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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 4 5 - 5 2
140. Ltr., Col. Milton W. Arnold to
141. Ibid.
142. Ltr., Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz to
CG VIII Fighter Command, 7 May 194:;
ltr., Col. Charles A. Hoek, Acting Dir.
of War Organization & Movement, to
CG Eighth Air Force et al., 17 May 1942.
143. Memo for C G AAF from Brig.
Gen. H.L. George, 3 June 1942.
144. R&R, Maj. Gen. H.L. George to
AFACT, 18 Sept. 1942; ltr., Col. Milton
W. Arnold to C G ATC, 6 Aug. 1943.
145. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I, 41-42, 44-41; ltr., Col. C.R. Smith
to C G 23d Ferrying Wing, 19 June 1942;
directive memo for C G A T C from Maj.
Gen. M.F. Harmon, C/AS, 22 June 1942.
146. Memo for C/AC from Col. Olds,
4 Dec. 1941;ACFC Daily Diary, 9, 10
Dec. 1941; minutes of meeting in Gen.
Arnold's office, 9 Dec. 1941, in A T C
337; History, FC Operations, pp. 3-5,
183-88.
147. For an excellent discussion of the
basic advantages of initially using the
airlines, see ltr., Gen. George to C G
AAF, 26 Apr. 1944. See also History, FC
Operations, pp. 8, 188-92; Reginald M.
Cleveland, Air Transport at W a r (New
York, 19461, pp. 42-56.
148. Cleveland, Air Transport at
W a r , pp. 14-20.
r49. History, FC Operations, pp.
2 22-23.
150. Executive Order f8974, 1 3 Dec.
194'.
1 5 1 . Minutes of meeting of Special
Aviation Committee, 14 Dec, 1941, in
ATC Hist. file.
1 5 2 . These figures were supplied by
the Civil Aeronautics Board, 20 Jan. 1947,
and include all aircraft except those of
Panagra, which operated over Latin-
American routes exclusively. A larger
number, 434, is given in Air Transporta-
tion, I1 (June 1943)~16, which number
is divided as follows: domestic, 358;
transoceanic, 10; to Latin America, 53;
Hawaii, 6; Alaska, 7.
153. Minutes cited in n. 1 5 1 ; ACFC
Daily Diary, 16 Dec. 1941;ltr., S/W to
C G ATC, 6 Aug. 1943.
705
126. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
127. History, 8th Weather Sq. in
128. Ibid., pp. 8, 10.
129. Ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt to
TAG, 15 July 1941;memo for C/S from
Gen. Amold, 28 July 1941; ltr., Capt.
Elliott Roosevelt to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941
(Report # 3 ) ; ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt
to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941 (Report #4).
130. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
1 3 1 . Ibid., 85-91; ltr., Lt. Col. J.K.
Gerhart, Inspecting Officer, to CG
Eighth Air Force, I June 1942, and 3d
ind., Lt. Col. Robert M. Love to Dir. of
Air Base Services, z July 1942; memo for
CG AAF from Brig. Gen. H.L. George,
3 June 1942.
132. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 103-16; Annex #4, Opns. Orders
$7-A, Hq. VIll Fighter Command, 18
June 1942.
133. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 486-591.
134. Ibid., 2 2 , 86-88, 290-94.
135. Ibid., 294-303, 318; contract DA
w 535 ac-1476, 3 1 Jan. 1942; ltr., Lt.
Col. Robert M. Love to Northeast Air-
lines, 3 Feb. 1942; Chronology of Inau-
gural Routes and Flights, North Atlantic
Div., 1 5 Feb. 194s.
136. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 311-15; contract DA W 535 ac-
1062, 24 Dec. 1941, and directive No. 9
thereto, 4 Apr. 1942; Pilot's Report,
T W A Survey Trip, 13-24 Apr. 1942;
memo to Col. Mosley from M/Sgt.
Joseph H. Walsh, 8 May 1942.
137. American Airlines Survey Flight,
North Atlantic Route, 24 A p r . 9 May
1942, incl. to ltr., Lt. Col. Robert J.
Smith to Capt. Crocker Snow, 3 June
1942.
138. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. 1, 323-24, 332-34.
139. lbid., 192-94, 196200;R&R, Gen.
Arnold to ACFC, 26 Mar. 1942;ltr,, Gen.
Arnold to Lt. Col. Milton W. Arnold,
9 May 1942; ltr., Col. Milton W. Arnold
to CG ATC, 6 Aug. 1943.
Pt. I , 93, 401-2.
Greenland, pp. 2-7.
Pt. I, 131-33, 410-12.

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