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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
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1 1 3 . USSBS Intr. 101, Capt. Taisuke
114. Zbid.; USSBS, Intr. 97, Comdr.
M. Okumiya, 10 Oct. 1945; USSBS,
Campaigns of the Pacific W a r , pp. 78-79.
115. ONI Combat Narratives, T h e
Aleutians Campaign, June 1942-Aug.
1943. P. 5 -
116. History, Army Air Base, APO
948, 26 Aug. 1941-31 July 1944, pp. 7-8.
1 1 7 . Zbid., p. 12; History, Eleventh
118. History, Eleventh Air Force, pp.
119. Zbid., p. 149; Hq. Eleventh AF,
FO 2 , I June 1942, incl. 9, in History,
A-3, Eleventh Air Force.
120. History, Army Air Base, APO
121. H i s t o r y , 28th Bomb. Gp.
(Comp.), I Feb. 1940-31 Mar. 1944, p.
13; History, 36th Bomb. Sq., I Feb.
1940-31 Aug. 1943.
1 2 2 . History, Eleventh Air Force, p.
'44.
1 2 3 . Ibid.
124. History, 28th Bomb. Gp., p. 28.
1 2 5 . Ibid., pp. 28-29.
126. USSBS Intr. 97, Comdr. M.
Okumiya, p. 2 .
127. ONI, The Aleutians Campaign,
p. 6.
128. Ibid., pp. 6-7. ONI reports show
approximately fifteen fighters in this
initial attack, but Japanese records in-
dicate only six fighters reached the
target. (USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific
129. USSBS htr. 97, p. 3; History,
11th Fighter Sq., Actv. to I Jan. 1944.
130. H i s t o r y , 11th Fighter Sq.;
USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific W a r ,
p. 79.
ItO, I 1 OCt. 1945.
Air Force, p. 141.
139, 142.
94'3, p* 8.
W a r , p. 79.)
1 3 1 . USSBS Intr. 97.
132. ONI, The Aleutians Campaign,
133. History, 11th Fighter Sq., p. 38;
USSBS, Intr. 97; lu., Capt. Milton H.
pp. 7-8.
Ashkins, CO, I Ith Fighter Sq. to CO Air
Forces, Umnak, Alaska, Engagement of
Enemy Aircraft, 4. June 1942, incl. E, in
History, Army Air Base, APO 948.
134. Ltr., Gen. Butler to C G ADC,
n.d., in G-2 Per. Reports; cf. ltr., Gen.
Butler to Gen. Arnold, 16 June 1942.
135. History, Eleventh Air Force, p.
150.
136. USSBS Intr. 97.
137. Statement of Col. Eareckson to
C G Eleventh AF, 8 June 1942, incl. 168,
in History, Eleventh Air Force, App. A.
138. History, Eleventh Air Force, p.
152; USSBS Intr. 97.
139. USSBS Intr. 97; USSBS Memo
fNav 1 1 , Final Report in Answer to
Memorandum # I I from the United
States Bombing Survey, 16 Oct. 1945,
P. 4'.
140. ONI, The Aleutians Campaign,
p. 8.
141. Ltr., Col. A.W. Marriner, Dir. of
Com. to CSigO, 14 Aug. 1942; Combat
Summaries, App. F, in AAF Historical
Study No. 4, Alaskan Air Defense and
the Japanese Invasion of the Aleutians;
Fourth Air Force Hist. Study IV-2, I,
142. ONI, The Aleutians Campaign,
p. 9. Four PBY's of a total force of
twenty were lost in this period. (USSBS,
Campaigns of the Pacific W a r , p. 89.)
143. USSBS Intr. 97. Enemy records
indicate a loss of seven aircraft in the
Dutch Harbor attacks. (USSBS, Cam-
paigns of the Pacific W a r , p. 89.)
144. USSBS Intr. 1 0 1 , Capt. Taisuke
Ito, p. 2 ; 367, Vice Adm. S. Omori and
Capt. R. Arichika, 15-16 Nov. 1945, p. 2 ;
USSBS, Campaigns of the Pacific War,
145. USSBS Intr. 503, Vice Adm. S.
146. Zbid.; USSBS Intr. 32. Vice A h .
147. USSBS Inu. 258, Rear Adm.
148. USSBS Intr. 65, Capt. y. Wa-
1 0 2 .
p. 81.
Fukudome, p. 39.
T. Ozawa, 16 Oct. 1945, p. 8.
Toshitane Takata, I Nov. 1945, p. 2 .
tanabe, 15 Oct. 1945, p. 6.
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