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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.
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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. 675
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