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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 1 7 5 - 8 7 VJPD (unsigned), 29 Nov. 1941, both in AFSHO files. 70. Memo for Brig. Gen. C.L. Tinker from Lt. Col. K.N. Walker, 13 Dec. 1941; Hawaiian Department, Standard Operating Procedure, 5 Nov. 1941. 71. Radg. No. 1033, Short to C/AC, 4 Dec. 1941; radg. No. 1105, Short to TAG, 10 Dec. 1941; AAF i n the W a r against Japan, 1941--1942, p. 7. 72. Statement of Sec. of War Stimson to Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, N e w York Times, 2 2 Mar. 1946. 73. AAF in the W a r against Japan, 1941-1944 p. 4. 74. AAFRH-XI, p. 8. 75. lbid., pp. 4-5. 76. T h e American Yearbook, 1940, 77. lbid. 78. AAFRH-11, pp. 6-10. 79. Stimson statement as cited in n. 72. 80. AAFRH-11, pp. 10-12; memo for C/S by Arnold, 18 July 1941. 81. AAFRH-11, pp. 12--20. 82. Zbid., 20-24. 83. AAF Historical Study No. 45, Development of the South Pacific Air Route, passim. 84. Memo for C/AS from H.L.G. [Harold L. George], 17 Nov. 1941. 85. AAFRH-11, pp. 2629. 86. Fourth Air Force Historical 87. AAFRH-11, pp. 2 ~ 3 4 . 88. lbid., p. 35; AAFHS-45, pp. 37-38. 89. AAFRH-11, p. 36. See also Lewis H. Brereton, T h e Brereton Diaries, 3 October 1941-8 May 1945 (New York, 90. T h e Brereton Diaries, pp. 36-37; radg. No. 249. T A G to CG USAFFE, ca. 29 Sept. 1941; radg. No. 498, 1Mac- Arthur to TAG, 6 Oct. 1941. 91. AAFRH-11, p. 37; JBWP-Rs-A, Revision of RAINBOW No. 5 , approved by Joint Board, 19 Nov. 1941; ltr., C/S to CG USAFFE, 21 Nov. 1941. pp. 15-16. Study IV-I, Vol. I. 19461, pp. 25-31. 684 92. AAFRH-11, pp. 37-38, 49; R&R, C/AS to CG AFCC, 14 Nov. 1941; msg., Adams to CG Hawaiian Dept., 14 Nov. 1941; msg. #848, Martin to TAG, 15 Nov. 1941; memo for C/S from Spaatz, 2 2 Nov. 1941, concurred in by AC/S, G-3, 2 3 Nov., and WPD, 26 Nov.; ltr., Arnold to Martin, I Dec. 1941; ltr., MacArthur to Marshall, I Dec. 1941. 1941; R&R, C/AS to OCAC, 15 NOV. 93. AAFRH-11, p. 41 ff. 94. Ltr., Hq. Air Force USAFFE to all post, group, and separate squadron commanders, 10 and 1 1 Nov. 1941. 95. History, 24th Pursuit Gp. 96. Memo for C/S by Spaatz, 13 Nov. 1941; msg. #919, MacArthur to TAG, 21 Nov. 1941; History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; History, V Fighter Command. Accord- ing to Col. A.H. Campbell, who was pri- marily responsible for development of warning and communications facilities in the Philippines, it was planned to establish nineteen radar stations as fol- lows: eight on Luzon, three on Min- danao, and one each on Lubang, Samar, Palawan, Jolo, Basilan, Tablas, Panay, and Negros islands. In addition to the two sets in operation on 8 December, one U.S. Marine mobile set was going into position on Batangas bay and would be in operation on 10 December, one had just reached position at Burgos in northern Luzon, two (one fixed and the other mobile) were going into position at Jose Panganiban in Camarines Norte, and one, lacking a power plant, was in storage. (Notes supplied R.L. Watson in an interview with Col. Campbell, 1 1 July 97. Msg., ABDA 522A, Brereton to Arnold, 2 2 Feb. 1942; memos for Gen. Marshall from Maj. Gen. J.A. Green, 5 and 7 Nov. 1941;report by Lt. Col. S.M. Mellnik, AA in the Philippines, in His- tory, Fifth Air Force and Its Predeces- sors, Pt. I , Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, App. l'I, Doc. 24; ltr., MacArthur to Marshall, I Dec. 1941. 98. Statement by Lt. Col. Ray Els- more, in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , App. 11, Doc. 30 a; unrecorded interview with Brig. Gen. Francis M. Brady by Maj. R.L. Watson, 7 Dec. 1944; ltr., '947.)
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