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Operations Analysis in the United States Army Eighth Air Force in World War II


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C. W. McArthur

Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year: 1991; Volume 4
ISBN: 978-0-8218-0158-1 (print)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/004
MathSciNet review: MR1092997
MSC: Primary 01A99; Secondary 01A60, 01A80

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Table of Contents


Chapters

  • The beginning of operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force
  • The pioneer operations research section organizes, October–December 1942
  • The operational research section of the Eighth Bomber Command continues to organize, January–June 1943
  • Operations research in the Eighth Bomber Command, June–December 1943
  • The operational research section of the Eighth Fighter Command, March–December 1943
  • The operations research section of the Eighth Air Force, January 1944–6 June 1944
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, 6 June 1944–July 1944
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, August–December 1944, Part I
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, August–December 1944, Part II
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, August–December 1944, Part III
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, August–December 1944, Part IV
  • Operations analysis in the Eighth Air Force, the last four months of combat operations