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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.
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C O M M I T M E N T S TO C H I N A Middle East with all available bombers and to assume command of American forces there for the assistance of the British.e8 H e was authorized to take with him all personnel necessary for the staffing of a headquarters, and all cargo-type planes required for transportation. Further, he was instructed to appropriate whatever supplies and equipment might be needed from India-bound cargoes passing through the Middle Three days later he left India, taking with him General Adler, Colonel Strahm, and several other key oficers,loo and he was soon followed by the planes and crews of the 9th Bom- bardment Squadron (H).lo’ T h e most dependable ferry pilots were selected to transport ground personnel and equipment for the bomber detachment.”* General Naiden, Brereton’s successor in command of the Tenth Air Force, was left with a crippled air transport system, a skeleton staff, and virtually no combat strength outside the task force in China. The future of the Tenth, and with it the extent of our continuing aid for China, now depended on the news from the Middle East.
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