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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 3 3 - 4 5
Glassford, n.d., Doc. 66, in History, Fifth
Air Force, Pt. I , App. 11.
105. Memo for T A G by Gerow, 2 5
Dec. 1941; memo for T A G by Gerow,
z Jan. 1942; memo for C/S by Gerow,
3 Jan. 1942.
18. JCCSS-I. This was an earlier tar-
get date than had been set previously;
cf. P. IS8*
19. ABC-4/6; JCCSs-9.
20. N e w York Times, 2 7 Jan. 1942.
2 1 . JCCSS-I; JCCSs-I I .
2 2 . R&R, Arnold to Spaatz, Conversa-
tion with Portal, I Jan. 1942; ltr., Arnold
to Portal, 2 Jan. 1942.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 7
I . Cong. Rec., Vol. 87, Pt. 9, 9652.
2 . Radio address, in Peace and War:
US.Foreign Policy, 1931-1941,pp. 662-
7 2 .
3. For a summary of diplomatic nego-
tiations and action taken, see pp. 118-47
and supporting documents in the same
work. Also, Report of the Joint Commit-
tee on the Investigation of the Pearl planning.
Harbor Attack (79th Cong., zd sess.),
2 3 . ABC-4/6; JCCSS-I I .
24. JCCSs-11.
25. ABC-~/I, 2 7 Dec. 1941; ABC-4/2,
28 Dec.; AAF Reference History No. 2 ,
Origins of the Eighth Air Force: Plans,
Organization, Doctrine, chap. i.
26. ABC+/za of 13 January was ac-
cepted on the 14th as a basis for further
27. AAFRH-~, chap. i.
28. CCS 5/2, 3 Mar. 1942.
30. The British submitted an apprecia-
tion to this effect which was concurred
in by the U.S. JCS. Ibid.
3 ” JccSs-I1 Annex I’
34. AAF Reference History No. I I ,
A m y Air Action in the Philippines and
Netherlands East Indies, 1941-4z, pp.
35. ABC-4/8, 10 Jan. 1942; JCCSs-10.
36. JCCSS-10.
37. ‘bid*
38. JCCSS-12, 14 Jan. 1942.
39. JCCS~-~,z 5 D ~ ~ .1941.
4” Jccss-F7 ’9 Dee* ‘94’.
41. N e w York Times, 4 Jan. 1942.
42. This was contained in ABG4/5,
first draft of which was dated 29 De-
Duke of York, 18 Dec. 1941. 43. E.R. Stettinius, Jr., Lend-Lease,
3 1 Dec. 1941. 44. ABC-4/9, 10 Jan. 1942; JCCSs-8,
Jan. ‘94’.
I Z Jan. 1942. 45. Same sources.
13 Jan. 1942.
DOC. 244, pp. 1-47.
PP. 300-5.
4. Report.. . Pearl Harbor Attack, 29. Jccss-I.
5 . Zbid., pp. 38-42.
6. Letter of Instruction N O . I , 7 Dec.
1941; No. 2 , 11 Dec. 1941.
7. Memo for C/S, Air Estimate of the
Situation, 6:30 a.m., 8 Dec. 1941, in
AFSHO files. 33. ABC4/3, 29 Dec. 1941.
8. AWPD/4, Sec. V, I D. For break-
down of forces by theaters, see Tab c.
9. Peace and War, p. 849.
10. Text in Peace and War, pp. 850-
1 1 . N e w York Times, 2 2 Dec. 1941.
1 2 . JCCSs-I, 24 Dec. 1941. At ARCA-
DIA, the planning papers were desig-
nated “ABG4,” with appropriate sub-
numbers; the minutes of the meetings,
“JCCSs” and appropriate numbers. Most
of them can be found in the ARCADIA
Book in AFSHO files.
13. Cong. Rec., Vol. 87, Pt. 9, 10117.
14. Unnumbered CM from HMS cember*
15. JCCSS-I, Annex No. I ; JCCSs-7,
16. JCCSs-9, I I Jan. 1942; JCCSS-10,
17. ABG4/6, 10 Jan. 1942; JCCSS-11, 46. The difficulties inherent in the
situation are shown in AAF Historical
3 I . JCCSS-7.
95-98.
53.
Weapo7z f o r Victory, P* ’‘9.
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