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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

Air Force Historical Studies Office · 863 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.

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  • p. 108 …s airmen stood in the year of Munich, two years before the Battle of Britain. There…
  • p. 128 …Hurried attempts to rebuild the French Air Force were made after the Munich conference in 1938…
  • p. 130 …By September 1938, the month of Munich, only one squadron in the RAF had been equipped…
  • p. 165 …with the progress of events abroad during the period from Munich to Dunkirk, though I 26
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