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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 0 4 - 1 6
and Relations with Alaska, 1942-45,
chap. i.
173. Ibid.
174. Minutes of the Joint Board, 26
175. History, Eleventh Air Force,
176. Ibid., pp. 90ff.
177. History, Fort Glenn Army Air
Base, Aug. 1941-July 1944, pp. 1-8.
178. History, Eleventh Air Force, pp.
91 ff.
179. Ibid., pp. 118, 128-29, 132, 134-
35, 141; AAFHs4, pp. 50-51.
180. Memo for Chief, Radar Div.
from Maj. E.J. Atkinson, 26 Aug. 1942.
181. Memo for Dir. of Mil. Require-
ments from Col. G.P. Saville, I Sept.
‘942.
182. Ltrs., Hq. WDC to CG Field
Forces, 2 7 and 28 Jan. 1942.
183. R&R, Col. G.P. Saville to
AWPD, 25 Feb. 1942; 2d ind. (basic un-
known), Hq. AAF to Chief of Engineers,
14 Apr. 1942, both in AAG 676-A,
Alaska.
184. Memo for CG AAF from Brig.
Gen. Wm. 0. Butler, CG Eleventh Air
Force, 16 June 1942.
185. History, Eleventh Air Force, p.
116.
NOV. 1941.
Aug. 1940-Sept. 1942, p. 89.
NOTES T O CHAPTER 9
I . Maj. Oliver LaFarge, “Strategic
Air Supply,” Air Transport, I1 (Sept.
1944), 2@25.
2 . J C C ~ I ,Annex I.
3 . See chapters on early operations
over the various routes in History,
Ferrying Command Operations, 7 Dec.
1941-30 June 1942.
4. Ministry of hformation, Atlantic
Bridge, T h e Official Account of R.A.F.
Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry
(London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of
Information covering the organization of
the Atlantic ferry bomber service by the
Canadian Pacific, 25 Mar. 1942, incl. with
ltr., C.H. Dickens, Canadian Pacific Air
Lines, Ltd., to Lt. Col. Fred C. Morgan,
700
2 1 Mar. 1944. The transoceanic ferrying
of aircraft for the Eritish was first under-
taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway’s
Air Services Department, under contract
with the British Ministry of Aircraft
Production. The first delivery by the
Air Services Department was completed
on 1 1 November 1940. In the spring of
1y41 it was determined to transfer direct
control of the operation to the Ministry
of Aircraft Production. ATFERO, the
agency of the ministry for this job, ac-
tudly assumed control as early as March
1y41, although the official notice to the
Canadian Pacific of the proposed can-
cellation of that organization’s contract
was not sent until 27 May 1941. The
formal transfer was made on 15 July. On
I August 1941the RAF Ferry Command,
organized in July, in turn took over the
operation from ATFERO.
5 . Memo for Gen. Arnold from Maj.
E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941;report of
conference in office of Mr. Lovett, 14
Apr. 1941,in AAG 353; memo for Gen.
Brett from H.T. Lewis and Q.W. Coyle,
I 5 Apr. 1941; History, Ferrying Command
Operations, 29 May-7 Dec. 1941, p. 17.
6 . CM-IN, London to T A G (Arnold
for Lovett), #1051, 2 1 Apr. 1941.
7. Ltr., Air Marshal H.C.T. Dowding
to AS/W Robert A. Lovett, 28 Apr.
1941; ltr., British Minister Sir Gerald
Campbell to Sec. of State, 8 May 1941;
memo for C/AC from US/W Robert
P. Patterson, 1 2 May 1941.
8. Memo for Gen. Spaatz from Gen.
Arnold, 26 May 1941; memo for Gen.
Arnold from Gen. Spaatz, 27 May 1941.
9. Ltr., President to S / W , 28 May
‘94’.
10. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, 29 May 1941-20 June 1942,
pp. 9-10.
1 1 . Ltr., T A G to C G s All Armies
et al., 5 June 1941.
12. When the Ferrying Command
was established the term “ferrying” was
used in a broad sense to include both
the flight delivery of aircraft and the
operation of a back-and-forth service for
the transportation of cargo and pas-
sengers. In time the term came to mean
only the former type of operation in

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