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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 0 4 - 7
WAR, $442, 3 Apr. 1942; minutes of
Administrative Planning Conference held
at Air Hq. (Delhi), 1 5 Mar. 1942, in
Ninth AF, Papers Relating to the USA-
AF in India, 1942; CM-IN-5611, AM-
MISCA to AGWAR, $831, 8 June 1942;
CM-IN-7824, Stilwell to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 73, 28 May 1942.
68. Ltr., Brereton to Arnold, 24 June
1942; CM-IN-$194, Bissell to AGWAR,
sgd. Stilwell, #AMMISCA 707, 19 May
1942; interview with Lt. Col. John Al-
lison, 3 July 1943; interview with Noel
R. Bacon, 2 2 Apr. 1942; interview with
Maj. A.J. Baumler, 24 Mar. 1943; talk by
Col. M.C. Cooper in Gen. Johnson's Staff
Meeting, 2 3 Dec. 1942, sgd. by Maj. H.C.
Lint; interview with Maj. Marvin Mor-
ton, 16 Nov. 1943; talk by Col. E.C.
MacMorland, Ord. Dept., 1 2 Feb. 1943;
interview with Col. Homer L. Sanders,
June 1943; New York Times, 27 and 2 8
June 1942.
69. History, 341st Bomb. Gp., 1942-
43; History, 11th Bomb. Sq., 4 May
1942-31 May 1943; History, India-China
Ferry Command.
70. Histories, China Air Task Force,
341st Bomb. Gp., and 11th Bomb. Sq.
71. SO 64, Hq. American Army
Forces, China, Burma, and India, in His-
tory, USAAF India-Burma Sector,
China-Burma-India Theater; unrecorded
interviews by author with Col. C.A.
Snow, 12 May 1944, and Maj. Gen. Clay-
ton L. Bissell, 19 May 1944; Sanders
interview; notes taken during conference
between Cols. Robinson, Wyman,
Pope, 14 July 1942, at Chungking, in
History, USAAF hdia-Burma Sector;
interview with George L. Paxton, 2 8
Aug. 1942; interview with Albert E.
Nelson, Bendix rep., 24 June 1943; ltr.,
Arnold to Chennault, 6 Nov. 1942; CM-
IN-1758, Chungking to AGWAR, # 2 5 1 ,
72. Interview with Maj. George Ma:-
Millan, 5 Nov. 1942; interview with Col.
Robert L. Scott, 30 Apr. 1943; New York
Times, 3 Oct. 1942; ON1 Weekly, No.
24, 7 and 8 July 1942; CM-IN-1758,
Mayer to AGWAR, 6 July 1942.
73. R&R, Gen. George, A T C to
ACJAS, OC&R, 14 June 1942.
anq
6 July 1942.
7 2 7
CM-IN-0535, Gruber to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 630, 3 May 1942; CM-IN-
2209, Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 736,
8 May 1942; CM-IN-1295, Stilwell to
AGWAR, #Aquila ZMR NR, 5 May
1942.
60. CM-OUT-~OZZ,Marshall to Stil-
well, #713, 24 May 1942; CM-IN-7037,
Stilwell to Marshall, #AMMISCA N R 61,
25 May 1942.
61. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 89, 17 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-57,
Ulio to Brereton, #AAF RC 165, 20
Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-1676, Marshall to
Brereton, #3z3, 4 May 1942.
62. CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 131, 2 8 Mar. 1 % ~ .
63. President Roosevelt had approved
the induction as early as 18 December
1941, contingent upon approval of the
Generalissimo. (Memo for AS/W John
J. McCloy from Brig. Gen. Gordon P.
Saville, Dir. of Air Defense; CM-IN,
Magruder to AGWAR, #AMMISCA
161, 4 Jan. 1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung-
king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942;
memo for Gen. Arnold from Lt. Col.
H.A. Halverson, 3 Feb. 1942; memo for
AC/S, W P D from AFDMR, 18 Mar.
1942; memo for AFRIT from WPD, 20
Mar. 1942; memo for Maj. Sigourney
from Lt. Col. R.J. Handy, Asst. Chief,
AFPMP, 23 Mar. 1942.)
64. CM-IN-2209, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 736, 8 May 1942; CM-
OUT-2037, Marshall to Aquila, #332, 10
May 1942.
65. CM-IN-5592, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #438, 2 1 Apr. 1942; CM-OUT,
Marshall to Aquila, # n o , 23 Apr. 1942.
66. CM-IN-7824, Sfdwell to AG-
WAR, #AMMBCA 73, 28 May 1942.
Brereton was later told by Marshall that
HALPRO would be assigned to the
Tenth Air Force, but the Chief of Staff
gave no indication as to when the as-
signment would be made. (CM-OUT-
4614, Marshall to Stilwell and Brereton,
67. CM-IN, Magruder to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 161,4 Jan. rgqz; CM-OUT-
0046, Marshall to Brereton, #93, I Apr.
#584, 19 June 1942.)
1942; CM-IN-0629, AMMISCA to AG-

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