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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 5 8 - 7 5
50. 9th ind. (%id.), C/AAF to TAG,
16 Sept. 1941.
51. Alaska-Hawaii Journal, in AFSHO
files.
52. History, XI Air Force Service
Command.
53. History, 36th Bomb. Sq. to 7 Dec.
'94'.
54. History, XI' Air Force Service
Command.
5 5 . AAF Historical Study No. 41,
Operational History of the Seventh Air
Force; 7 Dec. 1941-6 Nov. 1943, p. I.
56. Report of Army-Navy Board,
Hawaii, 3 1 Oct. 1941.
57. AAFHS-41, p. 2 .
58. Administrative History, Hq. Sev-
enth Air Force, 1916-May 1944.
59. Biennial Report, C/S to Sec. of
War, I July 1941-30 June 1943.
60. Radg. No. 2032, Herron to TAG,
31 Dec. 1940.
61. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
IV-I, Processing and Ferrying Functions
of the Fourth Air Force through the
Year 1941, Vol. I.
62. AAF Reference History No. 1 1 ,
Army Air Action in the Philippines and
Netherlands East Indies, 1941-42, p. 13.
tory, First Air Force, 111, Pt. 10, 12-15;
R&R, C/AS to A-4, 8 Dec. 1941.
26. History, First Air Force, IIr, Pt.
10, 15-18.
27. Operations Plan of Iceland Base
Command, I Aug. 1941; J.B. No. 325
(Serial 697-1).
28. Memo for Brig. Gen. Clarence L.
Tinker from Arnold, 9 Sept. 1941; ltr.,
Tinker to C/AAF, 7 Oct. 1941.
29. Memo for AC/AS, A-3 from
Spaatz, 31 Oct. 1941.
30. Memo for Gen. Marshall from
Col. H.W. Shelmire, 8 Nov. 1941.
31. R&R, AWPD to A-I, 2 Dec. 1941.
32. AAF Historical Study No. 42,
Air Defense of the Panama Canal, I Jan.
1939-7 Dec. 1941, pp. 127, 187, 198.
33. Zbid., pp. I, 10-11, 60-61.
34. Zbid., pp. 26-28, 38, 82-86, 113,
35. Ltr., T A G to Chief of Engineers,
36. T h e Bermuda Defense Project
37. Approved Garrisons, Overseas
38. AAFHS-42, pp. 171-72.
39. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
40. The Panama Canal Defense Proj-
41. AAFHS-42, pp. 1 1 2 , 193-94.
42. Zbid., pp. 125, 180-98.
43. AAF Historical Study No. 4,
Alaskan Air Defense and the Japanese
Invasion of the Aleutians, App. A.
44. History, Eleventh Air Force; His-
tory, XI Air Force Service Command.
45. AAFHS-4, pp. IC-15, 27-28.
46. Ibid., pp. 11-15, 23.
47. Zbid., pp. 18-19, 38-39, 97-102;
History, Alaskan Div., A T C to 7 Dec.
194'.
48. History, 59th Gp., 3d Wing,
AACS, 1 1 Jan.-8 Dec. 1941.
49. 7th ind. (original Itr. not listed),
Hq. Western Defense Command to
TAG, 10 Sept. 1941, in AFSHO files.
161-62, 171.
3 Apr. 1941.
(Initial), 16 Apr. 1941.
Bases, 9 Oct. 1941.
10, r5-18.
ect, 1941, rev. I Dec. 1941.
63. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
IV-I, Vol. I.
64. Report of Army-Navy Board,
Hawaii.
65. Excerpts from Joint Action of the
Army and Navy, cited in memo for Brig,
Gen. C.L. Tinker by Lt. Col. K.N.
Walker, 13 Dec. 1941.
66. Joint Coastal Frontier Defense
Plan-Hawaiian Coastal Frontier, 20 Aug.
1941, cited in memo in n. 65.
67. Ltr., Maj. Gen. F.L. Martin to CG
AAF, 14 Aug. 1941,with A Plan for the
Employment of Bombardment Aviation
in the Defense of Oahu.
68. Memo for Gen. Gerow, W P D
from Rear Adm. R.K. Turner, Director
of Navy WPD, 25 Oct. 1941; memo for
AC/S, W P D (unsigned), 30 Oct. 1941,
in AFSHO files.
69. Radg. No. 967, Ft. Shafter to
TAG, 2 8 Nov. 1941; memo for AC/S,
683

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