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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. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
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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