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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 3 6 - 4 5
ACFC to Opns. Div., 3 Jan. 1942; CM-
IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for
Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb. 1942; His-
tory, FC Operations, pp. 99-100.
94. History, FC Operations, pp. IOO-
1 0 1 , and docs. cited in n. 9, p. 1 0 1 .
95. Memo for Gen. Harmon from
Col. George McCoy, Jr., 28 May 1942.
96. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June 1942 and July-Dec. 1942; History,
FC Operations, pp. 133-42.
97. History, FC Operations,. pp. 78-
79, 105-6; History, Caribbean DIV., Pt. 2 ,
98. Stettinius, Lend-Lease, pp. 154-56.
99. History, FC Operations, pp. 107-8.
100. R&R, Asst. for Opns. to ACFC,
1 2 Feb. 1942; ltr., Gen. Olds to Pan
American Airways, Inc., et al., 19 Feb.
‘942.
1 0 1 . History, FC Operations, p. 108.
102. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
cited in n. 96; PAAF Current Consoli-
dated Airplane Report.
pp* 1-36? 55-60.
103. AAFRH-8, p. 61.
104. Foreign F e r r y i n g Deliveries,
July-Dec. 1942; ltr., Col. C.R. Smith to
Exec. Munitions Assignments Board, I I
June 1 9 4 2 .
105. Ltrs., AAF to C/AC, 9 and 19
Jan. 1942; docs. cited in History, FC
Operations, n. I I , p. 113, and n. 2 2 , p. 122.
106. History, FC Operations, pp. I 12-
17; interview with Lt. Col. W.R. Stark
by Mrs. M.G. Radsch, 10 Apr. 1946.
107. History, FC Operations, pp. IZI-
2 2 ; Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June IWL.
108. History, FC Operations, pp. 122-
25; ltr., Lt. Col. John E. Barr to CG
Tenth Air Force, 19 June 1942; Foreign
Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-June 1942 and
July-Dec. 1942.
109. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
in n. 108.
I 10. History, FC Operations, pp. 109-
12; AAFRH-8, pp. 69-75, 85, 96-113.
I I I . Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I
Feb. 1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941;
memo for Gen. Arnold from H.T.
704
Lewis, O.W. Coyle, and Maj. E.H.
Alexander, 24 Mar. 1941; Atlantic Bridge,
pp. 26-27; History, North Atlantic Div.,
ATC, I, Pt. I , 68-71.
112. Memo for Gen. Spaatz from
Capt. T.N. Charles, 1 3 Mar. 1941;memo
for C/S from Gen. Brett, 1 2 Apr. 1941;
memo for C/S from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 3 June 1941; memo for C/AC
from Col. Robert Olds, 23 June 1941;
memo for T A G from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 10 July 1941; memo for AWPD
from Gen. Spaatz, 26 Aug. 1941; memo
for C/S from AAF, 23 Sept. 1941.
113. Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I Feb.
1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from Maj.
E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
114. Memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
1 1 5 . History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 85-86.
116. Zbid., 85-89; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic
Bridge, pp. 27-29.
117. Ltr., Sec. of State Cordell Hull
to Danish Minister Henrik de Kauffman,
7 Apr. 1941; ltr., Kauffman to Hull, 9
Apr. 1941;Peace and W a r : U S . Foreign
118. Memos for C/S from Acting
AC/S, WPD, 3 and 10 June 1941; ltr.,
T A G to C/S, 10 July 1941; History,
North Atlantic Div., I, Pt. I , 103.
119. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 104.
120. Ltr., AAF to Capt. Elliott Roose-
velt, 1 1 Aug. 1941; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941;memo
for Col. Olds from Capt. J.H. Rothrock,
6 Sept. 1941.
121. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 105-6.
122. Zbid., 100-101.
123. Ibid., 107-13; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941.
124. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 12-15, 78-83, 113-16.
125. Zbid., 397;-40X, 405-6; History,
8th Weather Sq. m Greenland, pp. 1-2;
memo for C/AC from Col. Robert Olds,
24 Nov. 1%’.
Polk’)’, 1931-1941, pp. 103-4.

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