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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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“The Invaders”15 pages

  • p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
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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