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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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