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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. 28 …PARNAMIRIMFIELD,NATAL,BRAZIL,JUNE1942 . . . BLUIE WEST I , JUNE 1942 . . . . . . . . . . REYKJAVIKAIRFIELD,ICELAND,APRILI 942 . . . . . . THENIGHTSHIFT,PATTERSONFIELD,ICELAND…
  • p. 157 …Brazil offered a likely avenue of approach. Natal, a focal point for established trans-Atlantic air…
  • p. 371 …Pivoting at Natal, it had to traverse an additional 6,000 miles in order to reach…
  • p. 375 …Panair do Brasil, a Pan American subsidiary, had undertaken at Belem and Natal the development with…
  • p. 376 …From Belem, the ten transports proceeded to Natal and thence across the Atlantic to Bathurst. All…
  • p. 378 …Miami-San Juan (Puerto Rico) -Port of Spain (Trinidad) - Belem-Natal-Fisherman’s Lake (Liberia) -Lagos…
  • p. 384 ATKINSON FIELD, BRITISH GUIANA, JUNE 1942 PARNAMIRIM FIELD, NATAL, BRAZIL, JUNE 1942
  • p. 385 …The two bases a t Belem and Natal, built with airport development program funds by the…
  • p. 386 …The most feasible route was determined to be from Natal to Ascension Island to Pointe Noire…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 413 …In order to avoid piling up a heavy backlog of cargo and passengers at Natal, it…
  • p. 414 …L D W A R I 1 Natal toward the end of June, at which time…
  • p. 854 …78 Narsarssuak, 157, 343, 641 Nassau, 355 Natal, 120, 319, 321-22, 324, 3 2 ~ 3…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 8 - 4 9
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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