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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 9 7 - 2 0 3 describes the attack as having been made in three waves rather than two. The operations order and interrogation of participating personnel indicate that the actual attack was launched in two waves. (See Hem-ngs . .. Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 13, Exh. 8-B, 420-22 and Exh. 8-C, 4 ~ 6 2 7 ; USSBS herrogations I 13 and 603.) The R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor At- tack, p. 58, gives a slightly different breakdown of the number of planes ern- ployed, with the following totals: 81 fighters, 135 dive bombers, 104 horizontal bombers, and 40 torpedo planes. 5 . R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, pp. 138-40; Walter Karig et al., Battle Report (New York, 1944)~I, 12-17; ltr., Brig. Gen. H.C. Davidson to CG Hawai- ian Air Force, 18 Dec. 1941, in History, VII Fighter Command; AAF Historical Study No. 41, Operational History of the Seventh Air Force, 7 Dec. 1941-6 Nov. 1943. 6. Battle Report, pp. 28-38; USSBS Intrs. 65, 113, and 479. 7. R e p o r t . ..Pearl Harbor Attack, pp. 64, 69. See also Battle Report, pp. 93- 96 and Plate XV. The additional loss of five incoming planes from the carrier Enterprise brought the total loss of naval aircraft to ninety-two, and to this figure were added at least thirty planes badly damaged. 8. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 62; AAFHS-41. 9. AAFHS-41. 10. Zbid.; ltr., Gen. Davidson to C G Hawaiian Air Force, 18 Dec. 1941. See also citations of the pilots mentioned. 1 1 . Records of tel. conversations in Fourth Air Force Historical Study IV-I, Processing and Ferrying Functions, 1941, Vol. 11, Docs. 42-66; Histories, 19th Bomb. Gp. and 435th Bomb. Sq.; 435th [Bomb. Sq.1 Overseas. 12. AAFHS-41, especially App. 3, W a r Diary kept by A-3, Hawaiian Air Force, 7-31 Dec. 1941. 13. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 141. 14. USSBS Intrs. 65, 113, and 479; Hearings.. .Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 13, Exh. 8 4 , 426-27. 686 15. Memo for Roberts Commission by Hq. Hawaiian Air Force, 26 Dec. 1941, in AAFHS-41, App. z. See also p. 6. R e p o r t . . .Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 65, states: “A total of 96 Army planes were lost as a result of enemy action, this fig- ure including aircraft destroyed in depots and those damaged planes which were subsequently stripped for parts.” 16. AAFHS-41, pp. 5-6; Hearings.. . Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 1 2 , 325, lists Army casualties as follows: killed in ac- tion 194, wounded in action 360, missing in action 2 2 , died nonbattle 2 , declared dead I, and died of wounds 2 1 , for a total of 600. 17. USSBS Intrs. 113 and 603; Report ...Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 64, suggests that the presence of US. Naval Task Force I Z south of Midway was probably the deciding factor. 18. USSBS Intrs. 503, Vice Adm. Shigeru Fukudome, 9 Dec. 1945; 424, Capt. Bunzo Shibata, 18 Nov. 1945; and 74, Capt. Chihaya Takahashi, 20 Oct. ‘945. 19. USSBS Intr. 74, Capt. Chihaya Takahashi, 20 Oct. 1945; USSBS, Sum- mary Report (Pacific W a r ) , I July 1946. 20. 1st ind. (ltr., Chief, AAF His- torical Office to C G Third Air Force, 30 Jan. 1946), Brereton to Paul; History, Fifth Air Force and Its Predecessors, Pt. I, Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, 8-9. 2 1 . History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, pp. 8-9; History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; Statement of Personal Experience, made by Maj. Stewart W. Robb at the request of historical per- sonnel, 30 Nov. 1944; statement by Maj. David L. Obert, 14 May 1945. 22. USSBS Intr. 601, 2 8 Nov. 1945, Comdr. Ryosuke Nomura, who during the invasion of the Celebes was air op- erations officer of the 23d Air Flotilla; Operations of the Japanese Navy in the Invasion of the Philippines, 15 May 1946, ATIS Doc. 1 9 6 9 2 . 23. History, 24th Pursuit Gp. 24. Histories, 27th Bomb. Gp. and 24th Pursuit Gp. 25. Interview with Col. Eugene Eu- bank, 2 July 1942; unrecorded interview
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