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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.
“Independence Day”9 pages
N O T E S * * * * * * * * * * * NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 I . Howard E. Coffin, quoted in New 2 . A.W. Sweetser, T h e Americun Air 3. Zbid., pp. 230-31. 4. Zbid., chap. 5 . 5. N e w York Times, 10 June 1917. 6. Dr. C.D. Walcott of NACA, quoted in Sweetser, op. cit., p. 45. 7. E.S. Gorrell, T h e Measure o f Amer- ica’s World W a r Aeronautical Effort (Northfield, Vt., 19401, p. 2 . York Times, 14 June 1917. Service (New York, 1 9 1 9 ) ~pp. 66-68. 8. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 16. 9. G.W. Mixter and H.H. Emmons, U.S. A r m y Aircraft Production Facts (Washington, 1919), p. 5 . 10. J.J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World W a r (New York, 19311, I, 27. 1 1 . Sweetser, op. cit., p. 46. 1 2 . Zbid., p. 54; Mixter and Emmons, op. cit., p. 5 . 13. J.M. Spaight, T h e Beginnings of Organized Air Power: A Historical Study (London, 1 9 2 7 ) ~p. 239. 14. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 93, n. I , quot- ing the legislation. 15. Spaight, op. cit., pp. 238-45, based largely on Sweetser. 16. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 190ff. 17. Zbid., chaps. vi and vii. 18. Ibid., pp. 210-17. 19. Zbid., pp. 218-19, 238; Spaight, op. 20. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 220ff. 2 I . Zbid., pp. 240, 247-48. Spaight , ( o p . Cit., pp. 279-88) summarizes statistics from various sources. 22. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 232-33. 23. Pershing, op. cit., I, 161-62. cit., pp. 2 4 6 5 1 . 24. M.M. Patrick, T h e United States in the Air (New York, 1928), p. 1 5 . 2 5 . H.A. Toulmin, Jr., Air Service, A.E.F., rp18 (New York, 1927), pp. 74- 78. 26. Patrick, op. cit., p. 16. 2 7 . Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29 (table); Pershing, op. cit., 11, 61. 28. Patrick, op. cit., pp. 1-16; Toul- min, op. cit., chap. vi. 29. Patrick, op. cit., p. 17. Here he gives the previous goal as 354 squadrons. 30. Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29. 3 1 . Final Report of Chief of Air Serv- ice, A.E.F. (Washington, 1921). 3 2 . Details in this section are taken from the best of the Mitchell biographies: Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power (New York, 1943). 3 3 . For quotations see ibid., 92-94. 35. Zbid., pp. 97-100, 36. Zbid., p. 108. 3 7 , Final Report.. ., A.E.F., passim. Another summary of the participation of American air units in the war will be found in [Clayton L. Bisselll Brief His- tory of the Air Corps and Its Late De- velopment (Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field, Va., [19271), pp. 33-65. 38. William Mitchell, “The Air Serv- ice at St. Mihiel,” World’s W o r k , XXXVIII (Aug., 1919), 360-70; Final Re- port ..., A.E.F. 39. Quotations and general concept of the battle taken from William Mitchell, “The Air Service a t the Argonne-Meuse,” World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Sept. 1919), 5 5 2 - 6 0 ; Final Report.. . , A.E.F. 40. Quoted in Special AAF Historical Study, Review of Aerial Warfare for the Scientific Advisory Board (Jan. 1945), p. 3. 34. ]bid., pp. 95-97. 671
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