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Includes three instructional military booklets. One is "Get that Fighter" issued by the Army Air Forces 1 November 1943; it states "This book deals only with the shot you make against a fighter when he is actually coming in at you." One is "If you should be captured these are your rights" issued by the War Department 16 May 1944; it gives advice about what rights prisoners of war have, how to act and stand up for those rights, and to request that a copy of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War be shown to them, so they explicitly know their rights. The last is an instructional booklet about how to operate the Caliber .50, M2 Browning Machine Gun.

A: Glide Bombing Attachment: Report submitted to USSTAF Flak Coordination Meeting on 060845 by representatives of the 15th AF. B: Two page discussion within 15th AF on 062345 on the advisability of size of bombs to be used on targets in the future. Also discusses the explosion of surplus bombs and resulting damages to countryside. C: "Low, Fast, and Once": Refers to the tactics used by fighters to avoid "fighter flak" the light flak to which fighters tended to be most suscetible. "Escort flak" shot down very few fighters, but brought down many bombers. Four pages. D: Three pilots' mission reports submitted via the Legation of the USA, Office of the Military Air Attache, Stockholm, Sweden, 060544. All three had to crash land or short land in Sweden after encountering problems over Kiel. Pilots belonged to the 4481 and 453rd Bomb Groups. E: The ME 262. "This report deals with the first ME 262 to fall intact in the allied hands." 0412 45. Twenty page report on the ME 262, aided by the German pilot , Hans Fay, who flew into allied hands deliberately . His family's home town was in allied hands, so he no longer feared retaliation and defected. F: Fifteenth Air Force: Counter Air Operations Against Three Bomber Bases in Southern France (012744). 27 Pages. G: Fifteenth Air Force: Counter Air Operations of 013044 and 013144. Villa orba - Maniago - Lavariano - Udine -Aviano - l(lagenfurt. 41 Pages. Created 030244.

A: Fifteenth Air Force: Markersdorf Airdrome Attack 070844. 9 Pages. B: Fifteenth Air Force: Manzell/Dornier Works, Friedrichshafen, Germany 080344. Report on the effectivenessof the 15th AF attack on Manzell. 9 pages. C: Several different files in microfilm from 0637-0650. Discussion of bombing Salzburg-Berchtesgaden, 042545, to prevent resistance there. Use of Oblique photos as target material to eliminate smoke screen occlusion, 021045. lk Bombs are being rations on monthly allotments, only 12k left in theater. 022845. Maps of Target areas in Central Europe/Southern Germany and Austria. 8 pages. D: Air Mail: Miscellaeous material including: schedules, routes, distances, maps. E: Observations in China, 071739, report by Ralph Royce, Lieut. Col. Air Corp. (Serving with Chennault). F: Several different files in microfilm from 0610-0616. Summary of Early Returns for Week Ending 011544. Aircraft Failures and Early Returns 013044. List of officers and enlisted men in several African satellite AFBs. G: Economic Intelligence Weekly Report No. 1 (053145). Brief overview of conditions along the Ruhr River valley; discussion of food rationing in Berlin; German Rubber Control during the war; and miscellaneous notes. H: Special Intelligence Report by Lt. Col. L. B. Deville May 1944. Deville discussed the air defense network around Naples, which he says is particularly effective against the Germans and that is why they do not attack there. He also advocates the use of barrage balloons.

This folder is largely filled with printouts of formerly classifed documents about Air operations in Europe (and one in China??) 1201-1226: Commendations for the other units in the 15th AF. 1227-1231: Photographs. 1232-1281: Rosters of the 460th Bomb Group, 760th and 761st Bomb Squadron. 1281-1292: 1296-1379: *Formerly named Guide Bomb Attachment.

1380-1428: Narrative Mission Reports and Bomb Strike Photos of 460th. 1432-1434: Attack Sheet for 081244. 1437-1549: 460th P.F.F. Reports Jan. - April. 1945