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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.

  • p. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 5 - 2 6
41. Final Report ..., A.E.F.
42. H.A. Jones, T h e W a r in the Air,
VI (Oxford, 1937), 1-27, 101-17, andsthe
pertinent documents in the appendices,
especially on p. 41.
9. M.M. Patrick, The United States
in the Air, P* I77.
10. Baker Board, Final Report,. p!ge
4, omits the American Aviation Misslon,
headed by Benedict Crowell, Assistant
Secretary of War, which reported on 19
July 1919.
1 1 . Quoted in AAF Historical Study
No. 25, Organization of Military Aero-
nautics, 1907-1935 (hereinafter cited as
I . Report of the Secretary of War, AAFHS-zf), p. 71.
12. Dwight W. Morrow, in Commit-
2. Aircraft: Hearings before the tee on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings,
43. Toulmin, op. cit., chap. w.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
1919 (Washington, 1920), pp. 58-75.
President’s Aircraft Board (Washington,
1925) (hereinafter cited as Morrow 1 3 . Public No. 143 (63d Cong.).
14. AAFHS-25, pp. 36-38.Board, Hearings), p. 398.
3. Inquiry into Operations of the U.S.
Air Services: Hearing before Select
Committee of Inquiry into Operatiom of 16- Reports published in Committee
the U.S. Air Services, Home of Repre- on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings:
sentatives (Washington, 1925) (herein- Dickman Board, PP. 952-57; Menoher
after cited as Lampert Committee, Board, PP. 9O8-’7.
Hearing), p. 2262. 17. AAFHS-25, pp. 38-40.
4. Department of Defense and Unifi- 1 8 . Public No. 242 (66th Cong.), in
cation of Air Service: Hearings before 41 Stat. 759-88. Fn respect to the dis-
the Committee on Military Affairs, position of the Crowell report, see the
House of Representatives (Washington, testimony of Howard E. Coffin, a mem-
1926) (hereinafter cited as Committee ber, in Lampert Committee, Hearing,
on Military Affairs, 1926, Hearings), p. 1 2 1 5 .
P* 476. 19. Report of the Secretary of War,
5. See, for example, the Final Report 2919, pp. 68-75.
of War Deparment Special Cf3’Wi.%ittee 20. Quoted in Isaac Don Levine,
On Army Air ‘934) Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power, p. 317.
(hereinafter cited as Baker Board, Final
Report), p. 26.
before the Committee on Military Af-
fairs, House of Representatives (Wash- 23. See, for instance, William Mit-
ington, 19x9) (hereinafter cited as chell, Our Air Force: T h e Keystone of
Committee on Military Affairs, 1919, National Defense (New York, 192i),
Hearings), p. 932. chap. xiv; “Aviation over the Water,”
7. Committee on Military Affairs, American Review o f Reviews, LxII
1926, Hearings, p. 383. (Oct. 1920), 391-98; “Air Power vs. Sea
Power,” ibid., LXIII (Mar. 1921), 273-
8. Lampen Committee, Hearing, P. 78; “Has the Airplane Made the Battle-
2240; cf. pp. 2106, 22509 2 2 5 2 . A list of ship Obsolete?” World’s Work, XL
the Air Service officers testifying before ( A ~ ~ .1921); “Aircraft Dominate Sea-
the several committees would include craft. Saturday Evening post, 24 Jan.
many of the most ardent supporters of 1925,etc.
unification. (See also William Mitchell,
p. 830.
Ibid., p. 41.
2 1 . Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 497.
6. A m y Reorganization: Hearings 22. Levine, Mitchell, pages 401-5?gives
a bibliography Of his
Winged Defense: The Development m d
Possibilities of Modern Air Power-Eco-
24. Mitchell, Winged Defeme, PP’
41-41; Levinel Mitche”, chap. viii.
nomic and Military [New York, 19253,
p. 30.) 269-70.
25. Levine, Mitchell, chap. IX and p p
672

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