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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
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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