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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…
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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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