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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. 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 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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