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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 8 2 - 9 0 Brett reports; CM-IN-6753 (5-24-42), MacArthur to C/S, #798, 24 May 1942. 30. See sources in n. 29. 31. CM-IN-5228 (7-15-42), GHQ to C/S #CIIO, 1 5 July 1942; interview with Maj. Tom A. Montgomery, in History, ASC in SWPA; Hq. US. Army Air Services to C G AAF, 7 July 1942, ibid.; AAF, #89, 1 5 July 1942; CM-IN-0998 July 1942; interview with Capt. Vincent L. Snyder (19th Bomb. Gp.). 32. It should be noted that General MacArthur had felt as early as May that his air force could be strengthened by reorganization. Since this reorganization did not begin until August 1942, it will be discussed in a subsequent volume. (Msg., Arnold to C G USAFIA, 10 May 1942; CM-IN-8604 [6-26-42], GHQ SWPA to AGWAR, #74, 26 June 1942; C M - I N - ~ I ~ O Z[6-30-4~1, GHQ SWPA to AGWAR, #260, 30 June 1942.) 33. CM-l’N-1697 (8-5-42), MacArthur to C/S, 3 Aug. 1942. CM-IN-5037 (7-15-42). GHQ to C G (7-3-42), GHQ to C G A M , #A159 3 NOTES TO CHAPTER 14 I. History, Hq. Tenth Air Force, 1942; memo for C/S from AAF Hq., 20 Feb. 1942; CM-OUT-29, AGWAR to Brereton, #AF 2/442, 2 5 Feb. 1942; CM- O U T , AGWAR to Brereton, #AF 3/7, I Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, 6 Mar. 1942. 2 . The road from Haiphong, Indo- China, to Yunnan was closed by the Vichy government in 1940 under pressure from the Japanese. (Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Lend-Lease, Weapon for Victory, p. 111.) 3. Ibid., p. 109. 4. Instructions given General Clagett may be found in ltr., C/S to Brig. Gen. H.G. Clagett, Philippine Dept., 29 Mar. 194’- 5 . For formation and implementation of the policy of air aid to China, see AAG 000-800,l’ndia-China and 450, India- China; also, n. 4, in AAF Historical Study No. 12, The Tenth Air Force, 1942, chap. i. 7 2 4 6. Daniel Arnstein, Marco Hellman, and Harold Davis, traffic and trucking experts, reached Chungking in July. John Baker, another American, was made administrator of the Burma Road. Largely as a result of their efforts the tonnage leaving Lashio monthly for China was increased from 4,000 early in 1941 to 15,000 by November. This included gas used by the trucks en route. (Stettinius, Lend-Lease, pp. I I I ff.) 7. Ibid., p. 116; memo for C/S by Brig. Gen. L.T. Gerow, Acting AC/S, WPD, 26 Aug. 1941. 8. For the relationship that the Magruder mission was to bear to Chen- nault’s AVG, see memo for Lauchlin Currie from Oscar Cox, Lend-Lease Administration, 2 8 Nov. 1941. 9. Claire L. Chennault, “Role of De- fensive Pursuit,” Coast Artillery Journal, Nov.-Dec. 1933, pp. 411-17; Jan.-Feb. 10. Stettinius, Lend-Lease, p. 115. I I . See above, n. 5 . 1 2 . Memo for C/S from Gen. Spaatz, C/AS, 3 Dec. 1941. 13. Army Air Force Study Pertain- ing to Proposed Reinforcement of China with Army Air Force Units for the Pur- pose of Assisting the Chinese to Resist the Possible Japanese Attack Against Kunming, 20 Nov. 1941. 14. Memo for C/S from Gen. Spaatz, C/AS, 3 Dec. 1941. 1 5 . Information on A V G operations has been gathered from many fragmen- tary sources such as cable messages (British and American), letters, diaries, interviews, and popular books. No of- ficial source exists, but it is believed that the material included here is as accurate as it has been practicable to make it without a far more extensive study than is appropriate for this work. 16. British msg. #Wtooj57, ABDA- COM (from Wavell) to W a r Office, 26 Jan. 1942; Brit. msg. #DBA 1 1 , CCS to ABDACOM, 6 Feb. 1942. 17. Brit. msgs. #77801 and #78144, W a r Office to Brit. Army Staff, Wash- ington, 2 2 and 24 Mar. 1942; Brit. msg. #78310, GOC BURMA to Brit. Army 1934, pp. 7-1 I ; Mar.-Apr. 1934, pp. 87-93.
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