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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 1 9 - 2 9
55. Report on Air Corps Mission
under the Monroe Doctrine, by the Air
Corps Board, Study No. 44, 17 Oct. 1938.
56. Final Report of Air Corps Board
on Division of Five Year Experimental
Program, 2 3 June 1939.
57. Requirements, as in n. 54.
58. Memo for Col. Loughry from
Lt. Col. Orlando Ward, 25 July 1939, and
reply, 2 7 July.
59. Requirements, as in n. 54.
60. Peace and War, p. 440.
61. Events, p. 219.
62. Peace and War, p. 562.
63. Events, p. 254.
64. Message to the Congress, in Peace
and War, pp. 56467.
65. Agreement signed 27 March 1941
(Events, p. 274).
66. John Bartlet Brebner, North At-
lantic Triangle: The Interplay of Canada,
the United States and Great Britain
(New Haven, 1945).
67. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 1-4.
68. Ibid.; ltr., Sec. of War to the
President, 28 Nov. 1940; Survey of Air
Rase Sites in Newfoundland, 18 0ct.-r
69. Survey of Air Base Sites in New-
foundland, 18 Oct.-I Nov. 1940.
70. Statement by the Department of
State, 10 Apr. 1941, in Peace and War,
p. 641.
71. Text of the Agreement, ibid., pp.
72. Ltr., C/NO to Navy WPD, et al.,
73. Memo for C/S from WPD, Feb.
74. Message to the Congress, in Peace
75. Histories, 33d Fighter Sq. and
76. SPOBS, as in n. 23.
77. 24 November (Events, p. 304).
78. AAF Historical Study No. 42, Air
Defense of the Panama Canal, I Jan.
1939-7 Dec. 1941, passim.
NOV.1940.
642-46.
6 May 1941.
1941.
and W a r , pp. 686-90.
556th Signal Aircraft Warning Bn.
680
79. A m y Air Forces in the W a r
against Japan, ig41-igqz (Washington,
80. AAF Historical Study No. 45,
Development of the South Pacific Air
Route, passim.
81. AAF Historical Study No. 4,
Alaskan Air Defense and the Japanese
Invasion of the Aleutians, pp. 1-27.
‘945)1 pp. 4-7.
82. Peace and War, p. 485.
83. This seems to be borne out by
both AIPO (Gallup) and Fortune polls.
See P.E. Jacob, “Influences of World
Events on US. Neutrality,” Public Opin-
ion Quarterly, IV (March 1940), 63-64.
84. AIPO polls: September 1938, 86
per cent thought the Allies would win;
September 1939, 82 per cent.
85. Jacob, op. cit., p. 61.
86. On an AIPO poll asking “Which
side do you think will win the war if no
other countries go into it?” only 43 per
cent said England (20 July 1940). On
the question of whether the United
States would be drawn into the war, an
AIPO poll of 15 Feb. 1940 reported:
Yes, 3 2 per cent; No, 68 per cent. For-
tune, Aug. 1940, reported: Yes, 43.8 per
cent; No, 44.8 per cent; Don’t Know,
I 1.4 per cent.
87. On this trend see Johnson, op. cit.,
chaps. iv and v. In an AIPO poll of 18
July 1940 on aid to England, 53 per cent
thought we should give more help, 41
per cent that we were giving enough
now, 6 per cent that we were giving
too much.
88. Address by President Roosevelt at
Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and
War, pp. 767-72.
89. Address to the Congress, ibid., p.
449.
90. Address to the Congress, 2 1 Sept.,
ibid., p. 487; Neutrality Act of 4 Nov.,
ibid., pp. 494-506.
91. AAF Reference History No. 6,
Distribution of Air Materiel to the Allies
193B-p4: Controls, Procedures, and
Policies.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid.
94. Ibid.

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