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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.

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  • p. 48 …This navy of the air is to be expanded until no part of Germany is safe…
  • p. 53 …the Navy, and civilian agencies- the terms “independent,” “separate,” and “united air force” were used interchangeably…
  • p. 60 …n 5 September he used the recent disaster to the Navy’s dirigible Sheizandoah as an…
  • p. 62 …appointed in each of several departments-War, Navy, Commerce- to supervise aviation. The Lampert report, published…
  • p. 71 …delaying them, so that bombardment had been used to cut communications and to interfere with the…
  • p. 86 …One might suppose that Douhet, who “really struck the first blow,” was most useful; his work…
  • p. 88 …the desired support of the War and Navy departments. Only two months after the major submitted…
  • p. 96 …issues between the Army and the Navy over the use of aircraft in coastal defense. Neither…
  • p. 105 …The Navy would provide aircraPt for don, scouting, and patrolling over the sea and for the…
  • p. 107 …both the Army and the Navy for aviation to be used in support of “the Infantry…
  • p. 113 …Japanese Air Power The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air arms, had…
  • p. 116 …T h e navy, on the other hand, gave closer attention to the training of all…
  • p. 117 …0 single-engine fighter used by both the Japanese army and navy-was widely known to…
  • p. 118 …In comparison with the I 1,000 pilots trained by the US. Army and Navy during…
  • p. 120 …In the war against Ethiopia, 1935-36, Italian bombers gained experience in the use of various…
  • p. 125 …Under this arrangement the Luftwaffe, along with the army and navy, had direct access to the…
  • p. 126 …Goering had successfully opposed the navy's desire for its own separate air arm, and the…
  • p. 131 …The German navy was unable to provide such a guarantee, and, moreover, it lacked necessary equipment…
  • p. 144 …This subject had been under study by the Army arid Navy for more than a decade…
  • p. 146 …even at the expense of speed and useful load. A few months later Air Corps observers…
  • p. 154 …a t best deny us the moral support of the Royal Navy with its shipyards, and…
  • p. 155 …use of a mobile striking force to intercept an enemy approaching by sea. The Navy had…
  • p. 156 …in support of or in lieu of US. Navy forces against hostile fleet^.'^ In each case…
  • p. 162 …announced the arrival on the island of US. Navy At the suggestion of Iceland, the United…
  • p. 170 …AAF and the British, 800 for the US.Navy.’’’ This would total 60,000 aircraft a…
  • p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the US. Army and Navy…
  • p. 179 …In harmony with the general strategy advocated, US. air forces in the Pacific and Far East…
  • p. 180 …For each command, the mission of the Army (including air forces) and the Navy was described…
  • p. 200 …An alert system was in use twenty-four hours a day, and air operations were carried…
  • p. 206 …Scattered throughout Panama were seven auxiliary airfields, two of which were ready for immediate use, and…
  • p. 218 …Since the required number of planes represented more heavy bombers than were then in use in…
  • p. 224 …regarding the possibility of using fields under construction by the Navy a t Palmyra and Samoa…
  • p. 225 …I 942.* It devel- oped that the Navy could not offer assistance in construction until after…
  • p. 228 …MacArthur had requested permission for emer- gency use of airfields; and negotiations were furthered by conferences…
  • p. 243 …This action lasted about an hour.‘ At its end the Navy had suffered a crushing blow…
  • p. 282 …But the US. Navy had been hard hit at Pearl Harbor, the bal- ance of naval…
  • p. 297 …the Secretary of the Navy as to allocation between the using services. No relative priorities were…
  • p. 305 …Army, Navy, and AAF, and similar representatives of the British services. T h e American members…
  • p. 306 …Joint Intelligence Committee, consisted of the directors of intelligence from the Army, Navy, and AAF, and…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 317 …AAF officers were schooled to avoid use of the term “independent air force,” but in most…
  • p. 326 …after 7 December 1941.T h e Navy was responsible for the general strategic defense of…
  • p. 328 …In the absence of adequate preparations, sirens on police cars were used to warn the people…
  • p. 335 …views between the W a r and Navy departments, and the unsatisfying conjectures advanced by the…
  • p. 410 …ready for use; and it had to be divided between the Army and Navy. On the…
  • p. 424 …Agreements had been reached for the use of Australian bases in the ferrying of heavy 366
  • p. 464 …For inter-island air trans- port, principal reliance was placed on two Navy PBY’s and…
  • p. 489 …In their prior planning, Army and Navy commanders had devoted scant attention to the problems of…
  • p. 495 …Under the joint Army-Navy plan, approximately 15,000 men of the 37th Division were to…
  • p. 497 …R I 1 precipitated the war, the US. Navy had taken a stand against im- mediate…
  • p. 501 …the end he refused to permit the use of the field at Chu- chow. But the…
  • p. 505 …into thickly settled districts, and these were used by the Japanese to justify the subsequent execution…
  • p. 508 …the S010mons.~~ As early as February, the US. Navy had definite indications of an enemy offensive…
  • p. 509 …The Navy’s lack of knowledge of these sightings is unexplained. 4-48
  • p. 514 …T o be sure, it would be impossible to use Carrier Division Five, for the Shokaku…
  • p. 527 …s and B-24's for naval use in long-range search and tracking."' Furthermore, he…
  • p. 529 …D W A R I 1 planes, useful in covering the northern approaches across the Pacific…
  • p. 534 …For the US. forces on Unalaska Island, it represented a loss of 2 2 , 0 0…
  • p. 536 …T h e Japanese navy had sustained its initial defeats, but the army as yet had…
  • p. 588 …Army aircraft might, however, temporarily execute Navy functions in support of or in lieu of Navy…
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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