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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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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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