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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
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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