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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. 103 …hour from the Boe- ing plant in Seattle to Dayton-a distance of 2,100 miles…
  • p. 322 …on the preceding night “store windows in Seattle which did not dim were smashed by irate…
  • p. 330 …aircraft plants as those of Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, and Consolidated…
  • p. 335 …submarine- launched aircraft were subsequently used over Seattle.82 A careful study of the evidence suggests…
  • p. 342 …to guard the 1,200 miles from Seattle to San Diego.'" This * See above, pp. 153…
  • p. 350 …advance warning of aircraft approaching the vital Seattle-Bremerton region from across the international border. This…
  • p. 531 …a plane from a submarine to scout Seattle harbor, while another plane checked on Dutch Harbor…
  • p. 858 …Attack Development Unit, Force, 420 Sea Lion, 218 550-51 602 Seattle, 285, 298, 466 783
N O T E S T O P A G E S 58-68
168. Pictorial History of the AAF,
169.Development of the Heavy
Bomber, pp. 8-11, 109.
170.Pictorial History of the AAF,
p. '97.
171. Memo for C/AC from Knerr,
2 3 May 1928; memo for CO zd Wing
from C/AC, 28 May 1928, and indorse-
ments; memo for C/MD from C/AC,
27 June 1928-all cited in Development
of the Heavy Bomber, pp. ~ I O .
172.Development of the Heavy
Bomber, p. 10, with citations to 1st ind.
(memo for C/MD from C/AC, 27 June
1928)~C/MD to C/AC, 21 July 1928;
memo for C/MD from CO zd Bomb.
Gp., 15 Feb. 1929.
173. zd ind. (memo for C/MD from
CJAC, 2 Feb. 1929). C/MD to C/AC, 15
Jan. 1930, cited in Development of
Heavy Bomber, p. 11.
174.Development of Heavy Bomber,
p. 1 1 , with citation to memo for C/AC
from Acting Comdt. ACTS, 19 Mar.
1930,together with zd ind., AC/MD to
C/AC, 1 2 Apr. 1930.
175. Attachment to memo for AS/W,
Procurement Program for the Air Corps
from 1940 to 1945,24 Nov. 1937.
176. See, for example, memo for S/W
from Andrews, Air Corps Procurement
Program, 24 Jan. 1938.
177. See in this connection a historical
account by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick
in memo for AS/W, Conflict of Army
and Navy Programs, 9 Sept. 1927.
178.The governing statements of
policy are found in the Army Appro-
priation Act for 1921 (41 Stat. 954);
Joint Army and Navy Action in Coast
Defense [I~zo];Joint Action of the
b y and the Navy, 23 Apr. 1927.
179.War Department Press Release,
9 Jan. 1931.
180.Annual Report of the Chief of
Staff, in Report of the Secretary of W a r
t o the President, 1931, p. 38.
181. Extract from hearing on H.R.
9920, 2 5 May 1932,in AFSHO collection
of miscellaneous data on Coast Defense,
111.
pp. 196, 198.
676
182.AG 660.2 in OCAC 370.3, Pro-
tection of Seacoast (1921-34).Note sup-
plied through the courtesy of Dr.
William A. Goss.
183.Memo for AC/S, WPD from
C/AC, 14 Nov. 1932;The Present Status
of Military Aviation and Its Trend of
Development, a lecture for delivery at
Army War College, 12 Sept. 1933, by
Maj. Gen. B.D. Foulois.
184.Memo for C/S from WPD, 28
185. Report of the GHQ Air Force
(Provisional), 1933 [no exact date given].
Quotations from pp. 5 , 6, 12-13.
NOV.1932.
186.Ibid., p. 12.
187. Memo for DC/S from C/AC, 1 2
Dec. 1933.
188. AG 112.05 (II-I~-~z),Sec. 2 ;
memo for C/S from DC/S, 1 2 May 1934.
189.See under that date, OCAC 452.1,
Heavy Bomber.
190.Memo for C/AC from MD, 4
Feb. 1935; Contract W535 ac-7618, 29
191.Memo for AG from C/AC, 8
192.Contract W 5 3 5 ac-8306, 17 Jan.
1936; Materiel Division chart, Status of
Deliveries of Airplanes on 1936 Procure-
ment Progdm [19381;War Department
Special Quarterly Report of Airplanes
[by Materiel Division, Wright Field],
as of 3 1 Mar., 30 June, 30 Sept. 1937;
Development of the Heavy Bomber,
pp. 18, 117-18,with citations there to
memo for AG from C/AC, I Oct. 1935;
1st ind. (memo for AG from AC/AC,
8 Nov. 1935), A G to C/AC, 2 1 Nov.
1935; and 000.93 (Special), Accident-
Wright, 30 Oct. 1935.
193.According to information sub-
sequently provided for General Amold,
Admiral Pratt's successor, Adm. William
H. Standley, promptly repudiated the
agreement. (Memo for Henry H. Arnold
from Maj. R.G. Hoyt, 1 1 Mar. 1936.)
194.J.B. No. 349 (Serial No. 539);
Joint Action of the Army and Navy,
'935-
195,3d ind. (ltr., Lt. Col. Olds to
CG zd Wing, GHQAF), 26 July 1937.
June 1935.
NOV.1935.

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