The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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 L A N S , P O L I C I E S , A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N
lighted by the controversy in the press, it was to be months before
VIII Bomber Command had thoroughly demonstrated the soundness
of its doctrine of daylight bombing. As one of its officers wrote.in
retrospect, “There were, frankly, many times when we seriously
doubted the practical adherence to such a high-flown motto.” 2 3 2
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