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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 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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