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- p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8
LONDON
The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada
Copyright 1948 by…
- p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary
judgment of the importance of this…
- p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani-
zation and, by default, leadership…
- p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing
for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
- p. 61 …It held that
there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
- p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures,
and Howell’s group…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States
and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
- p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could
be concentrated on either coast…
- p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval
air units, while the army attempted to…
- p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train-
ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
- p. 164 …A m y air units in the
Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
- p. 176 …no military alliances
were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans
only…
- p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy
bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
- p. 285 …From 1938 the United
States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
- p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and
lmmediate Deployment
On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
- p. 289 …ground units sent
in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major
invasion of…
- p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States.
Capture of…
- p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them-
selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
- p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart-
ment again pressed for an answer…
- p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle
East Air Force and later as…
- p. 430 …Attempts had been
made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United
States, but…
- p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no
opportunity to get set. The…
- p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters
already included many representatives of the…
- p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the
Netherlands East Indies, he was…
- p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved
that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed
trucks…
- p. 563 …Grady arrived from the
United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with
reference to…
- p. 564 …TO C H I N A
graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to
make high…
- p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became
almost a t once…
- p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate
offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily
against…
- p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air
units initially based there were to…
- p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United
Kingdom several months…
- p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with
its own under a plan eventually…
- p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was
(Patrick, United States in the Air, pp.
190-91.)
38. Charges of…
- p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941.
9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a.
92…
- p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
F O R E W O R D
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T HAS become a truism that no war in history was so well reported
as that which the United States entered on 7 December 1941.The
Ireference is, of course, to the legion of correspondents, radio
broadcasters, and feature writers who chronicled its daily progress.
With equal appropriateness, the judgment might be referred to less
widely publicized efforts to provide a more permanent historical
record. Surely no such concerted effort has ever been made by the
historical profession in America as that which was carried out under
the auspices of the various armed services and of civilian governmental
agencies during the war years.
Of the appropriateness of such an effort the editors of this history,
whether as professional historians or as citizens, can have little doubt.
Twice within a single generation the country has been forced into a
world conflict; in each case the major enemy was the same, but, as the
second war opened, no adequate record of the experiences of the first
had as yet been provided for either official or public use. The need for
a history has seemed especially urgent in the case of the Army Air
Forces. Younger than the other military arms, it had in 1941 barely
outlived its growing pains. It had no tradition of historical scholar-
ship within or without the service-no Mahan or Freeman. Much of
what had been written about the Air Service in World War I had been
episodic, personalized, apologetic. Authors who popularized the idea
of air power were not trained historians: between the wars they wrote
of the future; during the recent conflict they had no choice but to
draw their conclusions from incomplete evidence. Today a consider-
able portion of the American public is air-minded, but amid discussion
of the role of air power in plans for national security there exists no
balanced synthesis of available knowledge of modern aerial warfare
to which that public can turn. It is in an attempt to satisfy this want
that the present work has been undertaken.
One of the better histories of the Air Service, AEF, is prefaced
with the statement that “the primary purpose of this book is to
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