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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.
“The Invaders”15 pages
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 0 5 - 1 9 Aviation Objective, 14 Mar. 1941.Public announcement of the 84 Group Program came on 2 3 October 1941. For a more detailed discussion of these successive programs see draft AAF Historical Study, Development of AAF Base Facili- ties, 1 9 3 ~ 4 s . 14. AAF Directory of Groups. 15. Address by Arnold at the Indus- 16. Ibid. 17. Message to the Congress, in Peace and W a r , p. 530; Materiel Div., Summary of Current Air Corps Programs, 19 July ‘940. 18. Arnold address as cited in n. 15. 19. Materiel Div., Consolidated Statis- tical Report, Sec. I, Pt. 7, 30 Sept. 1941. 20. Special AAF Historical Study, Review of Aerial Warfare for the Scien- tific Advisory Board (Jan. 1945). trial W a r College, 1 3 Feb. 1941. 2 1 . AAFHS-22, p. 46. 22. Review of Aerial Warfare; Re- port of CG AAF to Sec. of W a r , 3 Jan. ‘944. 23. History, SPOBS Prior to Activa- tion of ETO. 24. Data taken from Tactical Plan- ning: Characteristics and Performance Chart. There were other tactical planes in production. These were the ones upon which the AAF depended most. 25. For a complete list see Aircraft in Use in the Royal Air Force by Types, Oct. 1941,incl. to ltr., G/C D.F. Ander- son to Maj. J.T. Clement, 10 Oct. 1941. 26. Peace and War, p. 81. 27. AAF Historical Study No. 10, Organization of the Army Air Arm, 28. AAF Historical Study No. 15, Procurement of Aircrew Trainees, pp. 8-9; A G 580 (3-7-41) M-C-M to C G GHQAF and C/AC, Army’s Second Aviation Objective, 14 Mar. 1941; PRO releases, 14 June 1940 and 2 3 Oct. 1941. 29. History, Central Flying Training Command, I Jan. 1939-7 Dec. 1941, pp. 27-31; History, West Coast Air Corps Training Center, 8 July 1940-7 Dec. ‘935-437 p. 81. 19419 pp* 10-54- 30. History, West Coast Air Corps Training Center, 8 July 1940-7 Dec. 3 1 . AAF Historical Study NO. 7, Legislation Relating to the AAF Train- ing Program, 1939 to 1943, pp. 39ff. 3 2 . Arnold statement as cited in n. 7. 3 3 . AAF Historical Study No. 26, Individual Training in Aircraft Mainte- nance in the AAF, pp. 2-11. 34. History, West Coast Air Corps Training Center, 8 July 1940-7 Dec. 194’7 pp. 301-4. 35. History, AAF Technical Train- ing Command. 36. History, West Coast Air Corps Training Center, 8 July 1940-7 Dec. 1941, Pp. 1’3-54. 19419 PP. 298-997 301-4. 37. Ibid., pp. 197-204. 38. AAFHS-10, pp. 1-15. 39. Report of CG AAF to Sec. of 40. AR 95-5, 20 June 1941. 41. AAFHS-10, pp. 15-31. 41. Zbid. 43. Quoted in History, Central Flying Training Command, I Jan. 1939-7 Dec. ‘941, p. 1. 44. Biennial Report, C/S to Sec. of War, I July 1941. 45. Peace and War, p. 404. 46. Zbid., p. 448. 47. Ibid., p. 405. 48. See “National Defense Strategy, If Britain Should Lose,” T i m e , 2 2 July 1940, pp. 19-22; Johnson, op. cit., pp. 89-92. W a r , 3 Jan. 1944. 49. Peace and W a r , p. 452. 5 0 . Zbid., pp. 517-32. 51, Joint Action of the Army and Navy, I I Sept. 1935. 5 2 . Report of the Air Corps Board, Study No. 44, 17 Oct. 1938. 53. Memo for AC/S, WPD, Air Force Study, 14 Mar. 1939, in AAG 321, Misc. Staff, Corps, or Dept. 54. Requirements Army Aviation for Hemisphere Defense, 3 June 1940, in AAG 381, War Plans. 679
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