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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. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 226 …Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of a shortage of experienced officers, only…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …the arrival in Washington of Prime Minister Churchill, his chiefs of staff, and other high-ranking…
  • p. 290 …stipulated in ABC-I. A t Mr. Churchill’s request, U.S. troops were to relieve…
  • p. 302 …the U.S. forces, and by Mr. Churchill as British Prime Minister and Minister of Defense…
  • p. 303 …Field Marshal Sir John Dill representing Mr. Churchill as Minister of De- fense. Sir John Dill…
  • p. 304 …of such a personal representative of Mr. Churchill might make difficult the maintenance of normal military…
  • p. 425 …O n the same day, Prime Minister Churchill informed Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell of his selection…
  • p. 628 …Western Hemisphere. When the President and Mr. Churchill met with their military staffs in the ARCADIA…
  • p. 630 …strong support in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which…
  • p. 636 …first in a gen- eral meeting with Churchill, later among the airmen alone.34Arnold reviewed the…
  • p. 639 …Much had happened in the two months which had passed since Churchill had approved that plan…
  • p. 640 …Duncan, chief of staff for the Eighth Air Force, wrote from Washington to Spaatz that Churchill…
  • p. 641 …postponement was al- most tantamount to refusal. Churchill was back in London by the 27th. In…
  • p. 642 …then back in Washington, that Roosevelt and Churchill “believed” that T O R C H was…
  • p. 661 …Even during the Battle of Britain, Churchill could tell the House of Commons that “there seems…
  • p. 705 …4 1 . ~ ~The following month, Prime Minister Churchill in conference with Messrs. Harry Hopkins and Averell…
  • p. 810 …2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed., Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5…
  • p. 811 …comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as…
  • p. 845 …L.S., 182 Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133, 1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 4 9 7 - 5 0 4
38. CM-OUT-32, Arnold to Brere-
ton, #AF 3/53, 4 Mar. 1942.
39. Minutes of meeting held in De-
fense Dept. Comm. Room, 2 1 Mar. 1942,
in Ninth AF, Papers Relating to the
USAAF in India, 1942; minutes of second
meeting of the Administrative Planning
Comm. held at Air Hq. (Delhi), Z L Mar.
1942, %id.; CM-IN-0578, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 696, 3 May 1942.
40. Ltr., Brig. Gen. C.V. Haynes to
Lt. Col. Samuel T. Moore, historian,
Tenth AF, 20 Apr. 1943, in History,
India-China Ferry Command, 1942. Col-
onel Haynes had been told by General
Arnold that he would command a bom-
bardment group in India, and he was
somewhat disappointed at his first assign-
ment. (Ltr., Gen. Arnold to Col. Haynes,
2 1 Feb. 1942.)
41. History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand; CM-IN-7009, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 549, 26 Apr. 1942.
42. History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand.
43. CM-l'N-270 I , Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 1700, 9 June 1943.
44. In addition to regular duty, some
of the men served as guards to prevent
sabotage of the aircraft. (History, India-
China Ferry Command; ltr., Capt. A.I.
Boyer to Col. Robert F. Tate, 6 May
1942.)
45. A-2 Summary File, 7 Apr. 1942.
46. CM-0UT-0947, Marshall to Bre-
47. A-2 Summary File, 7 Apr. 1942.
48. Zbid., 18 Apr. and 2 May 1942;
CM-IN-4583, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 356, 17 Apr. 1942.
49. A-2 Summary File, 5 , 6, and 9
May 1942; CM-IN-1663, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 754, 6 May 1942;
CM-IN-1708, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 814, 7 May 1942.
50. A-2 Summary File, 12, 14,.17, and
27 May 1942; CM-IN-6078, Naiden to
AGWAR, #Aquila 3134 L, 18 July 1942.
5 1 . The civilian airline pilots were
accustomed to carrying a load of 2,500
pounds. Army pilots were flying 6,000
pounds into Dinjan and 5,000 pounds into
reton, #113, 6 Apr. 1942.
726
China. A compromise of 4,000 pounds
was reached for the flight to China, but
Colonel Haynes flew 7,200 pounds east-
ward and a CNAC pilot brought 6,920
pounds from Kunming to Dinjan.
Haynes states that one plane hauled sev-
enty-five passengers out of Burma. (His-
tory, India-China Ferry Command;
interview with Albert E. Nelson, Bendix
rep., 24 June 1943; CM-IN, Aquila to
AGWAR, #1135, 19 May 1942.)
5 2 . History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand.
WAR, #3, IO May 1942; CM-IN-3536,
Aquila to AGWAR, 13 May 1942; CM-
IN-7262, Stilwell to AGWAR, #AM-
MISCA 62, 26 May 1942.
54. CM-IN-6689, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 2172, 2 1 June 1942; History,
India-China Ferry Command.
5 5 . CM-OUT-0947, Marshall to Bre-
reton, f113, 6 Apr. 1942.
56. CM-IN-7661, Stilwell to AG-
WAR, #AMMISCA 610, 29 Apr. 1942.
57. Stilwell and others in Chungking
continued to warn the War Department
of the suspicion and distrust that the
Chinese felt toward the British. (CM-
IN-4540, Stilwell to AGWAR, #AM-
MISCA 62, 17 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-4903,
Stilwell to AGWAR, #AMMISCA 540,
18 Apr. 1942.)
58. CM-OUT-3919, M a r s h a l l to
Aquila, #192, 2 1 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-6405,
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 496, 24
Apr. 1942; CM-IN-6746, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 541, 2 5 Apr. 1942. As
early as the breakup of the ABDA Com-
mand in Java, AAF officers had them-
selves been apprehensive of RAF control
in India. (CM-IN, Java to AGWAR, # 2 ,
2 0 Feb. 1942; CM-IN-72, ABDACOM to
A G W A R , # 4 p , 21 Feb. 1942; CM-OUT,
Arnold to Brereton, #AF 2/473, 26 Feb.
1942; minutes of second meeting of the
Administrative Planning Comm., as cited
in n. 39; memo for C/S by AAF Hq.,
20 Feb. 1942; ltr., Arnold to Haynes, 21
Feb. 1942; ltr., Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942.)
59. CM-l'N-7661, Stilwell to AG-
WAR, #AMMISCA 610, 29 Apr. 1942;
53. CM-IN-2821, AMMISCA to AG-

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