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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 2 0 - 3 2 60. See sources in n. 59. 61. History, 19th Bomb. Gp. 45. Richardson Report #5. 46. Brett report, Sum. H. 47. lbid.; GO 5 and 10, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 4 and 19 May 1942; Opns. Instructions 3 and 7, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 20 and 28 May 1942, 48. G O 2 and 13, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 2 7 Apr. and 31 May 1942. 49. Brett report, Sum. H; Circular Ltr. 42-13, Hq. US. Army Air Services, 19 May 1942, in AFSHO files; Circular Ltr., 42-1, Hq. Allied Air Forces, 27 Apr. 1942, in Brett report. 5 0 . History, 4th Air Depot Gp.; Cir- cular Ltr. 42-1, as cited in n. 49. 51. History, Air Service Command in SIYPA; GO 4, Hq. U.S. Army Air Services, I I May 1942; ltr., Sperry Gyro- scope Co. to AAF Civilian Personnel, 1 5 May 1942; interview with Milton J. Getker, 28 July 1943. 5 2 . History, ASC in SWPA, pp. 5 ff. 53. Ibid.; History, 4th A 9 Gp. 54. The Air Transport Command in the Southwest Pacific, 7 Dec. 1941-1 Aug. 1944, pp. 12-15; ltr., AFA[TlC to C G AAF, 17 June 1942; ltr., Arnold to C G ASC, attached to R&R, AFDAS to AFATC, 6 June 1942. 5 5 . ATC in the Southwest Pacific, pp. 32, 61-62. 56. Board of Economic Warfare, De- velopments in the W a r Economies of Australia and New Zealand during May 1942, 2 5 June 1942. 57. Fn this first important action of the P-39’s in the SWPA, three enemy aircraft were claimed by the American pilots, and four P-39’s were lost. This was a heavy loss, especially in view of the loss of S I P-39’s in the flight of the unit from Australia to Port Moresby. (Histories, 35th and 36th Sqs.; msg. f15, Scanlon to Allied Air Forces, 5 May 1942; Hq. Allied Air Forces, Operations Report, 29/30 Apr. 1942.) 58. Histories, 3d and 27th Gps.; T h e Marauder, a Book of the zznd Bomb Group (Sydney, 1944). 59. Histories, 8th Photo Sq., 435th Bomb. Sq., and 3d Bomb. Gp.; interview with Maj. Frank P. Bostrom, 5 Dec. 1942. NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 2 I . USSBS (Pacific) Interrogation 503, Vice Adm. Shigeru Fukudome, 9 Dec. ‘9457 p. 37. 2. AWPD/I, Tab 8, (Joint Board) Estimate of US. Over-all Production Requirements, J.B. No. 355 (Serial 707)~ 1 1 Sept. 1941, Sec. 11, Pt. 111, App. 11. 3 . Memo for W P D from S/AS, 9 Dec. 1941. 4. JCCSS-10, Annex No. 2 , Defense of Island Bases between Hawaii and Aus- tralia, 1 3 Jan. 1942. 5 . JCCSS-10, 12 Jan. 1942. 6. JCCSS-10, Annex No. z. 7. History, 67th Fighter Sq.; History, 68th Fighter Sq., Actv. to 3 1 Dec. 1942; memo for Col. Vanaman from AC/AS, AWPD, zo Jan. 1942. 8. JCCSs-9, 1 1 Jan. 1942. 9. Memo for Col. Vanaman from AC/AS, AWPD, 2 0 Jan. 1942. 10. Memo for AC Member, JUSSC from C/AS, 14 Feb. 1942. I I . Directive memo for AC/AS, AWPD from S/AS, 2 3 Feb. 1942. 12. Ltr., A G O to Gen. Arnold, 2 0 Jan. 1942. 1 3 . Ibid. 14. CCS 41, 16 Feb. 1942; R&R, OCAC Operations to Asst. Exec. for Technical Plans and Coordination, 6 Mar. 1942. 1 5 . R&R, OCAC Operations, as in n. 14; CCS 41, 16 Feb. ’942; History, 67th Fighter Sq., Actv. to 3 1 Dec. 1943; His- tory, 68th Fighter Sq. 16. USSBS htr. 516, Maj. Gen. Tat- suhiko Takashima, 29 Nov. 1945; JCCSS- 9, 1 1 Jan. 1942. The Japanese Basic Plan for the conduct of the Pacific war ac- tually listed the conquest of New Cale- donia, Fiji, and Samoa as necessary, but these were to follow after the acquisition of Midway. (USSBS [Pacific], Naval Analysis Div., T h e Campaigns of the Pacific War, p. 3.) 7’7
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