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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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“Mission Control”60+ pages

  • p. 40 …On recommendation of an American mission sent to Europe in June under newly commissioned Col. Raynal…
  • p. 50 …a r I1 and its self- conceived mission can be appreciated only in light of a…
  • p. 52 …In the lower grades, where promotion was controlled inexorably by seniority, Air Service pilots found themselves…
  • p. 56 …complete control of the Army and form an integral part thereof.” Yet the Crowell mission, appointed…
  • p. 60 …The Lampert Committee went far beyond its designated mission, bringing under review the whole province of…
  • p. 63 …to it a more or less independent mission. Experi- ence in World War I seemed to…
  • p. 65 …Command respon- sibility for that mission within the Air Corps devolved upon the Com- manding General…
  • p. 66 …Navy in further- awe of their respective missions. The Air Corps Tactical School claimed for air…
  • p. 69 …which fights for and gains control of the air,’’ and to calculate a well-balanced air…
  • p. 71 …Mitchell could still believe that “it was an established fact that the principal mission of an…
  • p. 80 …based on the fundamental doctrine that their mission is to aid the ground forces to gain…
  • p. 81 …The mission of the Army was defense of the United States and its outlying territories, but…
  • p. 129 …assigned to the air force an independent mission of strategic bombing. Accordingly, in March 1918 the…
  • p. 155 …By taking control of French or English colonial possessions, victorious Axis powers might lodge themselves at…
  • p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the US. Army and Navy…
  • p. 235 …Long-standing differences between the Army and Navy over jurisdictional control of offshore patrol had brought…
  • p. 241 …And because the chain of command in both Pacific areas and in Washington vested ultimate control…
  • p. 270 …Other combat activity by pursuit piiots was incidental to scheduled reconnaissance missions, as when on I…
  • p. 273 …Atlantic and India,” would come under his control at Bangal~re.’~ It soon became evident, however…
  • p. 295 …American forces in Burma, and later in India, had as a primary mission the promotion of…
  • p. 306 …The mission of the MAB was to keep current estimates of U.S.-British munitions resources…
  • p. 308 …of a “nucleus of GHQ.” Its original mission was to direct the training of the tactical…
  • p. 314 …The field forces remained under the control of the General Staff, and the War Plans Division…
  • p. 316 …General Arnold’s control of the US. Air Force is as com- plete, virtually, as is…
  • p. 317 …it also made possible a certain indirect control from Washington through letters written more often in…
  • p. 343 …To permit effective control of fighter planes at night or during bad weather would have required…
  • p. 368 …constituted as of 29 May.’l The mission of the new command was, first, “to move…
  • p. 379 …A North African military mission under Brig. Gen. Russell H. Maxwell had been established at Cairo…
  • p. 397 …In helping to prepare HALPRO for overseas movement by air and in controlling the flight along…
  • p. 412 …to perform a series of remarkable special missions. Shuttling between Australia, the Philippines, the Nether- lands…
  • p. 426 …formation of task forces to undertake specific missions, and for their command he was to designate…
  • p. 441 …But of these, four missions involving a total of seventeen bombers were abortive because of un…
  • p. 458 …During January and February the bomber command dispatched approxi- mately sixty heavy bomber missions, for a…
  • p. 464 …attempting a take-off for yet another mission of relief.’ If the Americans on Bataan and…
  • p. 472 …naval control, during which time six of the planes flew the first American bomber mission against…
  • p. 475 …Such missions, however, could be flown only with the greatest expenditure of time and effort. Until…
  • p. 500 …remain in the Far East under the control of General S t i l ~ e l…
  • p. 503 …But circumstances beyond the control of the aircrews were against the flight. Although a fortuitous and…
  • p. 525 …of Midway, nor had it retained operational control of the few planes actually sent up to…
  • p. 527 …If the vulnerable PBY's were shot down while executing their search mission, this was a…
  • p. 549 …those who had flown their first combat mission in April had to fight a feeling of…
  • p. 571 …largest mission to date comprised a total of six bombers- would remain under theater control but…
  • p. 589 …This, the Army felt, might lead ultimately to Navy control of all air forces. As late…
  • p. 620 …At the same time, it initiated projects peculiar to its own mission and by the end…
  • p. 621 …It would work in conjunction with naval forces and under their operational control “wherever this may…
  • p. 646 …the British Joint Staff Mission a t Washington, the American Military Mission at London.” The American…
  • p. 647 …General Chaney opened his headquarters in the American Embassy building on 19 May 1941.'' His mission…
  • p. 648 …Air forces would have two missions: to pro- vide, in certain areas, an “air defense, integrated…
  • p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation with the RAF, of attacking…
  • p. 651 …Military Mission in London-under direct control of the commanding general of U S . Field Forces…
  • p. 654 …They consider that function their primary mission here and are not willing to surrender it.1le…
  • p. 659 …bombardment missions, either by direct coverage or by synchronized fighter sweeps. Strategic control of AAF operations…
  • p. 669 …o n ~ . ~ ’ ~Such operations under the RAF control system required numerous modifications for the plane-about…
  • p. 683 …not be adequate to carry out the mission intended for it under GYM- NAST. H e…
  • p. 684 …T o adapt the Eighth Air Force to its new mission required a con- siderable reshuffling…
  • p. 717 …develop- ment of adequate machinery for the control of combat operations by establishing the Provisional I…
  • p. 728 …2 , 27 AUGUST 2942 HE Eighth Air Force flew its first mission in an atmosphere charged…
  • p. 730 …in preparation for initial operations under RAF control. Each of the three squadrons was attached for…
  • p. 731 …Policy concerning the pro- vision and control of fighter escort had not yet been determined, but…
  • p. 735 …Shortly before 1900 hours, watchers on the control tower spotted a cluster of specks to the…
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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