The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

N O T E S T O P A G E S 9 3 - 1 0 5
Separate Branch of the British Military
Services, I May 1944, in special file cited
in n. 9; Hilary St. George Saunders, Per
Ardua: T h e Rise of British A i r Power,
1911-1939 (London, 19451, pp. ZIO, 259,
3 17-2 I .
31. Saunders, Per Ardun.
32. Special AAF Historical Study, Re-
view of Aerial Warfare for the Scientific
Advisory Board (Jan. 1945).
33. Arps and Quigley report.
34. For the following account see
T h e Battle of Britain, British Air Minis-
try account (New York, 1941); USSBS,
Over-all Report (European W a r ); Arps
and Quigley report.
35. USSBS, Over-all Report (Euro-
pean War);and T h e Effects of Strategic
Bombing on German W a r Economy
36. “Since the Battle of Britain,” RAF
37. Notes on the German Air Force.
38. Notes on the Russian Air Force,
in special file cited in n. 9.
39. Arps and Quigley report; Notes
on the German Air Force.
40. Air Ministry, Royal A i r Force
W a r Manual, Pt.I, Operations, Air Pub-
lication 1300, Feb. 1940.
41. [bid.; Production of Heavy Bomb-
ers in the United States of America
(British source, n.d.), in AFSHO files.
42. AL (41) 8th Mtg., War Cabinet,
American Liaison, 21 Nov. 1941; J.B. No.
325 (Serial No. 729), 25 Sept. 1941, Joint
Board to SPOBS, Comments on General
(Oct. 1945).
Journal, No. 11 (Sept. 1943)~p. 10.
Strategy, Review by the British Chiefs of
Staff.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
I. Message to the Congress, in State
Dept. collection of documents, Peace and
W a r : U.S. Foreign Policy, i931-1941
(Washington, 1943), pp. 403-5.
2 . Message to the Congress, I Z Jan.
1939, ibid., pp. 451-54.
3. On this general topic see Walter
Johnson, T h e Battle against Isolation
678
(Chicago, 1944). This book shows the
close relations between Roosevelt and
the Committee T o Defend America by
Aiding the Allies.
4. O n 5 September. Events Leading up
to W o r l d W a r 11, H. Doc. 541 (78th
Cong., zd sess.), p. 215 (hereinafter cited
as Events).
5 . Lend-Lease Directive No. I.
6. Peace and W a r , p. 452.
7. Statement of Maj. Gen. H.H.
Arnold, Chief of the Air Corps, Relative
to Air Corps Estimates for Fiscal Year
1941, dated 3/1/40.
8. AAF Historical Study No. 16, Leg-
islation Relating to the AAF Personnel
Program, 1939 to May 1944, pp. 1-12;
AAF Historical Study No. 22, Legislation
Relating to the AAF Materiel Program,
pp. ~ p - 2 0 ; N e w York Times, 5 Apr. 1939.
9. Report of Commanding General
A A F t o Secretary of W a r , 3 Jan. 1944;
N e u York Times, 5 Apr. 1939.
10. Arnold statement as cited in n. 7;
address of Maj. Gen. H.H. Arnold before
graduating class, Air Corps Tactical
School, 5 Dec. 1939. The appropriations
necessary for the undertaking of this
program, also known at times as the 2 5
Group Program, were provided by Public
No. 18 (76th Cong., 1st sess.), 53 Stat.
5 5 5 , 3 Apr. 1939, and Public No. 164,
53 Stat. 9949 I July 1939.
11. The 41 Group Program became
actually an integral part of the 54 Group
Program. Public No. 611 (76th Cong.,
3d sess.), 54 Stat. 350, 13 June 1940, and
Public No. 667, 54 Stat. 599, 26 June 1940,
appropriated funds covering the per-
sonnel and aircraft requirements of no
more than forty-one groups. That figure
remained the limit for which funds had
been appropriated until Public No. 800
(76th Cong., 3d sess.), 54 Stat. 965, 8 Oct.
1940, provided funds covering the differ-
ence between a 41-group and 54-group
objective.
12. A G 580 (628-40) M-F to C/AC,
Army’s First Aviation Objective, 29 June
1940; memo for C/S from Brig. Gen.
B.K. Yount, AC/AC, 6 Aug. 1940.
GHQAF and C/AC, Army’s Second
13. A G 580 (3-7-41) M-C-M to C G