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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.
“The Invaders”15 pages
- p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well
equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
- p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops
were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
- p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across
the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
- p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to
yield Crete to the invaders…
- p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army
should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
- p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the
course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
- p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed
the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
- p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the
bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
- p. 493 …Its nickel and
chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King
believed that the…
- p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the
teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
- p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the
Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
- p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them
the hopes of Admiral…
- p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate
need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
- p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma,
already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
- p. 633 …to
the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct
support of the invading force. A…
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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