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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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N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 7 4 - 8 2 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 7 2 3
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