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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.
“The Invaders”15 pages
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 1 4 - 2 0 Gps.; msg. #57, Ulio to C G USAFIA, 16 Mar. 1942; interview with Maj. John Davies, 9 Dec. 1942. 28. History, 38th Bomb. Gp.; msg., MacArthur to AGWAR, 24 Apr. 1942. 29. From the RAAF Intelligence Summaries, it would appear that almost all of these Catalinas and Hudsons which were not lost in combat were lost either in accidents or completely worn out from overwork. 30. RAAF Intel. Sums. 3 1 . History, V Fighter Command; George Henry Johnston, T h e Toughest Fighting in the World (New York, 1943). pp. 1 3 , 5 2 ; Osmar White, Green Amour (New York, 1945), pp. 56, 72, 76. 32. The two major bases for opera- tions against the Japanese in the North- eastern Area were Townsville and Port Moresby. At Townsville, there were at least four operational fields at this time: Garbutt, Anti1 Plains, Reid River, and Charters Towers. Others were to be con- structed up the Cape York Peninsula, the most important being Iron Range. At Port Moresby, there were three being used: Seven Mile, which was the major field; Three Mile and Ten Mile, both of which were little more than emer- gency fields. In wet weather, for ex- ample, pursuit operations had to be trans- ferred from Three Mile to Seven Mile. (Histories, 35th and 36th Sqs.) Plans were under way for the construction of four more fields near Port Moresby, and all would be operational by October. 3 3 . RAAF Intel. Sums.; 435th Over- seas; G O 18, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 6 June 1942. 34. ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel. Sums.; 435th Overseas; USSBS Memo fNav 1 1 , 16 Oct. 1945. T h e Joint Army-Navy Assess- ment Committee listed only three ships as having been sunk: one cargo vessel by joint Army-Navy efforts, and one con- verted light cruiser and one converted minesweeper by carrier planes. 35. Msg. $625, Wainwright to WD, 28 Mar. 1942. 7 16 36. H e reported that before leaving Corregidor he had prepared plans for an air attack to be staged from Australia through Mindanao against points in the Philippines, and General Sutherland later stated that MacArthur “originated the idea” of this attack. (Msg. #56, Mac- Arthur to Marshall, 3 1 Mar. 1942; inter- view with Lt. Gen. Richard K. Suther- land by Walter D. Edmonds, 4 June 37. Histories, 27th and 3d Gps.; 13th and 90th Sqs.; 435th Overseas; Obert and Brown statements. 38. Histories, 27th and 3d Gps.; 12th and 90th Sqs.; 435th Overseas. 39. Msg., Marshall to MacArthur, #I097, 4 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-3458 (4-19- 42), USAFFE to Marshall, #AC 365, 19 Apr. 1942; CCS 10th Mtg., 7 Mar. 1942; JCS 5th Mtg., 9 Mar. 1942; CCS 12th Mtg., 17 Mar. 1942; USSBS, Employment of Forces. 40. USSBS, Employment of Forces. See discussion of modifications of orig- inal directive in JWPC 87/1, z Oct. 1943. 41. G O I , Hq. SWPA, 18 Apr. 1941. MacArthur believed that none of his forces was adequate to carry out his directive. Without a carrier, he said, his naval forces would be limited only to minor operations; except for less than two divisions of Australian infantry, his ground forces were inadequately trained; and because of a lack of organization and training, his air forces would require at least four months of intensive effort to reach a satisfactory condition. (Msg. #538, MacArthur to Marshall, I May 42. G O I (with Annex I ) , Hq. Allied Air Forces, 20 Apr. 1942. 43. Interview with Lt. Col. C.D. Kauffman, Signal Sec., FEASC, 1 2 Aug. 1944; Lt. Gen. George Brett report, Air Operations in Australia, Summary Q, in AFSHO files; GO I and 4, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 20 Apr. and 2 May 1942; memo for C/S, W D from Maj. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Jr., Report #f, 9 July 1942- 4. Richardson Report #5; GO 6, Hq. Allied Air Forces, X I May 1942; Brett report, as in n. 43. ‘945.) 1942.)
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