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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…
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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