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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. 181 …plans, in conjunction with the commander concerned, for movement of air echelons of the several task…
  • p. 198 …Giles, an Air Corps officer who had been designated to head the Greenland Base Command." T…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 405 …But even during the winter, the Ferrying Command was able to operate a small- scale air…
  • p. 414 …Originally undertaken for the Air Service Command, the operation passed to the control of the Air…
  • p. 482 …Air Commands No. I and No. 2 , located respectively in the northwest and northeast defensive areas…
  • p. 539 …Task two, under command of General Mac- Arthur, would involve seizure of the upper Solomons and…
  • p. 603 …air reconnaissance and attack was the antisubmarine measure most feared by the U-boat command), the…
  • p. 646 …command over the Air Defense Command and what was to be- come the vital Northeast Air…
  • p. 771 …First Air Force, I, Organizational Development, Northeast Air District and First Air 30 June 19439 P…
  • p. 780 …Love to Northeast Air- lines, 3 Feb. 1942; Chronology of Inau- gural Routes and Flights, North…
  • p. 781 …The Air Transport Command in the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1 180. R&R, Gen…
  • p. 787 …S W P Command, 15 Feb. 1942; GO 20, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 20 June 1942…
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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