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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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“The Invaders”15 pages

  • p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 4 7 - 5 4
msg., F-35 Navy, CinCPac Fleet, 19 Feb. mon, 2 5 May 1942, in memo for OPD
'942. from AC/AS, Plans, I July 1942.
54. USSBS Intr. 503, Vice Adm. S. 71. USSBS Intr. 5 3 , Capt. M.
Fukudome, p. 38; USSBS, Campaigns of Yamaoka; 444, Capt. Mieno, 26 Nov.
55. AAF Historical Study No. 9, T h e 7 2 . USSBS Intr. 524, Vice Adm. S.
AAF in Australia to the Summer of 1942, Fukudome; 5 0 3 , Vice Adm. S. Fuku-
p. 118; USSBS Intr. 475, Comdr. Masa- dome, pp. 38-39; USSBS, Campaigns of
take Okumiya, 29 Nov. 1945. the Pacific W a r , p. 58.
56. Summary of Operations of the 7 3 . USSBS Intr. 192, Capt. T. Ohmae,
435th Bomb. Squadron, in App. G., His- 3 0 Oct. 1945; 65, Capt. Y. Watanabe,
tory, 435th Bomb. Sq. 15 Oct. 1945; 252, Capt. Y. Toyama, I
57. ONI, Battle of the Coral Sea, p. Nov. 1945.
9; USSBS Intr. 5 3 , Capt. M. Yamaoka, 74. USSBS Intr. 524, Vice Adm. S.
I9 OCt. 1945. Fukudome.
58. USSBS Intr. 5 3 , Annex A, Capt. 75. CM-IN-4577 ( 1 7 May 19421,
M. Yamaoka, 20 Oct. 1945; 46, Comdrs. Emmons to C/S, f96, 16 May 1942;
H. Sekino and Masatake Okumiya, 1 7 Fourth Air Force Historical Study IV-2,
OCt. 1945. Processing Functions and Relations with
59. History, 90th Bomb. Sq. (L), 2 5 Mask% P- 88.
Sept. 1917-31 Mar. 1944; reconnaissance 76. ON1 Combat Narratives, The
reports for 4 and 5 May, in Allied Air Battle of Midway, pp. 2-3.
July '94'. In The Campaigns Of the Richardson to C/S, #423, 3 1 May 1942.
Pacific W a r , page 5 2 , it is stated that no
contact with the enemy force occurred 78. WPD Weekly Status Maps* AG
until 6 May. 061 (4 Sept. 1945). At the end of April
these figures were given as 3 1 heavy
60. History, 3d Bomb. GP.9 1 July bombers, 9 light bombers, 178 pursuit
1919-31 Mar. 1944. planes, and 34 miscellaneous. (Incl. [ JCS
61. ONI, Battle of the Coral Sea, pp. 481, Annex to Report by JUSSC, 29 APT.
14-16. 1942.) The OPD Status Map of 3 0 April
62. USSBS Intr. 46, Comdn. H. I942 listed 3 2 heavies, 1 5 mediums, 9
&kin0 and M. Okumiya; USSBS, cam- light bombers, 1 8 2 pursuit, 2nd 27 mis-
cellaneous.paigns of the Pacific War, p. 52.
63. USSBS Intr. 53, Capt. M. Yamaoka. 79. Growth Of Heavy and Medium
Bombardment Units in the Seventh Air
Force, 7 Dec. 1941-31 Aug. 1944, p. 1 1 .
64. USSBS Intr. 46.
65. USSBS, Campaigns O f the P a c i f i c 80. Ltr., Brig. Gen. H.C. Davidson to
war, p. 53. C G Seventh AF, 24 Mar. 1942, cited in
66. USSBS Intr. 65 (Sup.), Capt. Operations of Seventh Air Force, 7 Dec.
Yasuji Watanabe, 14 Nov. 1945; CM- 1941-13 Nov. 1943, p. 1 3 .
IN-3622 ( 1 3 May I942)1 A k A d ~ rto 81. Ltr., Col. James A. Mollison, C/S
C/S, #AG 719, 1 3 May 1942. Seventh AF to C G AAF, 8 Apr. 19423
67. CM-IN-36~2, Melbourne to C/S, cited ibid., p. 13.
$719, 1 3 May 1942. 82. Ltr., Gen. Davidson, C G Seventh
68. Ibid. AF to CG AAF, 1 3 June 1942, cited
69. rnterview with Col. Richard H. ibid., PP. I3-W CM-1N-3881 ('4 May
Carmichael and members of the 19th '943). Emmons to CG AAF, $ 5 3 9 '4
Bomb. Gp., 5 Dec. 1942; interview with May 1942*
Lt. Col. Dill Ellis by author, 2 1 Feb.
1946. 84. CM-IN-5813 ( 2 1 May 1942).
70. Ltr., Gen. Royce to Gen. Har- Fielder to A/CS, G z , f 1 9 1 , 2 1 R,Iay 1942.
the Pacific W a r , p. 3 . '945.
Forces Operations Report% 4 Apr* to 3 1 77. CM-IN-8825 ( 3 1 May 1942)~
83. JPS 21/7, 18 Apr. 1942.
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