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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. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
  • p. 242 …O R+ POI NT HAWAIIAN I SLA PACIFIC OCEAN 196 o w s U I DS
  • p. 322 …any one of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
  • p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s statement that “the broad oceans which have…
  • p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
  • p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance of…
  • p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
  • p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
  • p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
  • p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air strength for the Pacific, to…
  • p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry (London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of Information covering the organization…
  • p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
  • p. 797 …This action was to be co-ordinated with an operation in the South Pacific against Tulagi…
  • p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command, High Wycombe Prime Minister Pacific Ocean Area New Caledonia Task Force Plan…
  • p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India-China Ferry, organization, 508 Indian Ocean, 33…
  • p. 856 …I , 432, 477 Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236, 272-73 Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
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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