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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.

  • p. 56 …T o the public it be- came a battle royal of “Billy Mitchell versus the Brass…
  • p. 131 …into production to supplement the exist- ing aircraft industry. At the moment the British did not…
  • p. 161 …Reconnaissance flights over the island by Luftwaffe aircraft and repeated German efforts to establish meteorological sta…
  • p. 198 …and for B-IS'S operated by Royal Canadian Air Force units stationed at the New…
  • p. 200 …But new airfields, improvements in existing airfields, and large quantities of aircraft warning equipment were required…
  • p. 280 …Since the aircraft would have to be ferried overland for a distance of over 2,000…
P E A R L H A R B O R A N D C L A R K F I E L D
solved when the Australians made several wool warehouses tem-
porarily available. But the question of an adequate labor supply was
not so readily Not only did Australia have a small popula-
tion of about 8,000,000, but her manpower was already heavily com-
mitted to her own war effort and the greatest need for assistance fell
in areas of relatively sparse settlement.
Fortunately, preliminary steps had been taken prior to the war for
co-ordination of defensive efforts between American and Australian
authorities as occasion might require. General Brereton had visited
Australia in November, and plans for the South Pacific air route had
required arrangements for use of airfields and other facilities within
Australian territory. It was against this background, then, that the
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