The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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from Darwin to Soerabaja on 9 Jan. 1942
and thence on the same day to Batavia,
where on the followinrr mornine thev files.
20 Jan. 1944; Report, Dutch Contribution
to the “War in the Air,” in AFSHO
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met Wavell.
6. Msg. #00071, ABDACOM to Brit.
Army Staff, Washington (Wavell to
Marshall), 16 Jan. 1942.
7. Zbid.; msg. #AF 1/209, Marshall to
C G USAFIA, 1 3 Jan. 1942.
8. Memo for T A G by Gen. Gerow,
AC/S, 2 7 Jan. 1942, draft msg., Marshall
to Brereton; History of USAFIA, 9 July
1943, Doc. 26, in History, Fifth Air
Force, Pt. I , Dec. 1941-Aug. 1942, App.
11. The FEAF Summary of Activities,
which in its January entries is valuable
chiefly as record of Brereton’s move-
ments, shows him to have been in con-
ference with Wavell and other key
ABDA and US. personnel in Java from
10 through 17 January. H e returned to
Darwin from Batavia on the 18th, went
to Townsville on the 19th, to Brisbane
on the zoth, and to Melbourne on the
zzd, from which place on 27 January
he flew again to Darwin. Having left
there on the following morning, he
reached Malang that afternoon, by way
of Soerabaja, for conferences with Col-
onel Eubank and staff. (See below, n. 27,
n. 41.)
9. Msg. #ABDA 7, Brett to Marshall,
17 Jan. 1942; msg. #0190545, CR 0899,
CIhTCAF (Brett) to AGWAR, 20 Jan.
1942.
10. Msg. to US. Embassy, London,
secret and personal for the “Former
Naval Person” from the President, 30
Jan. 1942; Adm. Thomas C. Hart, Nar-
rative of Events; msg. #8, Java to T A G
(Brett to Marshall), 3 Feb. 1942; memo
for T A G by Eisenhower, 10 Feb. 1942.
I I . Hart, Narrative of Events; memo
by Gen. Gerow, AC/S, 2 7 Jan. 1942;
msg. #ABDA 133, Bandoeng to AG, 31
Jan. 1942; Lewis H. Brereton, T h e
Brereton Diaries, 3 October 1941-8 May
12. Memo for T A G by Gen. Gerow,
AC/S, 27 Jan. 1942, draft msg., Marshall
to Brereton.
13. Interview with Mr. F.D. Van
Horn, representative of Standard Oil in
the East Indies from 1921 until late 1941,
‘945, pp. 78, 88-
708
14. Ltr., Maj. Gen. L. Van Oyen to
S/W Stinson, 15 Nov. 1942; msg. # I ,
MA, Bandoeng, 16 Jan. 1942.
IS. CCS 41, 16 Feb. 1942, lists the
strength of Allied forces present in the
area, en route to the area, and projected
for the future. This shows that British
forces were concentrated in Burma,
Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo. The Aus-
tralians had ground forces not only in
Malaya but also in some of the islands
in the southern East Indies. Timor and
Amboina, for example, each had an Aus-
tralian battalion. A part of the RAAF
aircraft strength was said to be “obsoles-
cent,’’ but it also included several
squadrons of Catalinas and Hudsons. A
considerable number of Hurricanes were
flown from Malaya to Sumatra upon the
fall of Singapore. Some of these later
reached Java.
16. ABC-4, JCCSs-2, 25 Dec. 1941,
Annex I , memo for the President.
17. Memo for Col. James G. Taylor,
AC Intel. Div. from Col. Earle L.
Naiden, AC/AS, A-3, 23 Dec. 1941.
18. JCCSs-2, Annex I .
19. T A G to US. MA, Melbourne
(sgd. Marshall), 8 Jan. 1942.
2 0 . ABC-4, JCCSs-9, 11 Jan. 1942;
JCCSS-10, 12 Jan. 1942; ABC-q/zA,
accepted and amended, JPC Report, I 3
Jan. 1942; JCCSs-7, Annex I , 31 Dec. 1941.
2 1 . Msg. #AF 1/90, to US. MA,
Melbourne, 6 Jan. 1942; History, Fifth
Air Force, Pt. I , pp. 34-35; T h e Brereton
Diaries,p. 84.
2 2 . The precise date of the arrival of
the B17’s in Australia is uncertain.
Colonel Hobson believes that it was 1 1
January, They arrived at Palmyra on 6
January and in Java on the 14th. (Msg.
#1562, Emmons to C/AAF, 6 Jan. 1942;
19th Gp. Operations Record; information
from Col. Kenneth B. Hobson, 25 June
23. Shipment of Aircraft from the
United States, Doc. 8283, in History,
Fifth Air Force, Pt. I.
‘947.)