Fifth Air Force (5 AF) adalah sebuah angkatan udara bernomor dari Pasukan Udara Pasifik Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat (United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces, PACAF). Pasukan tersebut bermarkas besar di Pangkalan Udara Yokota, Jepang. Pasukan tersebut adalah Angkatan Udara Bernomor tertua dalam Angkatan Udara AS. Organisasi tersebut bertugas selama 70 tahun di Pasifik sejak pendiriannya pada September 1941.[1]
Referensi
- Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN0-89201-092-4.
- Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN0-912799-12-9..
- ↑ "Fact Sheet 5th Air Force". 5th Air Force Public Affairs. 23 April 2012. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 2020-10-28. Diakses tanggal 6 Oktober 2016.
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Daftar pustaka
- Bartsch, William H. Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941–1942. Reveille Books, 1995. ISBN 0-89096-679-6.
- Birdsall, Steve. Flying Buccaneers: The Illustrated History of Kenney's Fifth Air Force. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977. ISBN 0-385-03218-8.
- Craven, Wesley F. and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948–58.
- Holmes, Tony. "Twelve to One": V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific. Botley, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-84176-784-0.
- Rust, Kenn C. Fifth Air Force Story...in World War II. Temple City, California: Historical Aviation Album, 1973. ISBN 0-911852-75-1.
Pranala luar
- Fifth Air Force Factsheet Diarsipkan 2022-11-09 di Wayback Machine.
- Red Raiders—22nd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force, WW II Diarsipkan 2012-08-29 di Wayback Machine.
- 38th Bomb Group Association Diarsipkan 2012-10-03 di Wayback Machine.
- 43rd Bomb Group Association: Ken's Men Diarsipkan 2013-03-06 di Wayback Machine.
- The Julius Schellenberg Collection Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine. at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York includes the diary of 5th Air Force sergeant Julius Schellenberg from February – December 1942 and a photograph of the 5th Air Force in 1942.
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