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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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“The Invaders”15 pages

  • p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
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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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