The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

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Ghormley recommended that the initia-
tion of the offensive be deferred” because
of insufficient resources. (USSBS, Em-
ployment of Forces under the Southwest
Pacific Command [Feb. 19471, p. 10.)
9. Enemy statistics from Allied Air
Forces and RAAF Intelligence Sum-
maries; Allied statistics from cable status
reports. See also Histories, 49th and 35th
Fighter Gps.
10. CM-IN-2 I 14 (4-8-42), Australia
to T A G , 8 Apr. 1942; interview with
Capt. Charles L. Marburg, 3 Nov. 1942;
interview with Capt. Carey L. OBrien, 5
Dec. 1942; Lt. Gen. George Brett report,
Air Operations in Australia, Sum. J ; un-
recorded interview with Maj. M.J.
Keane, Mar. 1944; Eric Feldt, T h e Coast-
watchers (New York, 1946).
11. RAAF Intel. Sums.; History, 49th
Fighter Gp.
12. History, 49th Fighter Gp.; His-
tory, V Fighter Command.
13. Memo for C/S from Maj. Gen.
Robert C. Richardson, Jr., Report $5, 9
July 1942; Brett report; CM-IN-7277
$811, 26 May 1942. It will be recalled
that two squadrons of the 8th Fighter
Group equipped with P-39’s had reached
Port Moresby by I May. (See chap. 11.)
14. RAAF and Allied AF Intel. Sums.;
cable status reports; Histories, 39th and
40th Sqs. and V Fighter Command. The
heaviest raid of this period damaged
water mains, burned fuel dumps, and
destroyed two P-39’s and one P-400 on
the ground.
15. See sources in n. 14 and CM-IN-
AAF, #A119, 19 July 1942. A t least
twenty P-39’s and P-400’s were destroyed
during June and eight more in July by
enemy action.
16. Osmar White, Green Amour
(New York, 1945), p. 148; msg., Brett to
NE Area, Townsville, I I May 1 9 4 2 ; msg.,
Hq. USA Townsville to Hq. USAFIA,
12 May 1942; msg., NE Area, Towns-
ville to Hq. Allied AF, 14 May 1942;
Histories, 374th Troop Carrier Gp., 3d
Bomb. Gp., 13th and 90th Bomb. as.;
(5-26-42), GHQ SWPA to AGWAR,
6849 (7-20-42), GHQ SWPA to C G
CM-IN4701 (7-2-42), GHQ SWPA to
C/S, #27, 3 July 1942; CM-IN-925,
GHQ SWPA to C/S, #CIS, 3 July 1942.
17. Histories, 3d and 27th Bomb.
Gps.; cable status reports.
18. Histories, 27th Bomb. Gp. and
13th Bomb. Sq.; Consolidated Statistical
Report, Materiel Command, Sec. Vl’, 30
June 1942; cable status reports.
19. R A M and Allied AF Intel. Sums.,
specifically #14, 3 July 1942, p. 6; Keane
interview; Histories, 13th and 90th Sqs.
20. Ibid.; RAAF and Allied AF Intel.
Sums. During this same period and in
these same bomber missions, Allied crews
claimed twenty enemy fighters shot
down.
2 1 . Histories, 8th Photo Sq., 435th
Bomb. Sq., and 3d Gp.; interview with
Maj. Frank P. Bostrom, 5 Dec. 1942;
cable status reports.
2 2 . Interview with Lt. Col. W.F.
Coleman by author, 2 1 June 1946.
23. RAAF and Allied AF Intel. Sums.
24. Cable status reports; Bostrom
interview; Sec. of War’s Conference,
18 May 1942; AFDAS to AFAEP, 14
May 1942.
2 5 . See, for example, General Arnold‘s
undated memo to General Marshall in
regard to JCS 48, and AAJ? Reference
History No. I, The AAF in the South
Pacific to October 1942.
26. Enemy Order of Battle, from
RAAF and Allied AF Intel. Sums.; other
statistics from cable status reports. It
should also be pointed out that the Jap-
anese had no four-engine bombers for
offensive missions.
27. Thus the flow of aircraft was
hardly providing the supposedly estab-
lished wastage of 20 per cent a month.
(Cable status reports; c M - o u T - 7 5 ~ ~
[629-42], Arnold to CinC/SWPA, $308,
2 9 June 1942.)
28. Lt. Col. William J. Kennard, Re-
port on Philippine and Australian Activi-
ties, 14 Nov. 1942.
29. Coleman interview; interview with
members of 19th Bomb. Gp., 5 Dec. 1942;
statement of Col. William Hipps to
author; Kennard report; Richardson and
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