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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 69-92
1 1 . Col. Guida R. Perera, A Legisla-
tive History of Aviation in the United
States and Abroad, Oct. 1940.
1 2 . Louis A. Sigaud, Douhet and
Aerial Warfare (New York, 1941),pp.
1-25.
13. Notes on the Italian Air Force, as
cited in n. 9; military attachk report,
Italy, No. 17115, 30 June 1939.
14.C.G. Grey, Bombers (London,
1 5 . Zbid.; military attachk report,
Italy, No. 1 7 1 1 5 ; OCAC Intel. Sec.,
Notes on Foreign Aviation for General
Arnold, 4 Mar. 1938.
16.Notes on Foreign Aviation for
General Arnold.
17. Notes on the Italian Air Force.
18. Lt. Cols. Leslie H. Arps and
Frank V. Quigley, The Origin, Develop-
ment, and Organization of the Luftwaffe,
I Oct. 1945,in special file cited in n. 9.
19. Zbid.; Air Ministry, Notes on the
German Air Force, Apr. 1943,U.S. Navy
reprint.
20. Notes on the German Air Force.
z I . Ibid.; USSBS, Over-all Report
(European W a r ) , 30 Sept. 1945.
z z . The best published account is
Asher Lee, T h e German A i r Force
(New York and London, 1946).
2 3 . Arps and Quigley report; Notes
on the German Air Force.
24. Arps and Quigley report; Perera,
op. cir.
z5. USSBS, Over-all Keport (Euro-
pean W a r ) ; Lee, op. cir.
26. Lee, op. cit.
27. USSBS, Over-all Report (Euro-
pean W a r ) ; The German Campaign in
Poland, September I to October 5 , 1939,
W D Digests and Lessons of Recent
Military Operations, 3 1 Mar. 1942.
28. Arps and Quigley report; Notes
on the German Air Force; USSBS, Over-
all Report (European W a r ) .
29. Notes on the French Air Force,
n.d., in special file cited in n. 9.
30. Col. John M. Harlan and Lt. Col.
Leslie H. Arps, The Creation of the Air
Ministry and the Royal Air Force as a
'94')r pp. 77-78.
67 7
196.Attachment to memo for AS/W,
Procurement Program for the Air Corps
from 1940 to 1945,24 Nov. 1937.
197.See papers on loo-mile limit in
special file of Brig. Gen. Frederic H.
Smith, Jr., and below, chap. 15.
198.Ltr., A G to C/AC, 29 Sept. 1936.
199.AAF Biennial Report, 1939-41;
Pictorial History of the A A F , p. 198.
zoo. Memo for Budget Office by Maj.
B.E. Myers, 1 2 Oct. 1939; cf. Contract
W535 ac-IoI55, 17 Aug. 1937, and
Status of Deliveries of Airplanes on
1936 Procurement Program [19381;War
Department Special Quarterly Report of
Airplanes, 3 1 Dec. 1937-30 Sept. 1939.
2 0 1 . Memo for A G from C G
GHQAF, I June 1937,cited in Develop-
ment of the Heavy Bomber, p. 2 3 .
2 0 2 . Memo for S/W, Air Corps Pro-
curement Program, 24 Jan. 1938. The
problem under discussion was the Air
Corps procurement program, 1940-45.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 3
I . Editorial in US.A i r Serwices, Jan.
2 . Air Ministry, Organization of the
Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces,
Feb. 1945,pp. 1-2; USSBS draft study,
Japanese Air Power, 29 Mar. 1946.
1942, pp. 1-2.
3. USSBS, Japanese Air Power.
4. Intel. Div., WDGS, Military Sum-
mary of Far East, Vol. 11-8 (June 1946).
5 . USSBS, Japanese Air Power;
USSBS (Pacific), Interrogation 428, 23
Nov. 1945;The Japanese Air Force, LO
Sept. 1941,in AFSHO files.
6. USSBS, Japanese Air Power.
7. Zbid.; M I S , Japanese Ground and
Air Forces, Info. Bulletin 14, I May
1942;Organization of the Japanese Army
and Navy Air Forces, pp. 2-4.
8. USSBS, Japanese Air Power.
9. Notes on the Italian Air Force, in
special file of Brig. Gen. Frederic H.
Smith, Jr.
10. MID, Comparative Air Power of
Leading Nations, 14 Jan. 1939.

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