Army Air Forces and Other World War II Forms

[Noha307]

Hey Noah: The record bag you showed in your 2 June post hasn’t really changed in all the years it’s been used. Current versions have a little big different wording on them and an addition of two thru grommets, just in from the straps. All our ground support equipment has them for current inspection and testing reports.

I guess the more things change...

Anyway, thanks for the info. Interesting stuff. Are the forms still numbered 60B, or have they changed?

Just to follow up on this point, apparently the weight and balance paperwork is still called "Form F".

Apparently, at least now, there is a whole series of letter forms:

• Chart A - Basic Weight Check List Record
• Form B - Aircraft Weighing Record
• Chart C - Basic Weight and Balance Record
• Chart E - Load Data[1]
• Form F - Weight and Balance Clearance

The above all come from the DoD Forms Management Program page on the Executive Services Directorate website. I also found the technical manual for using the forms.

It's worth noting that the wartime "Handbook of Weight and Balance Data", in addition to Form F, has a "Cargo Loading Supplement". While I haven't found an online copy of the wartime version yet, I did find a version of Form F from 1950.

Finally, while they're not USAAF forms, MOTAT has posted some high quality scans of RAF Form 700 - Aircraft Servicing Form: 1, 2, 3, 4

[Noha307]

I took the opportunity to scan a booklet at the museum today that has copies of the forms mentioned in the previous post. It is the Handbook of Weight and Balance Data, AN 01-1-40, dated May 15, 1943. It is a series of blank forms that is apparently intended to accompany a specific airframe. I only scanned the forms themselves, but there are also a bunch more pages of instructions.

Weight and Balance Control Record

Airplane Weighing Form

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[Noha307]

There's a limit of 5 attachments per post, so I had to split the files up. Here are the remaining 5 scans:

Chart A - Basic Weight Check List

Chart B - Record of Structural Changes

Chart C - Log, Basic Weight and Balance Record

Form F - Weight and Balance Clearance

Form F-1 - Cargo Loading Supplement

EDIT: Here are higher resolution copies of the above:

Weight and Balance Control Record

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Airplane Weighing Form

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Chart A - Basic Weight Check List

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Chart B - Record of Structural Changes

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Chart C - Log, Basic Weight and Balance Record

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Form F - Weight and Balance Clearance

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Form F-1 - Cargo Loading Supplement

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[Rustman]

Wow! What a thread. Thanks for posting all of these. One of the guys in our reenacting group is our clerk. He's been collecting all the forms to properly fill out his field desk, but he likes to get and recreate the USAAF ones to fit our camp as well. His handles on some other forums is AirCorpsClerk

I'll be sure to share this thread with him.

Matt

[Noha307]

Wow! What a thread. Thanks for posting all of these. One of the guys in our reenacting group is our clerk. He's been collecting all the forms to properly fill out his field desk, but he likes to get and recreate the USAAF ones to fit our camp as well. His handles on some other forums is AirCorpsClerk

I'll be sure to share this thread with him.

Thanks! I looked up some of his threads (1, 2), and man, he is dedicated! I hope it is able to help him!

I must admit, I initially started this thread in large part just to satisfy my own pedantic fascination with organization and record keeping, but between you and Mr. Lynn, I am pleasantly surprised that anyone else finds this interesting or useful.

Also, while searching "AirCorpsClerk" I happened across an interesting news article about an actual USAAF clerk. He would be the guy to ask!

Just the other day I found a very similar effort to this thread, except it is for medical, and not AAF, forms. One version is is from a website called WW2 US Medical Research Centre. However, it may be a copy of another one from a website called U.S. Army Data Depot.

[Noha307]

AAF Form No. 21 - Aircraft Flight Log

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[Noha307]

I came across these pages in a class book (Group C; Squadrons 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; Officer Candidate School; First District Army Air Forces Technical Training Command; Miami Beach, Florida) that was recently donated to the museum. While they aren't forms themselves, the pictures do show the environment the forms were used in (plus some unique pictures of olive drab, two tone camouflaged O-47s as a bonus).

Here are higher resolution copies of the above:

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[Chris Brame]

Love those O-47s! Thanks for posting those nice big images.

[Noha307]

Love those O-47s! Thanks for posting those nice big images.

Thanks! Glad you liked it! (Sorry a little bit of debris from the book got stuck in the scanner.)

Something I didn't notice until recently, (although I should have when I posted a list a little while ago) is that AC and AAF Forms 24 are different. The former is titled "Flight Performance Record" while the latter is the "PIF Table of Contents".[1] The same reference that made me realize the above also states AC Form 26A is actually a book made up of AC Form 21A.[2]

List of AC Forms (Cont.)*

• 13 - [Air Corps Release Cards][3.1]
• 18 - [Reserve Officers Activity Report][3.2]
• 26A - Navigator's Log[2]
• 47 - [Work Order Request][3.3]
• 48 - [Work Order][3.4]
• 51 - [Condemned Parts Tags][3.5]
• 60-A - [Technical Instructions Compliance Record][3.5]
• 99 - [Memorandum Receipt][3.6]
• 124 - [Report of Air Mechanic's Pay Roll][3.6]
• 169 - [Work Order][3.4]
• 171 - [Foreman's Progress Report][3.3]
• 175 - [Inspection Slips][3.4]
• 185 - [Report of Enlisted Men on Flying Duties][3.6]
• 204[4]
• 241 - [Instruction Slip][3.3]
• 247 - [Summary of Overhead Expenses][3.3]
• 248 - [Detail Cost Report of Work Orders Completed During the Month][3.3]

* Titles in brackets may not be exactly correct.

[Noha307]

I came across a catalog on AirCorps Library today called the Index of Army-Navy Aeronautical Equipment - Miscellaneous, T.O. No. 03-1-46, dated 10 July 1945. It has five pages that have either forms or their associated equipment. The applicable equipment is:

Cards - Bombardier's Instrument Calibration (AAF Form No. 27A, 27B, 27C, 27D)/Holder - Bombardier's Instrument Calibration Card

Card - Airspeed Calibration (AAF Form No. 21E)/Card Pilot's Compass Correction (AAF Form No. 57)

Holder - Correction Card

Form - Flight Report (AAF Form No. 1, 1A)/Holder - Flight Report Form

Holder - Airplane Check List/Case - Aircraft Data

(Source: AirCorps Library)

It's worth noting that the holders have a similar function to the bag from Flak-Bait and the bombardier's instrument calibration cards are similar to the tangent scales for the automatic bombing computer associated with the Norden bombsight.

[Noha307]

Just under a year ago, someone donated a collection to our museum that belonged to a man named Harold A. Baumgartner which included a form called a "Classification Folder". A literal folder with a form printed on it, it had within it forms in the following post. While it may not technically be an AAF form, I feel it still fits in the general theme of this thread:

Classification Folder

Here are higher resolution copies of the above:

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[Noha307]

I should also note that while the Daily Flight Inspection Record and Individual Flight Record Student were both included/mentioned in a previous post, I have included them here for the sake of completeness.

Form ACA 526 (CPT-41) - Daily Flight Inspection Record

Final Grade Sheet (College Training Program)

PS Form 1-B - Final Grade Sheet (Preflight School)

AAF Form No. 5S - Individual Flight Record Student

Here are higher resolution copies of the above:

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EDIT: I realized I had accidentally reversed the order of the titles from the format I was using before. They should be fixed now.

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[phil65]

This topic is worse then c span, please make it stop....

Phil

[Noha307]

This topic is worse then c span, please make it stop....

Ha! Not a bad metaphor! This stuff makes me think of all the paperwork they make me fill out every time I go to the doctor!

The forms below came from the collection at the museum that belonged to a man named Lee R. Dukes. Note that while the first one not technically an AAF form, it still seemed relevant enough to include like the Personnel Folder above:

A.G.O. Form No. 66-2 - AAF Officers' Qualification Record

AFTRC Form No. 5 - Final Personnel Inspection Check List

AFTRC Form No. 7 - Individual Equipment Shortage Report

Here are higher resolution copies of the above:

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[Noha307]

AAF Form No. 21A-1 - Navigator's Log [Alternate Version]


(Source: Vintage Flying Helmets)

Also, similar to the site mentioned in a previous post, there's a collection of scanned AAF Form No. 5 forms on the Honeylights Letters website.