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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 5 - 9 2 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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