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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 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. 7 0 . lbid. 697
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