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

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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. 430 …The Dutch had also constructed modern air- fields on Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, and Amboina, and suitable…
  • p. 437 …The bombers returned that night to the Lhoknga emer- gency field in northern Sumatra, from which…
  • p. 438 …And so on the morning of 16 January, the day of Combs’ return from Sumatra, the…
  • p. 446 …The invasion of Sumatra began on 14 Feb- ruary with a paratroop drop at Palembang, where…
  • p. 452 …Possessed now of Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, Amboina, and Bali, the Japanese by the…
  • p. 783 …This shows that British forces were concentrated in Burma, Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo. The Aus- tralians…
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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