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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 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. 69s
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