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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 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
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