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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 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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