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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
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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