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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.
“Churchill”21 pages
- p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at
sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
- p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of
a shortage of experienced officers, only…
- p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs
of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
- p. 287 …the arrival in
Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other
high-ranking…
- p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request,
U.S. troops were to relieve…
- p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime
Minister and Minister of Defense…
- p. 303 …Field
Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De-
fense. Sir John Dill…
- p. 304 …of
such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult
the maintenance of normal military…
- p. 425 …O n
the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald
Wavell of his selection…
- p. 628 …Western
Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their
military staffs in the ARCADIA…
- p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered
on 5 March, in which…
- p. 636 …first in a gen-
eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold
reviewed the…
- p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since
Churchill had approved that plan…
- p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air
Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
- p. 641 …postponement was al-
most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the
27th. In…
- p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed”
that T O R C H was…
- p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of
Commons that “there seems…
- p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister
Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
- p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed.,
Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
- p. 811 …comp.,
Winston Churchill’s Secret Session
Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85.
161. Larner report, as…
- p. 845 …L.S., 182
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133,
1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
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on Dufrane’s plane, which almost immediately burst into flame. Only
six of the crew succeeded in bailing out. Capt. Donald R. Strother
having moved into the lead, the enemy’s fire in a second attack
knocked out one engine, damaged another, and blew out the hydraulic
system of his plane. Again the Japanese made a frontal attack, and
this time the plane piloted by Lt. William J. Prichard, who had ar-
rived from the United States just two days before, burst into flames
and exploded. Three other planes sustained serious damage as the fight
continued. Finally, what was left of the flight turned back; only three
of the original nine planes returned to their base. Though five of the
Japanese had been shot down, the enemy planes had shown superior
qualities. Moreover, the top turret of the B- I 7 had been unable to cope
with head-on attacks, the .30-~al.machine gun in the nose had lacked
sufficient range, and the bottom turret had failed to prevent attacks
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