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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 9 2 - 9 7
29. CM-OUT, AGO to Wheeler, 3
Mar. 1942.
30. Histories, Hq. Tenth Air Force,
51st Service Gp., 51st Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; Russell
interview.
31. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942; Supplies and Services to be
Rendered to USA Forces in India, rec-
ord of meeting held 22 Mar. 1942, in
Ninth AF, Papers Relating to USAAF
in India, 1942.
3 2 . T h e mission was composed of
Henry F. Grady, H.E. Beyster, Dirk
Deltker, A.W. Herrington, and Frank A.
Waring. They arrived a t New Delhi on
17 April and departed from Karachi 2 2
May. ( A Survey of India's Industrial
Production for W a r Purposes, Report of
the American Technical Mission to India
[hereinafter cited as Grady report], sub-
mitted to the governments of India and
the United States, August 1942.)
WAR, #4 ST, 19 Feb. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila 83, 1 5 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 5, 30 Mar. 1942.
34. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold:
#Aquila 83, 15 Mar.; #Aquila 19, 2 6 Mar.;
and #Aquila 24, 18 Mar. 1942; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 5, 30
Mar. 1942; interview with Col. Homer
L. Sanders (Air Room), June 1943;CM-
IN, ABDACOM to AGWAR, 37 DX,
17 Feb., and #17, 19 Feb. 1942.
35. CM-IN-I.B. 70, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 63, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila I, 26 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
$Aquila 1 3 1 , 2 8 Mar. 1942; memo for
C/AS from O.L. Ferson, AFROM, 2 3
Apr. 1942.
36. CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 64, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Karachi
to Arnold, #618, 29 Apr. 1942.
37. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#AMSEG 516, 2 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-
35, Arnold to Brereton, #AF 3/89, 5 Mar.
1942; memo for Chief, WPD, W D G S
from Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942; History, X
Air Force Service Command, 1942.
33. CM-IN, ABDACOM to AG-
725
Staff, Washington, 2 5 Mar. 1942. Also,
see popular accounts of AVG.
18. CM-IN, Magruder to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 161,4 Jan. 1942;CM-OUT-
0046, Marshall to Brereton, $93, I Apr.
1942; memo for AS/W John J. McCloy
from Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville, Dir.
of Air Defense; memo for Gen. Arnold
from Lt. Col. H.A. Halverson, 3 Feb.
1942; memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR.
19, Col. John Y. York, Jr., Report on
Planes for A V G and Chinese, 6 Mar.
1942; Maj. Paul G. Pennoyer, Report on
Planes for China and AVG, I Apr. 1942;
CM-OUT-3 268, Arnold to Marshall,
#362, 17 Apr. 1942.
20. CM-IN, GHQ Java to T A G , sgd.
Brett, #ABDA 448 A, 18 Feb. 1942; CM-
IN, Brett to AGWAR, 10 Feb. 1942.
21. ABC-4/9, 10 Jan. 1942.
22. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR, 18 Mar. 1942; memo for AAG
from Col. H.L. George, AC/AS, AWPD,
2 3 Feb. 1942; R&R, Maj. Gen. M.F. Har-
mon, C/AS to Col. Shumacker, 17 Mar.
'942.
2 3 . CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
18 Mar. 1942; History, Hq. and Hq. Sq.,
Tenth Air Force.
24. Histories, 51st Service Gp., Hq.
Tenth Air Force, 5Ist Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, # I I Z , 2 8 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
19 Mar. 1942.
25. Memo for C/AS from Col. H.A.
Craig, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-99,
Arnold to Brereton, #AAF PC 42, z Apr.
1942; History, 59th Service Sq., 1941-42.
26. CM-OUT-57, Ulio to Brereton,
#AAF RC 165, 20 Mar. 1942; CM-IN-
2400, Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila
1724, 8 June 1942; Lt. Col. John E. Barr,
Report on P-40 Mission, Special Project
157, 19 June 1942. in History, Hq. Tenth
Air Force, 1942.
27. Barr report.
28. Interview with Brig. Gen. Clinton
W. Russell, 4. June 1942; CM-IN, Brere-
ton to Arnold, #AMSEG 516, 2 Mar.
1942.

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