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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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