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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
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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