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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 6 0 - 7 0
182. Ibid., pp. 1 0 - 1 1 , 13-15, 56-57.
183. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, 29 May 1941-30 June 1942,
pp. ~ r o o ;Leonard Eiserer, “Army Air
Corps Outhauls all Domestic Carriers in
Volume,” American Aviation, I Aug.
1941, p. 6; excerpt from ltr., Robert E.
Hotz to C/S ASC, 14 Feb. 1942.
184. Ltr., T A G to CG AAF et ul., 3 0
Apr. 1942.
185. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, pp. 122-23.
186. Memo for Col. George from
Gen. Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942.
187. Ltr., Gen. Arnold to C/AS, 1 2
June 1942.
188. L.W. Pogue, Memorandum Con-
cerning W a r Aviation Transport Serv-
ices, 1 5 June 1942, in AAG 210.69H.
189. 1st ind. (ltr., Gen. Arnold to
C/AS, 1 2 June 1942), C/AS to AC/AS,
A-2, 16 June 1942; ltr., AAF to Brig.
Gen. Hume Peabody, 17 June 1942.
1 9 . AAF G O 8, 2 0 June 1942.
191. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, pp. 126-126a.
192. Zbid., pp. 126-28; W D Circular
211, Sec. 111, I July 1942.
193. AAF G O 8, 2 0 June 1942, di-
rected the establishment of those two
main divisions.
194. Ltr., T A G to C G AAFFC, 1 2
June 1942.
195. Ltr., T A G to CG ATC, 5 July
‘942.
196. A T C Statistical Control Div.,
Military Personnel, Air Transport Com-
mand, 1942-44, and Summary of Opera-
tions of the Air Transport Command,
‘9431 pp. 99 11.
197. Lt. Col. Oliver LaFarge, ATC
Transport Aircraft in World War IF: A
Study of Types, Performance, and Fleet
Augmentation, pp. 3-4, in ATC Hist.
file.
198. Memo for S / W from President
Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321.
199. On the subject of relations be-
tween the Ferrying Command or the Air
Transport Command and the theaters,
see the following: Lt. Col. Oliver La-
Farge, Control of Strategic Air Trans-
port, 2 0 Oct. 1945; Administrative His-
tory, Ferrying Command, 29 May 1941-
3 0 June 1942, pp. 11g-20; Administrative
History, Air Transport Command, June
19qz-Mar. 1943, pp. 136-42; Administra-
tive History, Air Transport Command,
Mar. 1943-July 1,944, pp. 176-93; His-
tory, FC Operations, 7 Dec. 1941-30
2 0 0 . History, FC Operations, pp. 87-
90.
2 0 1 . The Air Transport Command in
the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1
Aog. 1944, pp. 32-45; Northwest Air
Route to Alaska, 1942-45, pp. 3g-40; La-
Farge, Control of Strategic Air Trans-
port, 20 Oct. 1945.
202. Ltr., T A G to Commander in
Chief, Southwest Pacific Area et al., 6
June 1942.
203. Memo for Gen. Arnold from
Gen. George, 17 Aug. 1942.
June 1942, pp. 87-90.
NOTES T O CHAPTER 10
I . Ltr., Marshall to C G USAFFE, 2 1
Nov. 1941; msg. #650, Adams to C G
2 . ABC-4, JCCSs-2, 2 5 Dec. 1941,and
JCCSs-4, 27 Dec. 1941, US.-British Staff
Conferences, in AFSHO files.
3. ABC-4/MsI JPC, Minutes, 5th
Mtg., 29 Dec. 1941; ABC-4/5; Gen. Sir
Archibald Wavell, Despatch on Opera-
tions in South-West Pacific, 15 Jan-25
Feb. IOAZ.
USAFFE, 29 NOV.1941.
I .
4. Despatch on Operations in South-
West Pacific.
5. Msg. # I , sans origine to TAG, 6
Jan. 1942; msg., Barnes to MacArthur,
9 Jan. 1942; msg. #1/92, Arnold to Brett,
10 Jan. 1942; memo for T A G from Brig.
Gen. L.T. Gerow, 1 2 Jan. 1942; rnsg.,
Brett to Marshall, #ABDA 7, 17 Jan.
1942; msg. #AF 1/209, Marshall to CG
USAFIA, 1 3 Jan. 1942. The daily Sum-
mary of Activities, Headquarters, Far
East Air Force (described above, p. 206,
and hereinafter cited as Sum. of Activi-
ties) indicates that Generals Brett and
Brereton, together with Sir Charles Bur-
nett, Australian chief of air staff, flew
707

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