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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. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
  • p. 242 …O R+ POI NT HAWAIIAN I SLA PACIFIC OCEAN 196 o w s U I DS
  • p. 322 …any one of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
  • p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s statement that “the broad oceans which have…
  • p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
  • p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance of…
  • p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
  • p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
  • p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
  • p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air strength for the Pacific, to…
  • p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry (London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of Information covering the organization…
  • p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
  • p. 797 …This action was to be co-ordinated with an operation in the South Pacific against Tulagi…
  • p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command, High Wycombe Prime Minister Pacific Ocean Area New Caledonia Task Force Plan…
  • p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India-China Ferry, organization, 508 Indian Ocean, 33…
  • p. 856 …I , 432, 477 Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236, 272-73 Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
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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