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wingstrutdotcom · 30 December 2003, 07:43 PM

Plans were in the works to really ramp up the USAS. The plans on how many units to be operational by a certain date changed over the 1917-1918 period. If the war went on into 1919 indeed there would have been many more units.

There is a four vol set of USAS history published by USAF in 1978 which has a lot of information as to the actual plans for development of the USAS Service and deployment of units. I have this set and has a lot of good information.

As to "185" squadrons I can only assume most were "paper squadrons" but there were many training and forming by wars end.

30 December 2003, 07:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
wingstrutdotcom Forum Ace Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 692	Plans were in the works to really ramp up the USAS. The plans on how many units to be operational by a certain date changed over the 1917-1918 period. If the war went on into 1919 indeed there would have been many more units. There is a four vol set of USAS history published by USAF in 1978 which has a lot of information as to the actual plans for development of the USAS Service and deployment of units. I have this set and has a lot of good information. As to "185" squadrons I can only assume most were "paper squadrons" but there were many training and forming by wars end.