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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. 537 …of Air Staff, Plans, Col. Orvil A. Anderson, had in preparation a study of the possibility…
  • p. 757 …Cole O d l e Anderson, CaPt. Ball, Capt. Moss, and himself. The im- portance of…
  • p. 770 …AFSHO files. 9. Lt. Col. O.A. Anderson, AWPD, Air Forces Estimate of the Situation, 1…
  • p. 797 …for C/AS from Col. O.A. Anderson, AC/AS, Plans, 25 June 1942. General Marshall…
  • p. 812 …for Col. George from Maj. S.E. Anderson, Research Regarding Bomber-Fighter Combats in Europe, 1…
  • p. 818 …AC/S, OPD from Col. O.A. Anderson, 10 July 1942. 197. Key Plan for the…
  • p. 840 …5 1 2 Andaman Is., 500, 503 Anderson, Col. 0. A., 472 Andes, 639 Andres, Pvt…
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90. Editorial, N e w York Times, 28
Feb. 1942.
91. Los Angeles Times, I Nov. 1945;
Oakland Tribune, 2 Nov. 1945, quoted in
Fourth Air Force Historical Study 111-2,
p. 3 2 . It should be noted, however, that
the 1-17 which shelled oil installations
near Santa Barbara on the night of 23
February normally carried a plane. (See
USAFISPA G-2 Periodic Report No. 39
92. USSBS (Pacific), Interrogation 97,
Comdr. Masatake Okumiya, at Tokyo,
93. History, 4th AA Command, p.
94. Ibid., p. 121.
95. Ibid., p. 119.
96. Los Angeles Times: Bill Henry
on 26 Feb. 1942; Ernie Pyle on 5 Mar.
‘942.
97. Richard L. Neuberger, “Reveille
in the Northwest,” Nation, 2 0 Dec. 1941.
98. Notes on Orientation Concerning
Controlled Interception, in docs. for His-
tory, Fighter Command School, Mar.-
l2-9 Oct. 19431.)
I 0 OCt. 1945.
I 19.
NOV.1942.
99. lbid.
100. History, AAF Proving Ground
Command, Pt. 16, Radar, chap. i.
101. AAF Historical Study No. 58,
The Use of Radio and Radar Equipment
by the AAF, 1939-45, chap. ii, quoting
Radar, A Report on Science at War, a
press release by the Joint Board on Scien-
tific Information Policy, 14 Aug. 1945.
102. Notes on Interception, as cited
in n. 98.
103. Edgar McInnis, T h e War: Sec-
ond Year, pp. 6ff.
104. Ibid., pp. 218ff.
105. Characteristics of British Radar
Equipment, in docs. for History, Fighter
Command School, Mar.-Nov. 1942.
106. Ibid.
107. See p. 6 of Notes on Intercep-
tion, as cited in n. 98; cf. AAFHS-58,
chap. iii.
108. Maj. Gordon P. Saville, Air De-
fense Doctrine, 27 Oct. 1941. See n. 118,
this chapter.
698
109. AAF Historical Study No. 66,
Development of Radio and Radar Equip-
ment for Air Operations, 1 9 3 ~ 4 4 .
1 1 0 . See “Radar-A Most Decisive
Instrument,” US. Air Services, Mar.
1946, p. 2 1 .
I I I . Brig. Gen. H.H. McClelland
said: “We simply did not have the funds
or manpower in our military commu-
nications set-up to fool” with radar.
(AAFHS-66.)
1 1 2 . Ibid.
1 1 3 . Memo for C/S from Arnold, 24
I 14. History, Air Defense Command,
115. AAFHS-66.
116. Ibid.
117. A G 320.2 (2-16-41) M-C-M, Air
Defense, 7 Mar. 1941, Doc. I , in Fourth
Air Force Historical Study 111-1.
118. The plan of air defense was
officially summarized in the manual Air
Defense Doctrine, as cited in n. 108.
119. For limitations of radar, see p.
2 3 , Report by R. A. Watson-Watt on
the Air Defense System of the Pacific
Coast of the US., Jan. 1942, Doc. 40, in
Fourth Air Force Historical Study HI-I.
1 2 0 . Ibid., p. 21.
121. History, I Fighter Command,
1941-44, 1, 104ff.
1 2 2 . Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 111-2, pp. 146 ff.
123. History, I Fighter Command,
1941-44, I, 67; Fourth Air Force His-
torical Study 111-2, p. 74.
NOV.1939.
P. 7-
124. Air Defense Doctrine.
125. Ibid.
126. See p. 3 of Watson-Watt report,
as cited in n. 119.
127. Ltr., Air Marshal A.T. Harris,
RAF Delegation, Washington, D.C. to
Hon. R.A. Lovett, AS/W for Air, 12
Dec. 1941.
128. Ibid.
129. All quotes are from Watson-
Watt report.
130. Memo for Arnold from Saville,
3 0 Jan. 1942; ltr., C/AAF to CSigO, 8
Feb. 1942.

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