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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. 97 …Under it the naval air forces will be based on the fleet and move with it…
  • p. 260 …the ground, personnel of the Far East Air Force fought back as best they could in…
  • p. 267 …force of its ability to assert and maintain control of the air over its own bases…
  • p. 268 …were forced to break away because of a shortage of fuel. One pilot, Lt. William M…
  • p. 359 …By I June the Eleventh Air Force, so designated on 5 February, had been greatly increased…
  • p. 444 …bail out. Lts. William L. Turner and C.L. Reagan were forced into crash land- ings…
  • p. 464 …Available air base personnel were sent out to enlist the aid of local leaders and to…
  • p. 481 …Army Forces in Australia.’ General Brett assumed command of the Allied Air Forces on 2 0…
  • p. 764 …Fifth Air Force, 30 Sept. 1942; Statement of Personal Experience, made by Lt. Col. W.A…
  • p. 776 …A Study of the Origins of the Ninth Air Force, pp. 1-15; Stettinius, Lend-Lease…
  • p. 786 …1942; GO 4, 1 1 , 20, 26, 37, 38, and 5 2 , Fifth Air Force, 6…
  • p. 863 …position, 271-73, 277, 280; staging bases, 336 Western Air Lines, 358 Western Defense Comd., 190…
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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