Book Description

"This manual is intended to supplement FM 101-5 and to provide a suitable text on combat orders for the instruction of Army Air Forces personnel. It will be found useful as a guide in the preparation of combat orders in the various Army Air Forces combat organizations. This manual embraces the following subjects: principles necessary for an understanding of the use of combat orders; a brief review of the fundamental principles governing the employment of combat aviation; the air estimate of the situation, the decision, and the plan; combat orders, their preparation and issuing; teletype orders; and other types of combat orders."