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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 8 7 - 9 6
MacArthur to Marshall, 29 Nov. 1941;
unrecorded interview with Col. Cecil E.
Combs by Maj. R.L. Watson, 19 Jan.
'945.
99. Ltr., MacArthur to Marshall, 29
Nov. 1941; 1st ind. (ltr., Chief, AAF
Historical Office to CG Third Air Force,
50 Jan. 1946), Brereton to Paul; Brady
interview, as in n. 98; statement of Col.
R.L. Fry, 5th Air Base Gp., 18 Apr. 1944,
in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , App.
11, Doc. 8.
100. 1st ind., Brereton to Paul, as in
n. 99; Brady interview; Elsmore state-
ment, as in n. 98; Fry statement, as in
n. 99; interview with Maj. E.H. Heald,
communications officer, V Air Force
Service Command, 1 5 May 1944, in His-
tory, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , App. 11,
Doc. 17.
101. Brady interview; A G 370.5 ( I *
15-41)
1941; A G 370.5
MC-C-M to C G AFCC, 2 2 Oct.
(10-27-41) MC-C-M to
C G AFCC, 30 Oct. 1941; Fourth Air
Force Historical Study IV-I, Vol. 11,
Docs. 42-66; Lt. Rob Roy Carruthers, in
435th [Bomb. Sq.1 Overseas, in History,
19th Bomb. Gp.; History of USAFIA,
in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , App.
11, Doc. 26; History, 7th Bomb. Gp.,
1942; AAFRH-11, pp. 34, 84-85; AAF
Historical Study No. 9, The AAF in
Australia to the Summer of 1942, pp.
1 0 2 . 1st ind., Brereton to Paul, as in
n. 99; Elsniore statement, as in n. 98;
History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , pp. 8 9 .
103. AAFRH-11, pp. 39-41; tel. con-
versations, 26, 27, 29 Nov. and 3, 4 Dec.
1941, in Fourth Air Force Historical
104. Statement of Sec. of War Stim-
son to Pearl Harbor lnvestigating Com-
mittee, N e w Y o r k Times, 2 2 Mar. 1946.
105. Report of the Joint Committee
on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor
Attack (79th Cong., zd sess.), Doc. 244,
p. 102.
106. Msg. #624, Marshall to CG
USAFFE, 27 NOV.1941.
107. Ltr., Hart to MacArthur, 2 3 Oct.
1941; ltr., MacArthur to Hart, 7 Nov.
194'.
11-12.
Study IV-I, Vol. 11, DOCS.42-46.
108. AAFRH-11, pp. 42-43; msg.
#1oo4, MacArthur to Marshall, 28 Nov.
1941; Adm. Thomas C. Hart, Narrative
of Events, Asiatic Fleet, Leading up to
War, and from 8 Dec. 1941 to 1 7 Feb.
1942; Col. W.P. Fisher, Report on Philip-
pine and Java Operations (n.d. but some-
time during spring of 1942) ; Brady inter-
view; History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I ,
App. 11, Doc. 82.
109. USSBS (Pacific) Interrogation
74, Capt. Chihaya Takahashi, 20 Oct.
'945.
1 1 0 . History, 24th Pursuit Gp.
I I I . Msg. # 1 1 0 5 , MacArthur to
1 1 2 . AAFRH-11, pp. 4p-50, 85.
1 1 3 . Ibid., p. 85; AAFH%, pp. 11-12.
114. Fourth Air Force Historical
1 1 5 . Ltr., Short to Arnold, 6 Dec.
116. Ibid., pp. 5 ~ 6 2 ,88 (n. 17).
117. Ltr., Arnold to Martin, I Dec.
118. Fourth Air Force Historical
119. AAF in the W a r against Japan,
AGWAR, 6 Dec. 1941.
Study, IV-I, Vol. I.
1941,cited in AAFHS-45, p. 62.
'94'.
Study IV-I, Vol. I.
I941-1942, p. 2 .
NOTES TO CHAPTER 6
I . Peace and W a r : US. Foreign
Policy, 1931-1941, pp. 136-48 and sup-
porting documents; Report of t h e Joint
Committee on the Investigation of t h e
Pearl Harbor Attack (79th Cong., zd
sess.), Doc. 244, pp. 1-49.
2 . R e p o r t . . . Pearl Harbor Attack,
pp. 53-57; USSBS Interrogation No.
65, Capt. Y. Watanabe, 1 5 Oct. 1945; No.
1 1 3 , Capt. M. Fuchido, 10 Oct. 1945; No.
479, Capt. &I. Genda, 28-29 Nov. 1945;
No. 603, Capt. M. Fuchido, 28 Nov. 1945.
3. Interrogations cited in n. 2 ; Hear-
ings before the Joint Committee on the
Investigation. of the Pearl Harbor Attack,
Pt. 13, Exh. 8-B, 420-22.
4. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p.
57, which apparently regards an earlier
reconnaissance flight as a separate wave,
685

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