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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. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 26-38
26. Ibid., pp. 271-72 and 287-90; 5 1 . Ibid., p. 88.
27. AAFHS-25, pp. 56-58.
28. Report of the Secretary of W a r ,
1921 (Washington, 1921), pp. 183 ff.; W a r , 1931 (Washingon, 1931)v P. 38.
Report of the Secretary of W a r , 19.22
(Washington, 19221,p. 163.
29. Report of the S I W , 1922, p. 261.
30. Zbid.
31. AAFHS-25, pp. 60-61. See also
text in N e w York T m e s , 19 Oct. 1923.
32. AAFHS-25, p. 62.
33. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 29399.
34. AAFHS-25, pp. 63-64.
35. 1bid.j pp. 65-67;Mitchell, Winged
36. AAFHS-25, pp. 62-63.
37. TO the Lampert Committee, 1935-43,pp. 4-6.
Patrick advocated a separate air force, 61. pp. 6-8.
not for the present but to be formed
after five or ten years. (Lampert Com-
mittee, Hearing, p. 533.) By 1928he was
(Patrick, United States in the Air, pp.
190-91.)
38. Charges of intimidation were
denied by interested authorities but seem
to have been well founded. (See Lampert
Committee, Hearing, passim and espe-
cially pp. 1667,1829,2377.)
39. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 30e317.
40. Ibid., pp. 318-20.
41. Ibid., chaps. 12-13.
4’. p’ 33‘, quoting New
43. AAFHS-25, pp. 68-69.
44. Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 2.
45. s. Doc. 18 (69th Cong.7 1st sess.).
See also text in N e w York Times, 3 Dec.
‘925.
46. H. Report 1653 (68th Cong., 2d
sess.); contents analyzed in N e w York
Times, 14 Dec. 1925.
Mitchell, Winged Defense, pp. 73-75. 52. War Department Press Release,
9 Jan. 1931;Annual Report of the Chief
Of Staff, in Report of the Secretfly O f
53. AAFHS-25, PP. 91-92.
54. Ibid., p. 93.
55. Baker Board, Final Report, 18
56.]bid., pp, 18-19.
57. Ibid., p. 75.
58.AAFHS-25, pp. 96-98.
59. Ibid., pp. 98-99.T h e reorganiza-
tion was authorized by AGO letter of
31 December 1934.
60.AAF Historical Study No. 10,
Organization of the Army Air Arm,
July 1934.
Defense, p. XIX.
62.‘bid., PP. 8-15.
63.Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 445.
favoring the Depament Of Ddense. 64. Maj. Warren R, Carter, AC, Em-
ployment of
1938.
65. Howard E. Coffin, quoted in
A.W. Sweetser, The American Air serv-
ice, p. 79.
66. Mitchell, “Our Army’s Air Serv-
ice,” American Review of Reviews,
LXII (Sept. 1920),pp. 281-90.
~i~ F ~ ~ ~ ~I2
67.Ibid.
68.Mitchell, Our Air Force: The
Keystone of National Defense, p. 12.
69.Mitchell, “The Air Service at St.
Mihiel,” World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Aug.
rg19), p. 365.
70. Mitchell, ‘(our h m y ’ s Air Serv-
ice;* lot. tit.
71. Mitchell, “The Air Service at St.
Mihiel,” lot. tit.
72. H.A. Jones, T h e W a r in the
Air, VI, 136.
73. Ibid.
74. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 148-50.
75. J.J. Pershin& MY Experiences in
76.Mitchell, Our Air Force, p. 55.
77. Ibid., Introduction, p. xxii.
Evening Post.
47. AAFHS-25, pp. 73-77.
48. Public No. 446 (69th Cong., in 44
Stat. 780ff.).
49. AAFHS-25, p. 83. The Baker
Board’s Final Report, page 7, laid the
blame on Congress.
the World W a r , 11, 337.
50. AAFHS-25, p. 8s.
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