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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
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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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