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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 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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