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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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N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 2 6 - 3 5 6 2 . Pilot's Report, South Atlantic 63. Pilots' Reports, South Atlantic 64. CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip # z . Trips B3-6. (Brett for Arnold), $105, 29 Sept. 1941. AGWAR, 8752, 17 Oct. 1941; CM-OUT, Arnold to Brett, 18 [ ? I Oct. 1941. 66. History, FC Operations, 29 May-7 Dec. 1941, pp. 95-105; The Sixteen Lib- erators, in ATC Hist. file. 67. The Sixteen Liberators. 68. Ltr., President to S/W, 3 Oct. 69. Ltr., President to S/W, 29 Oct. 70. Ltr., President to S/W, 24 Nov. 71. See sources in n. 66. 72. Pilots' Reports, South Atlantic 73. History, FC Operations, 7 Dec. 74. Ibid., pp. 79-81. 75. Ibid., p. 84. 76. ACFC Daily Diary, 3 0 Jan. 1942; memo for C/S from AAF, 3 Feb. 1942; ltr., Air Marshal D.C.S. Evill to Gen. Arnold, 5 Feb. 1942; ltr., AAF to C/AC, 1 3 Feb. 1942; ltr., Evill to Arnold, 16 Feb. 1942;ltr., AAF to C/Engrs. and CG ACFC, 20 Feb. 1942; History, FC Opera- tions, 7 Dec. 1941-30 June 1942, pp. 84-86. 77. Ltr., Lt. Col. Neil B. Harding et d., to CG ACFC, 14 Mar. 1942. 78. Report on Reconnaissance of Ad- ditional Air Routes to Australia, 10 Feb.- 3 Apr. 1942, in ATC A-t library. 79. History, FC Operations, 7 Dec. 1941-30 June 1942, pp. 85-86, and docs. cited in notes 19-20, p. 86. 80. The prewar movement of heavy bombers to the Philippines and the con- struction of the alternate Pacific route are described in the following studies: AAF Reference History No. 1 1 , Army Air Action in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, 1941-42, pp. IZ- 29; AAF Historical Study No. 45, De- '941. '94'. 194'. Trips #DA-2 to DA-5. 1941-30 June 1942, pp. 82-84. velopment of the South Pacific Air Route. 81. As early as 1939 plans had been developed for the use of the South Atlantic route in ferrying bombers to the Philippines. (Memo for C/AC from C/Plans Div., 2 3 Aug. 1939. See also memo for C/AAF from AWPD, 27 July 1941,and memo, AAF Intel. Div., 27 July 1941, both in AAG 452.1.) 82. For President's orders see ltr., C/AAF to CG AFCC, 1 3 Dec. 1941, incl. with R&R, OCAC, Opns. Div. to C/Mat. Div., 15 Dec. 1941. 83. Ltr., TAG to CG AFCC, 19 Dec. 1941;ltr., T A G to CG AFCC, 2 3 Dec. '94'. 84. History, FC Operations, pp. 102, 134; Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan. through June 1942, in ATC Hist. file. 85. Ltr., T A G to CG AFCC, 19 Dec. '94'. 86. Ltr., T A G to CG AFCC, 23 Dec. 194'. 87. Ltr., zd Lt. Leonard P. Cohen, Karachi to CO ACFC, 10 Jan. 1942. 88. Ltr., T A G to CG AFCC, 6 Jan. '942. 89. History, FC Operations, p. 80. 90. Interview with Lt. Col. Louis T. Reichers by Maj. Oliver LaFarge, 2 8 Mar. 1944; History, Caribbean Div., Pt. 1 9 pp. 7-73. 91. History, Caribbean Div., Pt. I , pp. 73-78; History, FC Operations, pp. 95-97. 92. Lt. Col. Karl Truesdell, Jr., Sum- mary of Remarks and Recommendations re Air Corps Combat Command Ferry Project to X, in ATC 373.5; unrecorded interview with Col. Horace M. Wade, DC/S, ATC by John D. Carter, 19 Sept. 1946. Col. Wade, then a first lieutenant, piloted one of the LB-30's of Project X to the Far East. The LB-30 crew mem- bers are listed in ltr., TAG to CG AFCC, 19 Dec. 1941. 93. Memo for W/C A.A. Adams from Col. Roben Olds, 2 2 Dec. 1941; CM-IN, Cairo (Fellers) to TAG, #448 Amseg, 29 Dec. 1941; R&R, ACFC to OCAC Mat. Div., 30 Dec. 1941; R&R, 703
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