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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.

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  • p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
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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