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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
within the time available,” it was recommended that for the present
Allied efforts in the Far East be limited to holding the Malay barrier,
Burma, and Australia and to operations projected northward “to pro-
vide maximum defense in depth.” l o 5
Of the soundness of this conclusion events would soon offer more
than ample proof. On Bataan the American forces would continue
their heroic struggle, but a skillful and swift-moving enemy had
already engulfed them.
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