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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.

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“Roosevelt”53 pages

  • p. 5 …Imprint N March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the Director of the Bureau of…
  • p. 138 …1939-4I N 28 January 1938 President Roosevelt declared our national defenses inadequate in the face…
  • p. 141 …changed our requirements for defensive aviation,” President Roosevelt strongly urged that $300,- ooo,ooo be appropriated…
  • p. 153 …When President Roosevelt initiated the move toward re- I 16
  • p. 160 …T h e first step was made public on 3 September 1940 when President Roosevelt revealed…
  • p. 165 …These sentiments were expressed by President Roosevelt in a radio address on 3 September: “This Nation…
  • p. 169 …In an address to Congress on 6 January 1941, President Roosevelt suggested the means; 9 5…
  • p. 170 …O n 9 July 1941, President Roosevelt requested the secretaries of W a r and the…
  • p. 171 …The British had prepared, a t the instigation of President Roosevelt, an estimate of munitions requirements…
  • p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 174 …cent; other nations, 10 per cent.'" President Roosevelt, anxious that as many planes as possible be…
  • p. 185 …President Roosevelt’s request for the report had been motivated wholly by considerations of logistics. But…
  • p. 199 …On 5 July 1941 President Roosevelt, in oral orders to the Army Chief of Staff and…
  • p. 220 …and it carried a threat which President Roosevelt described in terms of the greatest danger faced…
  • p. 258 …conflict between Japan and the U.S. Roosevelt attempt curve our independence stop we all know…
  • p. 273 …President Roosevelt specifically directed that reinforcements should be sent there with all speed, and MacArthur was…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …evening, the British party met with President Roosevelt and his military and civilian advisers a t…
  • p. 297 …O n 3 January President Roosevelt sent Mr. Stimson a list of muni- tions, with a…
  • p. 301 …In his address to the Congress on 6 January, President Roosevelt promised that “we shall not…
  • p. 302 …Ultimate decisions on major military policies were taken by President Roosevelt, as Commander in Chief of…
  • p. 304 …Leahy as personal chief of staff to President Roosevelt in place of Admiral Stark.'* It was…
  • p. 322 …given to the nation by Presi- dent Roosevelt in a radio address on 9 D e…
  • p. 331 …At the end of January, President Roosevelt advised the President of Venezuela that, in deference to…
  • p. 332 …During the course of a fireside report to the nation delivered by President Roosevelt on 2…
  • p. 352 …Secretary Stimson reported to President Roosevelt his conviction that the planes from even one carrier could…
  • p. 366 …raised objections which seemed convincing.8 President Roosevelt decided to adopt the more modest proposal of…
  • p. 370 …Elliott Roosevelt during the summer on an aerial survey of the east coast of Greenland in…
  • p. 400 …Elliott Roosevelt and others failed to locate a suitable site for an airdrome.120A satisfactory site…
  • p. 409 …mobilizing the resources of the airlines, President Roosevelt had signed an executive order on 13 December…
  • p. 465 …for effective resistance in the Philippines, President Roosevelt had decided early in February that the general…
  • p. 480 …the basis of a proposal by President Roosevelt: there would be a separate Southwest Pacific Area…
  • p. 499 …Apparently President Roosevelt himself played a role in initiating the expedition, although it is not possible…
  • p. 553 …Lauchlin Currie had gone to China as economic adviser to President Roosevelt for study of her…
  • p. 630 …in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which the Prime…
  • p. 632 …plan was approved in principle by President Roosevelt, and on 8 April General Marshall and Harry…
  • p. 633 …message of 1 7 April, in- formed Roosevelt of his approval of the design; his sole…
  • p. 635 …A fortnight later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were alarmed by a query from Roosevelt as…
  • p. 640 …in Norway-and they understood that President Roosevelt’s anxiety to get U.S. troops into…
  • p. 641 …On 8 July the Prime Minister informed Roosevelt that conditions favorable to SLEDGE- HAMMER would probably…
  • p. 642 …on the ~ 4 t h . ~ ‘Ap- parently Roosevelt gave his tentative approval in a telephone conver…
  • p. 753 …This book shows the close relations between Roosevelt and the Committee T o Defend America by…
  • p. 755 …Address by President Roosevelt at Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and War, pp. 767-72…
  • p. 756 …Ltr., Roosevelt to Stimson, 18 Sept. 1941,in WP I-General. I I I . Release of…
  • p. 774 …Memo for Roosevelt from Stim- son, 14 Mar. 1942. 163. lbid. 164. History, Sixth Air Force…
  • p. 776 …Elliott Roosevelt, zIst Recon. Sq. to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941; memo for Col. Olds from Capt…
  • p. 779 …Elliott Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic Bridge, pp. 27-29. 117. Ltr., Sec. of…
  • p. 780 …Elliott Roosevelt to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941 (Report # 3 ) ; ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt to…
  • p. 782 …Memo for S / W from President Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321. 199. On the…
  • p. 790 …Mills to TAG, Mac- Arthur for Roosevelt, 11 Feb. 1942; msg. #5, Australia to Marshall, 2…
  • p. 802 …President Roosevelt had approved the induction as early as 18 December 1941, contingent upon approval of…
  • p. 857 …See also Coolidge; Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson. Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment…
  • p. 858 …Erwin, 330, 339-41, 512 Roosevelt, Capt. Elliott, 3 18, 344 Roosevelt, Pres. F.D., 101…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 8 0 - 8 5
7 1 . Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 1942.
The submarine was the 1-17, which was
sunk south of New Caledonia on 19 Au-
gust 1943. Interrogation of surviving
crewmen at that time placed the sub-
marine off San Diego on 10 February
1942 and indicated that it fired twenty-
four or twenty-five shells onto the coast
near Santa Barbara on 2 3 February. After
further operations off the California
coast, it returned to Japan in March.
(USAFISPA G-2 Periodic Report No. 39
[Z-9 OCt. 19431.)
7 2 . For details see A-2 Daily Sum.,
2 3 and 24 Feb. 1942; and History, 4th
A h Command, Jan. 19qz-July 1945, pp.
I 13-14.
73. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, Defense Plans and Operations
74. A-2 Daily Sum., 24 Feb. 1942.
75. Los Angeles Times, z j Feb. 1942.
76. History, 4th AA Command, Jan.
194t-July 1945, p. 116.
77. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, p. 31.
78. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
116-18; A-2 Daily Sum., 24 and 2 5 Feb.
1942. See also Los Angeles Times, 2 5
Feb. 1942.
79. Contemporary observations are
summarized in History, 4th A h Com-
mand, pp. I I ~ - 2 0 .
80. Report from WDC, 2 5 Feb. 1942,
in A-2 Daily Sum.
81. Los Angeles Times, 2 5 and 26
Feb. 1942.
8 2 . New York Times, 26 Feb. 1942,
reporting conference of previous day.
83. W D C report received in Wash-
ington at 1 3 1 5 hours, 2 5 Feb. 1942, quoted
in A-2 Daily Sum., 2 5 Feb. 1942.
84. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
119-20.
85. Report from WDC, 26 Feb. 1942,
quoted in A-2 Daily Sum.
86. Los Angeles Times, 2 7 Feb. 1942.
87. Ibid.
88. Ibid.
89. Quoted in Los Angeles Times, 28
(1942-45), p. 30.
Feb. 1942.
lar from Maj. Gen. J.E. Fickel, CG
Fourth Air Force), in Fourth Air Force
Historical Study 1-1, chap. ix; and Study
1-2 (1942-45), chap. ii.
54. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-1, chap. vii (especially pp. 2 3 2 ff.).
55. Ibid.
56. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
1-1, p. 270.
57, Along the West Coast in Feb-
ruary 1942 there was “little probability
that the air force units as now consti-
tuted could defend the vital targets
against a determined carrier based at-
tack.” (Memo for C/AAF from AWPD
[Col. George], 2 Feb. 1942.)
58. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
Notes on US-British Chiefs of Staff
Conference, 24 Dec. 1941, in AFSHO
files.
59. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
60. “The relief of Aruba and Curacao,
subject to Dutch concurrence, is to be
completed before the end of January.”
(BC-4/6.)
61. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
History, Caribbean Air Force, May 1941
-Mar. 1942, p. 512. The exact date of
the arrival of air units is not known, as
the latter source gives dates of 14 and 17
January (compare p. 5 7 2 with p. 5 1 2 , in
this regard).
62. A-2 Daily Sum., 3 1 Jan. 1942.
63. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
64. Ibid., 17 and 18 Feb. 1942; History,
Caribbean Air Force, Vol. TI1 (A-3 Pe-
riodic Report, 16-28 Feb. 1942). See also
History, Sixth Air Force, Mar. 1942-
May 1943, pp. 119--~2.
65. New York Times, 2 0 Feb. 1942.
There is a possibility that the damage to
shore installations on 19 February was
caused by star shells fired by the USS
Window. (See A-3 Periodic Report, as
cited in n. 64.)
66. A-2 Daily Sum., 2 Mar. 1942.
67. New York Times, 2 0 Apr. 1942.
68. Ibid., 18 Feb. 1942.
69. Ibid., 20 Feb. 1942.
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