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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…
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78. Mitchell, “Air Power vs. Sea
Power,” American Review of Reviews,
LXIII (Mar. 19211, p. 273.
79. Mitchell, Our Air Force, p. 15.
80. Ibid., pp. 174ff.i and developed
further in his Winged Defense, pp. 10-11.
81. Mitchell, Our Air Force, p. 161.
82. Mitchell, “Our Army’s Air Serv-
83. Winged Defense, Introduction,
84. Ibid., p. vii.
85. Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 499;
Mitchell, “Airplanes in National De-
fense,” Annals of the American Acad-
emy of Political Science, Vol. 1 3 1 (May
ice,” p. 288.
pp. xv-xvi.
1927), 3&42*
86. lbid.
87. Ibid.
88. Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 499.
89. “Airplanes in National Defense,”
90. Winged Defense, p. 12.
91. Ibid., p. 216.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid., p. 10.
94. Ibid., p. 12.
95. Ibid., p. 214.
96. Mitchell, Skyways (Philadelphia,
1930), pp. 271, 278.
97. Winged Defense, p. 16.
98. Skyways, p. 253.
99. Ibid., p. 255.
100. Ibid., p. 269.
1 0 1 . Ibid., p. 256.
102. Ibid., p. 269.
103. For an analysis and evaluation,
see Edward Warner, “Douhet, Mitchell,
Seversky: Theories of Air Warfare,” in
E.M. Earle, Makers of Modern Strategy
(Princeton, 19441, pp. 485-583.
104. Quoted by Brig. Gen. Hugh A.
Drum in Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 2 1 .
105. Report of the Secretary of W a r ,
1919, p. 70.
106. See, for example, his letter to
Menoher, Director of Air Service, 1 2
Jan. 1920, and his Final Report of 1 2
loc. cit.
674
Sept. 1924, both quoted in Morrow
Board, Hearings, pp. 2 3 , 25.
107. Field Service Regulations, U. S.
Army (Washington, 19241, p. 77.
108. Ibid.
109. Ibid., p. 1 1 .
1 1 0 . Ibid.
I I I . Ibid., pp. 22-23.
1 1 2 . Ibid., p. 2 2 .
113. lbid., p. 23.
I 14. See accompanying letter, ibid.,
1 1 5 . TR 440-15, Sec. I, 4.
116. lbid., I, 4; and 111, 14.
117. Air Service Tactical School,
Langley Field, Va., Bombardment
(Washington, 19261, p. 54.
118. Ibid., pp. 64, 72.
119. Ltr., Lt. Col. C.C. Culver, Comdt.
ACTS to C/AC, 30 Apr. 1928.
120. 1st ind. (ibid.), OCAC to Comdt.
ACTS, I Sept. 1928.
1 2 1 . The Air Force, pp. 50, 100,
quoted in Richard Stockton, Inevitable
W a r (New York, 19321, pp. 531-32.
122. Drum Board Report, quoted in
Baker Board, Final Report, pp. 11-15.
123. Ibid., p. 12.
124. J.B. No. 349 (Serial 539), 26
Sept. 1934.
125. Joint Action of the Army and
Navy, 1 1 Sept. 1935.
126. Ltr., Douglas MacArthur, C/S
to C G s of Armies, GHQAF, et ul.,
127. Quoted in memo for C/AC from
Brig. Gen. C.E. Kilbourne, AC/S, WPD,
2 1 Dec. 1934.
128. Submitted with memo cited
above.
129. Memo for Exec. OCAC from
Maj. Carl Spaatz, Chief, Training and
Operations Div., 5 p n . 1935; ACTS
Study of Proposed Air Corps Doctrine
Submitted by WPD, WDGS, 3 1 Jan.
‘935.
p. iii.
I7 O C t . 1934.
130. TR 44-15, Sec. nI,6.
131. Submitted with ACTS study, as
cited in n. 129.
132. Ibid.

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