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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. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
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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