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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.
“King”32 pages
- p. 303 …of Naval Opera-
tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen.
George…
- p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you
know, is not only Chief…
- p. 493 …Admiral King
believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who
were currently…
- p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi-
461
- p. 527 …t this stage of the
war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
- p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint
Chiefs a proposal that…
- p. 607 …type
* O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The
experience…
- p. 608 …s.’l A
formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
- p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab-
lishment of…
- p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position
on this point with the utmost clarity…
- p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy
Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
- p. 616 …viewed as a temporary
deta~hment.?~
Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
- p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer
to the antisubmarine…
- p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral
King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
- p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral
King had replied that, although he…
- p. 641 …54
A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and
a small staff flew to…
- p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King-
dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
- p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King-
dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
- p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King-
dom became the basis of action in January…
- p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King-
dom was the belief…
- p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King,
First Official Report to the Secretary of
the…
- p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S,
17 Mar. 1 % ~ .
34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
- p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942.
108. Zbid.
109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of
Midway, incl. in…
- p. 797 …306, 29 June
1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar-
shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
- p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung-
king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942;
memo for Gen. Arnold…
- p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942.
certain evidence from all Allied and
enemy sources…
- p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney,
26 May 1942.
7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
- p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept.
1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report;
memo for C G…
- p. 808 …to notes from Mar-
shall and Adm. King).
3 2 . A I c m o for…
- p. 814 …Forces to the United King-
dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942.
50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
- p. 851 …C.E., 48-50
Killin, Pfc, 219
Kilner Board, 1 2 0
Kimbolton, 63 I
King…
- p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also
King); controversy over air power vs.
battleship…
C H A P T E R 2
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THE ARMY AIR ARM BETWEEN
TWO WARS, 1919-39
OR THE Air Service the Armistice brought surcease from battle
but not from strife. From 1919to 1939 the history of the Army
F air arm was dominated by a struggle for recognition whichleft a deep imprint upon the air organization and its personnel. Indeed,
the character of the AAF on the eve of World W a r I1 and its self-
conceived mission can be appreciated only in light of a conflict which
had begun during the earlier war and was intensified after the return
of the Air Service, AEF. In its second war the air arm occupied an
anomalous position: it was a part of the Army, as its official title pro-
claimed, yet there was a degree of separatism in thought and in action
not to be found among the other arms and services under War Depart-
ment control. This was tacitly accepted in the command structure
which emerged early in the war; it was sensed, too, by the average
civilian, who with fine disregard for the formal chain of command
might ask, “Are you in the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are
you in the Army or the Corps of Engineers?”
T o understand this special character of the air force, it is not
necessary to recall the myriad routine incidents which constitute so
large a part of the life of a military establishment in time of peace. It
should be sufficient here to describe the three paramount trends of
the period: the effort to establish an independent air force; the develop-
ment of a doctrine of strategic bombardment; and the search for a
heavy bomber by which that doctrine could be applied. An approach
so circumscribed as this will inevitably omit much that is important
and interesting; worse still, it might foster the erroneous idea that from
an early date all activities of the air arm were directed consciously
toward those three goals. Yet so important were those trends in the
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