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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.

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  • p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 2 4 - 3 2
Hq. Fifth Air Force, z Dec. 1942; 19th
Gp. Operations Record.
87. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; His-
tory, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , pp. 2627;
G O 25, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 4 July
1942; Robb statement; Sheppard and Gil-
more statement; Ind, Batman, pp. 154-55.
88. History, 27th Bomb. Gp.; Diary
of Lt. Col. James B. McAfee, I Nov.
89. Msg., Ft. Mills to AGO, 28 Dec.
1941; T h e Brereton Diaries, .pp. 63-64;
FEAF Hq. Diary, Doc. 28, in History,
Fifth Air Force, Pt. I, App. 11; Elsmore
statement.
1941-5 OCt. 1942.
p Fisher report.
91. Histories, 24th Pursuit Gp., Fifth
Air Force, Pt. I, pp. 27-29, and 27th
Bomb. Gp.; Robb and Obert statements;
Ind, Batman, pp. 167ff.
92. History of USAFIA, Doc. 26, in
History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I, App. H;
memo for CNO by Gerow, 1 2 Dec. 1941;
msg., MacArthur to WD, 18 Dec. 1941;
msg. #40, Melbourne to WD, 18 Dec.
1941; G O 4, Task Force, South Pacific,
19 Dec. 1941.
93. History of USAFIA, as in n. 92;
msg. #71, AG to Brig. Gen. John Magru-
der, 15 Dec. 1941; memo for T A G by
Acting AC/S Gerow, 17 Dec. 1942; msg.
#1015, Brett to T A G from Chungking,
2 3 Dec. 1941; msg. #130, Chungking to
TAG, 27 Dec. 1941; History, Fifth Air
Force, Pt. 2 , I Jan.-6 Mar. 1942, p. I .
94. History of G-4, USAFIA, Doc.
81, in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I,
App. 11; History of USAFIA.
95. History of G-4, USAFIA, as in
n. 94; History of USAFIA; memo for
Somervell by Eisenhower, recd. 17 Dec.
1941; msg., MacArthur to AGO, 18
Dec. 1941;History, 27th Gp.; T h e Brere-
ton Diaries, pp. 74-75.
96. History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. 2 ,
I J a n 4 Mar. 1942. See also below,
chap. 1 1 .
97. AAF Historical Study No. 45,
Development of the South Pacific Air
Route.
98. Msg., Marshall to CG USAFIA,
n.d., Doc. 48, in History, Fifth Air Force,
Pt. I, App. 11; interview with Maj. John
692
T. Trotter by author, 18 Oct. 1944; Gen.
Barnes’ Description of Australia, Doc.
5 1 a, in History, Fifth Air Force. Pt. I ,
App. 11.
99. Barnes’ Description of Australia;
msg. 81371, London (Royce) to WD,
16 Dec. 1941.
100. Notes on Conferences Held at
Amberley, 28 and 29 Dec. 1941, Doc. 64,
in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , App.
11; msg. #612, Adams to CG USAFFE,
27 Dec. 1941; msg. 8865, Adams to CG
USAFFE, 3 0 Dec. 1941; History, 7th
Bomb. Gp.; ltr., Clagett to C/AS, 24
Dec. 1941, Doc. 12, in History, Fifth
Air Force, Pt. I, App. IF.
1 0 1 . Notes on Conferences Held at
Amberley; msg., MacArthur to TAG,
15 Dec. 1941.
102. Msg., Marshall to [USAFIA, 2 5
Dec. 19411, Doc. 47, in History, Fifth
Air Force, Pt. I , App. 11; msg., Mac-
Arthur to AGWAR, 2 s Dec. 1941;msg.,
Brereton to TAG, OPNAV 251501
CROSS, 26 Dec. 1941;msg., Brereton to
T A G (cable from Navy, #CR0369, 26
Dec. 1941); msg., Clagett to Brereton,
n.d., Doc. 76, in History, Fifth Air Force,
Pt. I , App. 11; Brereton to TAG, f300630,
cR0828, 3 1 Dec. 1941; The Brereton
Diaries, pp. 6 2 ff.
103. Msg., Clagett to CJS, 3 1 Dec.
1941, Doc. 77, in History, Fifth Air
Force, Pt. I, App. 11; msg. #54, Clagett
to C/S, 29 Dec. 1941; Arnold to Brett,
25 Dec. 1941.The original route planned
for planes with a range of approximately
500 miles: Brisbane or Townsville, Clon-
curry, [ Charleville], Daly Waters, Dar-
win, Koepang in Timor, Makassar in
Celebes, Balikpapan (or Samarinda 11)
and Tarakan in Borneo, Del Monte (or
Malabang, Zamboanga, Iwahig) . (Msg.,
MacArthur to AGWAR, 2 Dec. 1942,
in AAG 452.1, Phil.) General Brereton
indicates in his Diaries, however, that
both he and Brett attempted to carry
out their mission of supporting the de-
fense of the Philippines. ( T h e Brereton
Diaries, p. 75.)
104. Msg. #36, Brett to C/S, z Jan.
1942; Notes on Conference Held on 3
Jan. 1942, Doc. 33, in History, Fifth Air
Force, Pt. I , App. 11; msg., Brett to Adm.

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