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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.

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  • 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…
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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