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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 3 3 - 4 7
17. Ltr., A G to Gen. Patch, A G 381
(1-22-42) MSC-E, 2 2 Jan. 1942; JCCSs-
10, Annex No. 2,
18. Narrative of Operations, America1
Division at Guadalcanal, 28 May 1943;
ltr., C/S to Adm. King, 20 Jan. 1942,
Loading of Transports; unused memo for
T A G from WPD, 19 Jan. 1942, Defense
of New Caledonia. General Patch
reached New Caledonia on 7 March, one
week in advance of the arrival of his
force. (Memo for T A G from WPD, 7
Mar. 1942, Notification to the Command-
ing General, POPPY of the Sailing of
His Force.)
19. CM-OUT-5181, Marshall to Ne-
cal #so, 26 Apr. 1942; msg., MacArthur
to AGWAR #NR 139, 27 Apr. 1942.
20. Ltr., T A G to Gen. Patch, A G 381
(1-22-42) MSC-E, 2 2 Jan. 1942; History,
67th Fighter Sq.
21. Msg., MacArthur to AGWAR,
#NR 139, 27 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-4299,
May 1942.
GHQ SWPA to TAG, #AG 752, 16
2 2 . JCCSs-10, Annex No. 2 .
23. Incl. I , in ltr., CinC U.S. Fleet to
24. Ibid.
C G AAF, 13 May 1942.
25. CM-m-4290. GHQ SWPA to
T A G , # A G 752, 16 May 1942.
26. Cominch File A 16-3 ( o o I ~ ~ ) ,1 2
Mar. 1942, incl. I , in R&R, AFROM to
Tactical Sec., 17 Mar. 1942.
27. History, 68th Fighter Sq.; msg.,
Marshall to C G USAFIA, unnumbered,
16 Mar. 1942.
28. Report, in Joint Board Estimate of
U.S. Over-all Production Requirements,
I I Sept. 1941,Sec. IV.
29. JCS 23, 14 Mar. 1942.
30. Ibid.
31. JCS 23, Annex "A."
32. JCS 23.
33. Memo for Adm, King from C/S,
17 Mar. 1 % ~ .
34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7 Apr. 1942.
35. Memo, n.s. and n.d., in JPS 21/7,
18 Apr. 1942.
36. Ibid.
37. Col. Merian C. Cooper, Briefing
7'8
Officer, First Special Aviation Project,
The Doolittle Air Raid on Japan, dtd.
2 2 June 1942, p. 2 ; Lt. Col. Samuel L.A.
Marshall, Tokyo Raid manuscript, p. 2 .
38. CM-OUT-464, Marshall to AM-
MISCA, 12 Apr. 1942.
39. Tokyo Raid ms., p. 12; ltr., Lt.
Col. Doolittle to Lt. Gen. H.H. Arnold,
2 8 Mar. 1942.
40. Tokyo Raid ms., p. 16.
41. Cooper report, as cited in n. 37,
p. 4.
42. 1st ind. (CO Enterprise, Serial
088, 2 3 Apr. 1942), CO Carriers, Pacific
Fleet (CO T.F. 16) to CinCPac Fleet;
General Doolittle's Report on Japanese
Raid, dtd. 5 June 1942, in AAG K-543.
43. USSBS, Military Analysis Div.,
Japanese Air Power, pp. 9-10; USSBS
Intr. 479, Capt. M. Genda, 28-29 Nov.
'945-
44. USSBS Intr. 495, Capt. T. Ohmae,
6 Dec. 1945; Answers t o Military Anal-
ysis Div. Questionnaire 16, Lt. Cols. T.
Shimatani and K. Tanaka, 17 Jan. 1946.
45. Tokyo Raid ms., p. jo.
46. USSBS Memo #Nav 1 1 , 16 Oct.
'9451 p. 40.
47. USSBS, Japanese Air Power, pp.
9-10.
48. USSBS, Summary Report (Pacific
W a r ) , pp. 3-4; USSBS, Japanese Air
Power, pp. 9-10; USSBS, Campaigns of
the Pacific W a r , p . 4; USSBS, Intr. 192,
Capt. T. Ohmae, 30 Oct. 1945, p. 2 ;
USSBS Intr. 495, Capt. T. Ohmae, 6
Dec. 1945, pp. 2-3.
49. USSBS Intr. 524, Vice Adm.
Shigeru Fukudome, 1 2 Dec. 1945, p. 10.
so. USSBS Intr. 447, Lt. Gen. Kawa-
be, 26 Nov. 1945; 498, Fleet Adm. Osami
Nagano, 30 Nov. 1945; 467, Comdr.
Tadashi Yamamoto and Capt. Toshikazu
Ohmae, 20 Nov. 1945, p. 10; USSBS,
Campaigns of the Pacific War, pp. 4-5.
5 1 . USSBS Intr. 498, Fleet Adm. 0.
Nagano, p. 5.
52. USSBS Intr. 503, Vice Adm. S.
Fukudome, p. 37; 467, Comdr. T. Yama-
mot0 and Capt. T. Ohmae, p. 10.
53. ON1 Combat Narratives, The
Battle of the Coral Sea, pp. 1-2; Navy

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