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Pacific Air Forces An Air Force Major Air Command .. The Pacific Air Forces ACIFIC Air Forces (PACAF) is the USAF's tac- Gen. Hunter Harris, Jr., tical aerospace arm in the central and western became Commander in Chief, p Pacific and Southeast Asia. PACAF also serves as PACAF, in August 1964 air component of the Department of Defense's unified after nearly two years as Pacific Command (PACOM)). Vice Commander in Chief, SAC. A native of Texas and As a major theater command, PACAF receives USAF 1932 West Point graduate administrative, logistical, personnel, and training sup- who won his wings in 1933, port. From USAF come the forces and other resources he served with the Eighth to carry out the mission. As the air component of a Air Force in Europe during unified theater command, PACAF is under operational World War II. He has held command of the Commander in Chief, Pacific Com- a number of important mand ( CINCPAC). operational and staff posts The PACAF mission is large, as is the geographical since the war. area it serves. Forty percent of the earth's surface is encompassed in this region, from the southwest Pacific and airlift in conjunction with other PACOM forces to northern Japan and Korea; from the mid-Pacific to and with air forces of US and allied countries. Southeast Asia. The limited-war tasks of Pacific Air Forces spread In general war PACAF tactical air strike forces from readiness for large-scale conflicts such as the would conduct offensive air operations designed to Korean War to the conduct of special air warfare as eliminate or degrade the enemy's capability to attack is now under way in South Vietnam. the PACOM areas and the continental US ( CONUS ). PACAF's major specific peacetime missions include: PACAF would conduct defensive air operations to (1) provision of ready, mobile, tactical jet strike forces protect the land areas of PACOM and western for any contingency; ( 2) provision of peripheral air- approaches to the US. PACAF tactical air units would defense forces against enemy attack on the US from also perform a wide variety of theater air missions, across the Pacific; ( 3 ) assistance to the air forces of including joint air/ground operations, reconnaissance, friendly nations in the Far East in air defense of their homelands; (4 ) maintenance of an instant, alert air- defense structure in US-controlled areas, and coopera- tion with friendly foreign air forces in the maintenance PACAF's skills of this structure in host countries; ( 5 ) support of air and tactical aspects of the US Military Assistance Program ( MAP) know-how are being fed into US in allied nations; ( 6) maintenance of close operational, assistance pro- training, logistical, and command relationships with air gram to Republic forces of allied nations; ( 7 ) performance of routine of Vietnam. and emergency aerial reconnaissance; ( 8) provision Right, Air Com- of tactical airpower advice, training, assistance, and mandos install a support to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force; (9) delicate payload, support of joint PACOM operations; (10) provision of a fragmentation intratheater airlift support for all services and for bomb connected friendly foreign forces as directed; ( 11) maintenance to bottom of of bases and support facilities for augmentation de- fuselage. ployments from CONUS; and (12) participation in a wide range of peacetime applications of airpower, 98 AIR FORCE Magazine • September 1964 i.e., assistance to any nation or peoples in earthquake, to establish a Tactical Air Control System ( TACS ) flood, or other national disasters. and an air communication network for joint operations This variety of tasks requires a diverse array of tac- with friendly forces. tical air weapons and support equipment. The bulk of The 315th Air Division, equipped with C-124 and PACAF's combat and support weapons and units are C-130 cargo aircraft and C-118 air-evacuation planes, in two theater air forces and two combat air divisions. conducts PACAF's intratheater airlift operations. Head- Fifth Air Force units in Japan, Korea, and Okinawa quartered in Japan, 315th units operate from bases maintain ready forces of conventional/nuclear-capable throughout WESTPAC and Southeast Asia. F-105 Thunderchief and F-100 Supersabre tactical In the Republic of Vietnam ( RVN) the major air fighters, RF-101 Voodoo jet-reconnaissance aircraft, force unit is 2d Air Division, responsible for advising and KB-50 aerial-refueling tankers. Ground-to-ground and instructing the Vietnam Air Force ( VNAF ) in the tactical missiles supplement maimed systems in Oki- multiple skills required in tactical combat air-ground nawa. F-102 Delta Daggers stand air-defense strip operations in counterinsurgency and special warfare. alert with Japan Air Self-Defense Force ( JASDF ) In combat-support roles such as airlift, reconnaissance, F-86s and F-104s and Republic of Korea Air Force and other nonstrike tactical air tasks, 2d Air Division F-86s, backed up by a first-class, modern, efficient units, personnel, and equipment supplement VNAF air-defense radar/electronic warning network manned operations and provide direct assistance to the govern- by Japanese, Korean, and US technicians. ment and RVN armed forces. USAF Air Commandos, Thirteenth Air Force in the Philippines maintains in who instruct VNAF aircrews in special air-warfare readiness F-100 Supersabre and twin-jet B-57 light- techniques, are assigned to 2d Air Division. The 2d bomber forces. F-102s at Clark AB, Philippines, work Air Division is a subordinate unit of Thirteenth Air in conjunction with Philippine Air Force F-86 fighters Force. It serves as the operational air component for in air defense of that nation, while a Thirteenth Air Southeast Asia under the Military Assistance Com- Force Task Force (Provisional), based in Taiwan, co- mand, Vietnam/Thailand. ordinates operational matters with the Chinese Na- Colocated with Hq. PACAF at Hickam AFB is the tionalist Air Force in Taiwan. Mobile tactical control Pacific Air Forces Base Command (PACAFBASCOM), and communication groups with complete equipment responsible for logistical and housekeeping support of are constantly ready for deployment to primitive areas (Continued on following page) PACIFIC AIR FORCES Headquarters, Hickam AFB, Hawaii Commander in Chief Gen. Hunter Harris, Jr. 5th Air Force 13th Air Force Hq., Fuchu As, Japan Hq., Clark AB, Luzon, P. 1. Lt. Gen. Maurice A. Preston Maj. Gen. Sam Maddux, Jr. Commander Commander 39th Air Division 41st Air Division Air Task Force 13, Provisional 2d Air Division Misawa AB, Japan Yokota AB, Japan Hq., Taipei, Taiwan Republic of Vietnam 313th Air Division 314th Air Division Kadena AB, Okinawa Osan AB, Korea 315th Air Division Hawaiian Air Defense Division PACAF Base Command Attached Units (Combat Cargo) (326th Air Division) Hickam AFB, Hawaii Weather Wing Hq., Tachikawa AB, Japan Wheeler AFB, Hawaii Brig. Gen. John A. Rouse Photo Squadron Detachment Brig. Gen. Richard H. Ellis Brig. Gen. John A. Rouse Commander Security Wing Commander Commander Hq., Pacific Communications Area AIR FORCE Magazine • September 1964 99 PACIFIC AIR FORCES CONTINUED Operating from some twenty-five bases in more than half a dozen allied countries, PACAF/USAF forces have available base facilities of our allied forces throughout the entire Pacific Ocean area. Major formal agreements align PACAF with foreign air forces of our allies in the Pacific: the seven-member Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ( SEATO ); the Australian-New Zealand-United States ( ANZUS ) alli- ance; and the nations with whom the US has bilateral defense treaties—Japan and the Republics of Korea and China. Large-scale annual SEATO combined exercises have produced closely knit joint air operations. Of esser scale, but no less valuable, are other joint maneu- vers—exercises such as the Flying Brothers fighter weapons meet in the Philippines; Joss Stick in Malaya; Tien Bing ( Sky Soldier) in Taiwan; joint Operational Readiness Inspections ( ORIs ) with air-defense units in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea; and a continual The war in Vietnam against the tenacious Communist Viet Cong is complex and continuous, and PACAF's missions in- program of joint PACOM-allied nation air/ground ex- clude such operations as these mass drops of paratroopers ercises in various geographical areas including the into Vietnamese jungle clearings. The aircraft used in these Republic of Korea. Realistic operational practice in by-now routine operations are versatile C-123 Providers. combined air offensive/defensive operations welds the US and its Pacific air partners into a total tactical bases in the central Pacific and for other using com- "force in the air," facing a combined Communist bloc mands, such as SAC, MATS, TAC, and AFSC, which air strength in the Far East of more than 5,000 tactical share these bases in tenant status. Reporting directly fighters, bombers, and support aircraft. to CINCPACAF, the Commander, PACAFBASCOM, Highlights of PACAF activities and achievements also commands the 326th Air Division ( popularly from July 1963 to July 1964 include: known as the Hawaiian Air Defense Division) and has • July 1963—Gen. Emmett O'Donnell, Jr., PACAF operational control over Hawaii Air National Guard Commander in Chief and veteran Air Force combat F-102s. The 326th Air Division is responsible for air commander, retired at Hickam AFB on July 31. defense of the fiftieth state. • August 1963—Gen. Jacob E. Smart assumed com- Mobility and quick reaction are the keynotes of mand of PACAF on August 1, 1963. General Smart PACAF squadrons of strike, support, and air-defense was formerly Commander of US Forces, Japan, and aircraft. Added to this USAF capability are tactical PACAF's Fifth Air Force. squadrons of the allied nations of the Far East. • September 1963—Fighter pilots of the 8th Tac- Backing up this total front-line force are US-based tical Fighter Wing, Japan, began delivery flights of Composite Air Strike Force ( CASF ) units of TAC F-105Ds from Mobile, Ala., to their unit at Itazuke which can reach the Far East quickly, using trans- AB, Japan.
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