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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 2 1 - 2 6
Div., Pt. I , pp. 75-87; History, Caribbean
Div., Pt. I, pp. 7-11.
34. Draft of Agreement between
Atlantic Airways, Ltd., and British Govt.,
29 May 1941, incl. with memo for Gen.
Arnold from George H. Murphy, 29
May 1941.
35. R&R, Exec. OCAC to Col. Fer-
son, 25 May 1941; Pan American Air
Ferries, l’nc., 1941-42, in ATC Hist. file.
36. Pan American Air Ferries, Inc.,
1941-42; PAAF Operations Report, Sept.
1941-31 Oct. 1942. These and similar re-
ports prepared by Pan American Air
Ferries also cover the operations of At-
lantic Airways. (See also History, Carib-
bean Div., Pt. I , pp. 19-29; History, FC
Operations, 29 May-7 Dec. 1941, pp.
81-87.)
37. Memo for C/S from C/AS, 6
Aug. 1941.
38. Atlantic Airways, Ltd., Current
Consolidated Airplane Report.
39. Memo for Gen. Arnold from Lt.
Col. Clayton Bissell, 26 June 1941.
40. Ltr., Air Commodore E.B.C. Betts
to Gen. Spaatz, 16 Oct. 1941.
41. Memo for Gen. Arnold from Lt.
Col. Bissell, 26 June 1941.
42. Memo for US/W from AAF,
n.s., 17 July 1941; memo for the Presi-
dent from Acting S/W Robert P.
Patterson, 17 July 1941;memo to C/AAF
from S/W, 1 2 Aug. 1941; memo for
C/AAF from Maj. E.F. Gillespie, 20
Aug. 1941.
43. Memo for C/AAF from Maj.
Gillespie, 20 Aug. 1941; memo for Gen.
Brett from Maj. Gillespie, 2 2 Aug. 1941.
44. Contract W 535 ac-21207 USA
and PAA Co., Inc., 1 2 Aug. 1941; con-
tract DA W 535 ac-415, USA, PAA,
Inc., and PAA-Africa, Ltd., 12 Aug. 1941;
contract DA W 535 ac-416, USA, PAA,
Inc., PAAF, Inc., and PAA-Africa, Ltd.,
1 2 Aug. 1941.
45. Agreement between British Govt.
and PAA-Africa, Ltd., 1 2 Aug. 1941;
agreement between British Govt. and
PAAF, Inc., 12 Aug. 1941.
46. New York Times, 19 Aug. 1941,
P. 4.
702
47. Pan American Air Ferries reports
on operations, flight training, and me-
chanical training; History, Caribbean
Div., Pt. I, pp. 29-4t; History, FC Op-
erations, 29 May-7 Dec. 1941, pp. 92-94.
48. Pan American Air Ferries, Inc.,
Current Consolidated Airplane Reports.
49. Zbid.; Foreign Ferrying Deliveries,
Jan. through June 1942, and Foreign
Ferrying Deliveries, July through Dec.
1942, compiled by ATC Historical Br.
50. Contract W 535 ac-21207, 1 2 Aug.
1941; History, FC Operations, 29 May-
7 Dec. 1941, pp. 115-21.
51. Leonard Bridgman, comp. and ed.,
Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, 1942
(New York, 1943), pp. 150 e-151 c.
52. Operations, Pan American Air-
ways’ Proving Flight, New York-to-
Leopoldville, November 10th to 26th,
1941, in ATC 373.5.
53. History, FC Operations, 7 Dec.
1941-30 June 1942, pp. 188-92, 195-98.
54. Ibid.; contract DA W 535 ac-
415, 1 2 Aug. 1941.
55. Don Wharton, “Our New Life
Line to the East,” Saturday Evening Post,
I Aug. 1941, pp. 19, 65-66; Stettinius,
Lend-Lease, pp. 148-49; AAFRH-8, pp.
14-15; History, ATC in Central Africa
and the Middle East, Pt. I, pp. 38-39,
52-55; History, FC Operations, 29 May-
7 Dec. 1941, pp. 127-29.
56. AAFRH-8.
57. R&R, ACFC to C/AC, 2 2 July
1941; ACFC Daily Diary, 23 July 1941.
58. R&R, ACFC to C/AWPD, 2 1
Oct. 1941; Comment 3 (R&R, ACFC to
7 Nov. 1941, and Comment 5, OCAC
Intel. to C/AS, 18 Nov. 1941; R&R,
ACFC to Chief Intel. Div., 26 Nov. 1941;
memo, Col. Robert M. Love for CG
AAF, 16 Dec. 1943.
59. Pilot’s Report, South Atlantic
Trip # I ; ACFC Daily Diary, 30 Aug.-
60. Pilot’s Report, Trip #IS, Special
61. Memo for C/AC from Col. Ray
C/AC, 24 Oct. 1941), AWPD to C/AAF,
7 OCt. 1941.
Mission $2.
A. Dunn, 4 Nov. 1941.

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