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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 2 4 6 - 5 8 Study No. 12, T h e Tenth Air Force, 1942. 47. Memo for C/AS, Notes on Prep- aration of AWPD/I, 18 Nov. 1941. 48. Quoted in draft AAF Historical Study, Logistical Plans and Problems, 1941-43, with Special Reference to Build- up of the Eighth Air Force. 49. Victory Requirements, a draft paper dated 5 Jan. 1942, in Col. H.L. George's notes on ARCADIA, in AFSHO files. 50. See n. 48. 5 1 . Cong. Rec., Vol. 88, Pt. I, 34. 52. Memo for US/W from R.A. Lovett, AS/W for Air, 1 2 Jan. 1942. The schedule was approved in letter, FDR to Undersecretary Patterson, 14 January. 53. JCCSS-I. 54. Allocation of Airplanes-1942, signed by Arnold and Portal on 13 Jan. '942. 55. For objections by Harry Hopkins, see AAF Reference History No. 6, Dis- tribution of Air Materiel to the Allies, 1939-44. 56. Ibid. 57. Stettinius, o p . cit., p. 217. 58. Memo for C/S from C/AS, Per- sonnel for Completion of Army's Second Aviation Objective, 15 Dec. 1941. In addition to this authorized stiength for the Air Corps, services with the Air Corps were listed at the following au- thorized strengths: Aircraft Warning Service, 21,850; Arms and Services, 120,232; National Guard, 6,119; for an over-all total of 496,736. Cf. Strength Report as of 31 Dec. 1941 by Enlisted Sec., Military Personnel Div., which gives a figure for enlisted men of 243,542, including 4,495 National Guard and 15,000 aviation cadets. 59. AAF Directory of Groups, 6 July '942. 60. Unsigned note on OCAC staff conference in Col. H.L. George's ARCA- DIA file. 61. Memo for C/S from Arnold, 7 Jan. 1942. 62. Ibid. 694 63. Cited in Logistical Plans and Prob- 64. T h e Official Guide of the Army 65. Logistical Plans and Problems, 66. Ibid. 67. Data for this chart taken from: AAF Directory of Groups, 6 July 1942; memo for C/AAF from S/W, Expansion of the AAF during Calendar Year 1942, 19 Jan. 1942; memo for C/AAF from C/AS, AAF Expansion for 1943, 19 Jan. 1942. lems, 1941-43. Air Forces (New York, 1944), p. 329. '941-43- 68. Peace and Waf, pp. 85-53. 69. Cong. Rec., Vol. 88, Pt. I , 33. 70. SPOBS was set up 19 May 1941, the British Joint Staff Mission a little later. 71. JCCSs-8. 72. JCCSS-12. T h e paper as revised was ABG4/CS4. 73. CCS 9, 24 Jan., and CCS 9/1, 10 Feb. 1942; JCS Memo for Information 74. T h e first meeting of the JCS which he attended was 28 July 1942. Admiral Stark had meanwhile been re- lieved. 75. JCS 2o2,8 Jan. 1943; Comments on JCS 202, 3 Apr. 1943. These deal with a suggestion, which was declined, to pro- vide charters for the JCS and subsidiary agencies. 8'75. 76. CCS 9/1, par. 3. 77. Ibid., par. 4. 78. See CCS 9/1, 10 Feb. 1942. 79. CCS 23/1, 11 Feb. 1942. 80. CCS 24/1, 10 Feb. 1942. 81. CCS 19/1, 4 Feb. 1942. See also 82. AAFRH-6. 83. The British had made the original suggestion for the Secretariat in JCCSs-8. For a British criticism of American meth- ods of keeping staff records, see an interview with Air Commodore A.C.H. Sharp by Dr. Bruce Hopper, London, 84. Kent R. Greenfield, Robert R. Palmer, and Bell I. Wiley, The Organi- Stettinius, op. cit., pp. 160-61. I 2 OCt. 1943.
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