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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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N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 5 5 - 6 2 85. History, Second Air Force, 7 Dec. 1941-31 Dec. 1942, I, 160; CM-OUT- 6011 ( 2 8 May 1942). Marshall to CG Haw. Dept., f3975, 28 May 1942; CM- OUT-3526 ( 1 5 June 1942), Marshall to CG Haw. Dept., #4307, 15 June 1942. By LO May General Marshall informed Emmons that two heavy and one medi- um bombardment squadrons en route to South Pacific bases would be held in Hawaii. (CM-OUT-4119, Marshall to Emmons, 20 May 1942.) 86. Ltr., Gen. Davidson to CG AAF, 1 3 June 1942, as cited in n. 82; CM-IN- go01 (31 May 1942)~Emmons to CSA, 87. Ltr., Gen. Davidson to CG AAF, 1 3 June 1942; memo for G-3 Seventh AF from CG VIF Bomber Command, 6 June 1942, cited in Operations of Seventh Air Force, p. 14. 88. ONI, Battle of Midway, p. 5 . 89. Memo for G-3 Seventh AF from CG VII Bomber Command, 6 June 1942. 90. Seventh Air Force and the Battle of Midway, 3-6 June, cited in Operations of the Seventh Air Force, p. 15; ONI, Battle of Midway, p. 6. 91. USSBS Intr. 65 (Sup.), Capt. Y. Watanabe, 14 Nov. 1945, p. 6; 530, Rear Adm. Akira Soji, 2 3 Dec. 1945, p. 2 . 92. Ltr., Gen. Davidson to CG AAF, 13 June 1942; ONI, Battle of Midway, P. 7. 93. ONI, Battle of Midway, p. 8; interview with Lt. Col. Ira L. Kimes, USMC, 3 1 Aug. 1942. 94. See statement of Maj. Gen. George C. Kenney, in Critique of Joint Army-Navy Exercise No. 3, 2 1 Apr. 1942, Doc. 151, in Fourth Air Force Hist. Study 111-2, Defense Plans and Opera- tions, Vol. V; ltr., CG Fourth AF to CG WDC, 1 2 Mar. 1942, Transfer of the Bomber Command to Naval Control, Doc. 196, ibid. 95. USSBS Intr. 530, Capt. Y. Wata- nabe, 27 Dec. 1945, pp. 1g-20; and Capt. Y. Toyama, 14 Jan. 1946, p. 68. The evidence for this hit is not conclusive. 96. USSBS Fntr. 252, Capt. Y. Toyama, p. 4; ONF, Battle of Midway, p. 9. $429, 3 1 May 1942. 7 2 0 97. USSBS Intr. 530, Capt. Y. Wa- tanabe, 27 Dec. 1945; ONI, Battle of Midway, pp. 16-17; USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific W a r , p. 59. 98. ONI, Battle of Midway, p. 26; USSBS, C m p a i g n s of the Pacific W a r , P. 63. 99. USSBS Intr. 530, Capt. Y. Wa- tanabe, 27 Dec. 1945, p. 1 5 ; USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific War, pp. 59, 63-64. 100. USSBS Intr. 65, Capt. Y. Wa- tanabe; ONI, Battle of Midway, pp. 44- 50. 1 0 1 . CM-IN-4180 (13 June 1942), Emmons to C/S USA, #771, 1 3 June 1942; msg., Emmons to C/S USA, 1 2 June 1942, cited in Operations of Seventh Air Force, pp. I ~ Z O . 102. CM-IN-4180 ( 1 3 June 1942), Emmons to C/S USA, #771, 1 3 June 1942; interview with Maj. Gen. O.A. Ander- son, 18 Mar. 1945; interview with Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, 19 Apr. 1946. 1 0 3 . Interview with Lt. Col. Ira L. Kimes, p. 1 1 ; ltr., Gen. Davidson to CG AAF, 1 3 June 1942. 104. Ltr., Gen. Hale, CG VII Bomber Command to CG Hq. Haw. Dept. thru CG Seventh AF, 3 June 1942, cited in Operations of Seventh Air Force, p. 2 1 ; Hale interview. 105. USSBS Intr. 530, Capt. Michiso Tsutsumi, 26 Dec. 1945, pp. 26, 30. 106. USSBS Intr. 530, Vice Adm. R. Kusaka, 3 0 Dec. 1945, p. 43. A similar result was attributed to the Marine dive bombers, whose pilots achieved very few hits. (USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific W a r , p. 60.) 107. Cited in memo for CG AAF from Col. J.R. Deane, Report of Battle of Midway, 4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in R&R, AFDMR to AFCAS, 15 Aug. 1942. 1 1 0 . Ibid. I I I . R&R, AFAEP to AFDMR, 14 112. USSBS Intr. 503, Vice Adm. S. Aug. 1942. Fukudome, 9 Dec. 1945.
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