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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 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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