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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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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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