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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.

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T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
the USAAF, its doctrine of daylight bombardment remained entirely
an article of faith as far as any experience in combat under European
conditions was concerned.
So it was that on 17 August 1942all eyes were fixed on a bombard-
ment mission which in the later context of strategic bombing would
have appeared insignificant indeed. The experiment begun on that
day culminated during the following year in the Combined Bomber
Offensive, a campaign which could only have been attempted after
all major doubts regarding the use of heavy bombardment forces had
for practical purposes been removed.
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