U-boat Archive - Sea Search Attack Group Command History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Supplied by Historical Officer, I Bomber Command)

A.	Completed Narrative (see Memorandum, Historical Officer, I Bomber Command to Historical Officer, First Air Force, above)

	Chapter I, General: Organization and Missions		1

	Chapter II, Operations and the Development of Tactical and Training Doctrine		21
		Exercises at Key West, May 1943	39
		MAD Mark VI Tactics	39
		Low Altitude Optical Bombsight	80
		Honors	84

	Chapter III, First Mission: Experiment, Tests, Developments		86

	Chapter IV, Second Mission: Training, H2X and LAB; not completed. Completed parts of the narrative, together with the documents from which the rest could have been written, properly sorted according to topic, are gathered in Envelopes 16 to 21 of the Supporting Data to this history. See below.

B.	Appendix		207

C.	Supporting Data and Incomplete Narratives. This material, carefully selected from the files, is supplementary to the extremely condensed narratives and appendix. Envelopes marked with * contain important material not mentioned in the narrative. Some of this material would have been treated in Chapter IV. Some of it was added by the Historical Officer of the I Bomber Command, specifically the estimates of Colonel Dolan and Wright and the material on the origin of LAB.

	Chapter I
	*	Envelope #1. Essay by Historical Officer, I Bomber Command on origin of LAB, estimate of Colonels Dolan and Wright, with supporting interviews (with Mr. Byron Havens of Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Colonel Dolan); authorities for organization, missions, and priorities.

	Chapter II
	*	Envelope #2. Includes publication of tactical doctrine.

	Chapter III
		Envelopes #3 through #15. Contain a correspondence

			file for each project and a detailed separate report for each of the most important projects, together with technical and operational data. For any ultimate study of technical developments in the Second World War, the material in these envelopes will be valuable. It still has current value for inquiries from developmental units as at Wright Field. For key to project numbers, of Chapter III. * Envelope #3. Projects, General. Index to Projects, interim status reports on projects, other developments not formerly ascribed project numbers, etc.
			Envelope #4. Projects SS #1 through SS #6
			Envelope #5. Project SS #7 (MAD)
			Envelope #6. Projects SS #8 and SS #9
			Envelope #7. Project SS #10 (ASV)
			Envelope #8. Projects SS #11 through SS #19
			Envelope #9. Projects SS #20 through SS #23
			Envelope #10. Projects SS 24 through SS #27
			Envelope #11. Projects SS #28 through SS #37
			Envelope #12. Projects SS #38 through SS #43
			Envelope #13. Projects SS #45 through SS #50
			Envelope #14. Projects SS #51 through SS #55
			Envelope #15. Projects SS #56 through SS #62

		Chapter IV. Second Mission Training.
		*	Envelope #16. Training During the Developmental and Operational Phase (6 June 1942 --).
		*	Envelope #17. Radar Training, General (24 June 1943 --).
			Contains plans for training as primary mission (H2X and LAB), training aids, files, and the 1st SAG publication "PPI Scope Interpretation".
		*	Envelope #18. Wright and Scott Projects (OTU). Contains photographs of crews, planes, Scott and Wright; interviews; reports from the theatre of operations; clippings.
		*	Envelope #19. LAB Training (August 1943 --). Documents; historical narrative, publications.
		*	Envelope #20. H2X Training (9 September 1943 --). Documents, historical narrative, publications.
		*	Envelope #21. Plotting Device developed by 1st SAG. See narrative in Envelope #20.