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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 5 8 - 7 4
zation of Ground Combat Troops ( T h e
United States A r m y in World W a r 11:
T h e A r m y Ground Forces) (Washington,
1947), pp. 1-6. The author of the present
chapter has borrowed heavily from this
study of the War Department’s His-
torical Division, and would like to ex-
press here his gratitude to the chief of
that division for making available the
proofs while the book was in press.
85. Quoted in same work, p. 17.
86. Ibid., pp. 128-34.
87. Ibid., pp. 99, 100.
88. AR 95-5, 20 June 1941, Army Air
Forces, General Provisions, 3a, 4d, .Sg.
89. AAF Historical Study No. 10,
Organization of the Army Air Arm,
1935-439 pp. 19-21.
y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941.
9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a.
92. Ibid., 3b.
93. Ibid., 4a, 4b.
94. Organization of Ground Combat
Troops, p. 134.
95. Ibid., p. 135, quoting Arnold’s
memo of 18 Aug. 1941.
96. Ibid., p. 138.
97. Ibid., p. 139.
98. Ibid., p. 143.
99. Ibid., p. 14.
100. Ibid., p. 148.
101. R&R, AC/AS, A-I to C/AS, 10
OCt. 1941.
102. A A F H S I O , pp. 2-24.
103. Ibid., p. 2 1 .
104. Memo, C/AAF to C/S, 25 Nov.
‘94‘.
105. W P D 4614, memo, AC/S, WPD
to Sec. GS, 28 Nov. 1941.
106. AAFHS-10, pp. 23-26.
107. Ibid., pp. 26-27.
108. Organization of Ground Conzbat
109. AAFHS-10, pp. 27-28.
110. Time, 9 Mar. 1942, p. 43.
I I I . Report. . . Pearl Harbor Attack,
p. 43.
1 1 2 . Outline of Lecture to be Given
to W D G S Officers Training Group, n.d.
Troops, pp. 150-51.
1 1 3 . Promotions announced in N e w
York Times, 16 Dec. 1941 and 20 Mar.
‘943-
114. AAFHS-10, pp. 28-29.
1 1 5 . Memo, Lt. Col. K.N. Walker to
C/AS, 14 Oct. 1941, incl. draft proposal
to c/s.
116. R&R, Authority for Air Staff to
Confer with British Air Staff, 16 Dec.
‘94’.
I 17. Interview with Air Commodore
Warburton by Dr. Bruce Hopper, Lon-
don, 4 July 1944.
118. Memo from Maj. Gen. M.F.
Harmon, C/AS, 10 June 1942.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 8
I . Fourth Air Force Historical Study
1-1, Organization and Functions of the
Fourth Air Force through the Year 1941,
p. 242.
2. Richard L. Neuberger, “Reveille in
the Northwest,” Nation, 20 Dec. 1941,
3 . Radio address by President Roose-
velt, 9 Dec. 1941, reproduced in Peace
and War: U S . Foreign Policy, 1931-
‘941.
4. Minutes of the Joint Board, 8 Dec.
‘94’.
5. Memo for C/S from S / W Henry
L. Stimson, 9 Dec. 1941.
6. Minutes of the Joint Board, 8 Dec.
1941.
7, Ibid.
8. Memo for C/S, Air Estimate of the
Situation, 6:30 am., 8 Dec. 1941, in
AFSHO files.
9. Lt. Col. O.A. Anderson, AWPD,
Air Forces Estimate of the Situation, 1 2
Dec. 1941.
10. For a typical example of pressure
brought on the War Department for
stronger defense forces, attention is di-
rected to the voluminous correspondence
in AAG files 321.9 and 381 on the Sault
Ste Marie canal. (See ltr., Central De-
fense Command to C/S, 29 Mar. 1942,
which called the canal “the most valu-
able parcel of real estate in the world.”)
pp. 637-39.
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