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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. 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 5 2 - 5 9
S/N, 14 Jan. 1942; memo to Rear Adm.
John S. McCain from Maj. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer, C/AS, 17 Feb. 1943;
History, FC Operations, p. 191. Three
Sikorsky S 4 4 Clippers were nearing
completion and were turned over to the
Navy in 1942. (See also Air Transporta-
tion, 11 [June 19431, 15.)
154. Memo for C/AC from Col. Olds,
4 Dec. 1941.
155. Minutes cited in n. 151; memo to
Rear Adm. McCain from C/AS, 17 Feb.
'943.
156. Contract DA W 535 ac-914, 13
Dec. 1941, and sup. contract # I thereto,
17 Dec. 1941.
157. History, FC Operations, pp. 9-10.
158. For a detailed account of these
early operations to and within the South-
west Pacific Area, see ibid., pp. 9-18.
159. Sup. agreements, 13 Dec. 1941,
to contracts DA W 535 ace415 and DA
W 535 ac-416.
160. Memo for Mr. Brownell from
Gen. Olds, 13 Feb. 1942; memo for Gen.
Arnold from Gen. George, 25 June 1942;
History, FC Operations, pp. 180-81, 197-
98.
161. AAF Historical Study No. 12,
The Tenth Air Force, 1942, pp. 33-34;
History, FC Operations, p. 198.
162. History, FC Operations, pp. 192-
93, 197-98, 218. T W A operated under
contract DA W 535 ac-1062, 24 Dec.
1941, and directive No. I thereto, 1 2 Jan.
1942. (See also T.W.A.'s Contribution to
the W a r and History of T W A Foreign
Contract Service, incl. to ltr., Otis F.
Bryan to Lt. Col. Rex W. Smith, Jr., 25
Feb. 1943.)
163. Memos to Col. Thomas L.
Mosley from J. V. Roscoe, PAA repre-
sentative, 1 1 June 1942; History, FC
Operations, pp. 19697.
164. Ltr., Col. C.R. Smith, C/S A T C
to L. Welch Pogue, 15 Aug. 1942; His-
tory, Caribbean Div., Pt. 2, pp. 144-47.
165. History, Caribbean Div., Pt. 2 ,
pp. '43-449 ' 5 5 .
166. Memo for Col. Mosley from J.V.
Roscoe, 1 1 June 1942; memo for C G
AAF from Col. L.P. Whitter and Capt.
7 0 6
Wm. M. Sheehan, 2 2 June 1942; memo
for Gen. Arnold from Gen. George, 2 5
June 1942; History, FC Operations, pp.
19697, 2 1 8 .
167. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 294-303, 318; contract DA W 535
ac-1476, 31 Jan. 1942; ltr., Lt. Col. Robert
M. Love to Northeast Airlines, 3 Feb.
1942; Chronology of Inaugural Routes
and Flights, North Atlantic Div., 1 5 Feb.
'945.
168. Contract DA W 535 ac-27361,
4 Apr. 1942; American Airlines Survey
Flight, as cited in n. 137.
169. 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. '942; 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.
170. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
171. Contract DA W 535 ac-1765, 20
Feb. 1942; ltr., Gen. Olds to Northwest
Airlines, Inc., 7 Mar. 1942.
172. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
1942-45, pp. 25-30; Summary of North-
ern Division operations with N W A
Equipment, 27 Feb.-zo Apr. 1942, in
A T C Hist. file.
173. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
1942-459 p. 34.
174. Ibid., pp. 35-36. Letters of intent
were issued to Western Airlines on 16
April and 27 April, but the contract, W
535 ac-28400, was not approved until 17
June 1942.
175. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
'942-457 p. 34.
176. Contract w 535 ac-29829, 25
June 1942.
177. Northwest Air Route to Alaska,
'941-459 pp. 37-39.
178. Ibid., pp. 39-40.
179. The Air Transport Command in
the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1
180. R&R, Gen. Arnold to Col.
181. The Air Transport Command in
1942-457 pp. 10-24.
Aug. 1944, pp. 1-13.
George, 29 Mar. 1942.
the Southwest Pacific, n. 15, p. 1 2 .

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