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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. 537 …of Air Staff, Plans, Col. Orvil A. Anderson, had in preparation a study of the possibility…
  • p. 757 …Cole O d l e Anderson, CaPt. Ball, Capt. Moss, and himself. The im- portance of…
  • p. 770 …AFSHO files. 9. Lt. Col. O.A. Anderson, AWPD, Air Forces Estimate of the Situation, 1…
  • p. 797 …for C/AS from Col. O.A. Anderson, AC/AS, Plans, 25 June 1942. General Marshall…
  • p. 812 …for Col. George from Maj. S.E. Anderson, Research Regarding Bomber-Fighter Combats in Europe, 1…
  • p. 818 …AC/S, OPD from Col. O.A. Anderson, 10 July 1942. 197. Key Plan for the…
  • p. 840 …5 1 2 Andaman Is., 500, 503 Anderson, Col. 0. A., 472 Andes, 639 Andres, Pvt…
1 3 3 . Air Corps Board Study No. 31,
29 Oct. 1936, approved by Maj. Gen.
Oscar Westover, 2s Nov. 1936.
134. Air Corps Board Study No. 4,
1 7 Oct. 1938.
135. ACTS study, as cited in n. 129.
136. Interview with Brig. Gen. H.S.
137. lbid.
138. Warner, op. c k , p. 489.
139. Maj. W.H. Frank, Doctrine of
the Employment of an Aerial Force,
quoted by Brig. Gen. H.S. Hansell from
ACTS lectures, in Development of the
US Air Force Philosophy of Air War-
fare Prior to World War 11, in special
file of Brig. Gen. Frederic H. Smith, Jr.
[Notes 140 through 147 are drawn from
the same compilation; citation is made
to the lecturer, title of lecture, and date
of school year.]
140. Frank, loc. cit.; cf. Capt. H.L.
George, Air Force Objectives, 1934-3s.
141. Frank, loc. cit.
142. lbid.; cf. Lt. L.S. Kuter, The
Influence of Air Power on Naval War-
fare, 1936.
Hansell by B.C. Hopper, 5 Oct. 1943.
143. George, loc. cit.
144. Maj. Donald Wilson (title un-
known), 1933-34; George, General Air
Force Principles, 1933-34.
145. George, General Air Force Prin-
ciples, 1933-34; cf. Lt. H.S. Hansell, The
Functions of Air Power in Our National
Strategy, 1935-36.
146. Hansell, Functions of Air Power
in Our National Strategy; cf. Maj. M.S.
Fairchild, Immediate Support of Ground
Operations, 1937-38.
147. George, Air Force Objectives.
148. Interview with Brig. Gen. H.S.
Hansell by B.C. Hopper, 5 Oct. 1943;
Jurisdictional Relationships between G-2
and A-2, Historical Summary and Basic
Papers, in AFSHO files.
149. T R 4 0 - 1 5 , Sec. I, par. 7.
150. See n. 64, this chapter.
1 5 1 . J.B. No. 349, 29 June 1938.
152. Special AAF Historical Study,
Comparative History of Research and
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 9 - 5 8
Development Policies Affecting Air Ma-
teriel, 1915-1944 (June r % ~ ) , p. 46;
Office of Statistical Control, Army Air
Forces Statistical Digest, World War 11
(Dec. 1945)~p. 297.
153. See sources in n. 152.
154. Comparative History of Research
and Development Policies, pp. 25-30 and
sources cited there.
155. History, Materiel Command,
156. Comparative History of Research
157. lbid., pp. 56-61.
158. lbid., pp. 41, 103-4; AAF His-
torical Study No. 66, Development of
Radio and Radar Equipment for Air
Operations, 1939-4.
159. Comparative History of Research
and Development Policies, pp. 67-68,
7-72.
160. Memo for Engineering Div. by
Acting Chief, Supply Gp., 3 Oct. 1921,
quoted in draft ATSC historical study,
Development of Bombing Equipment
(March 1945). chap. iii, p. 5. See also
Comparative History of Research and
Development Policies, p. 3 I.
161. AAF Historical Study No. 2 2 ,
Legislation Relating to the AAF Materiel
Program, 1939-44, App. I.
162. AAF Statistical Digest (Dec.
1%5), p. 297; Comparative History of
Research and Development Policies, p.
46.
163. The Bryden Board Report. See
draft AAF Historical Study, Develop-
ment of the Heavy Bomber, 1918-44,
164. For a very useful listing, with
specifications, of the major types of
planes used by the Air Service and Air
Corps, see The OfFcial Pictorial History
of the AAF (New York, 19471, pp. 170-
213.
1916-41.
and Development Policies, pp. 41-42.
PP. 35-36.
165. lbid., p. 196.
166. Development of the Heavy
Bomber, p. 107.
167. Memo for C/AS from C/ED,
10 Jan. 1926, cited in Development of the
Heavy Bomber, p. 104.
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