professional outfits I know of in preparing and presenting manuscripts, its marketing seems to be greatly lacking. Whether this is due to congressional policy or not I have not a clue.
That said, this book deserves a much wider audience than it appears to have gotten. Even as a serving professional intelligencer I never heard of it when it first came out in 1996. I finally discovered it while browsing the GPO site in 1998 and now I am told it is out of print already. Well, that is a shame, for this is the best overview of process, organizational history, and the effects of intelligence use during WW II that I have seen.
Because many of the methods of aerial reconnaissance are the same regardless of service, the methods given herein are just as relevent to the Navy as to the Army. Because the AF was part of the Army in WW II, the interaction of the air intelligence with that of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff is covered thoroughly and the development of the two is brought forward from WW I.
The volume is also valuable in that, in contrast to earlier works, it shows how thoroughly SIGINT was integrated into the total intelligence web and was used in such a manner as not to compromise the source. Thus, whenever, a convoy sailed from Italy to North Africa, the Allies were careful to send out a recon aircraft to spoof the targeted vessels.
Each theatre of operations is covered and the often tangled web of intrigue in the Far East is unraveled at last. Or at least as well as it can be.
It is difficult to imagine that at this late date, there will ever appear a stash of documents that will require this work to be revised. As definitive as we are likely to get on this period. A must for the shelf of the completist student of operations and organization and methods.

Malaris
It seems that official history prepared by the various US Government branches and departments is highly prone to being ignored by the mainstream press and even the specialist press concerned with these matters may overlook them. Even though the US Government Printing Office is one of the most professional outfits I know of in preparing and presenting manuscripts, its marketing seems to be greatly lacking. Whether this is due to congressional policy or not I have not a clue.
That said, this book deserves a much wider audience than it appears to have gotten. Even as a serving professional intelligencer I never heard of it when it first came out in 1996. I finally discovered it while browsing the GPO site in 1998 and now I am told it is out of print already. Well, that is a shame, for this is the best overview of process, organizational history, and the effects of intelligence use during WW II that I have seen.
Because many of the methods of aerial reconnaissance are the same regardless of service, the methods given herein are just as relevent to the Navy as to the Army. Because the AF was part of the Army in WW II, the interaction of the air intelligence with that of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff is covered thoroughly and the development of the two is brought forward from WW I.
The volume is also valuable in that, in contrast to earlier works, it shows how thoroughly SIGINT was integrated into the total intelligence web and was used in such a manner as not to compromise the source. Thus, whenever, a convoy sailed from Italy to North Africa, the Allies were careful to send out a recon aircraft to spoof the targeted vessels.
Each theatre of operations is covered and the often tangled web of intrigue in the Far East is unraveled at last. Or at least as well as it can be.
It is difficult to imagine that at this late date, there will ever appear a stash of documents that will require this work to be revised. As definitive as we are likely to get on this period. A must for the shelf of the completist student of operations and organization and methods.

Muniath
This is a very detailed history of the growth industry in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information during World War II. It is well researched and supported by appropriate photographs.

For the military intelligence enthusiast, you will love it. For the average reader, it is an extremely dry book to read.

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