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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 0 7 - 1 3
74. CM-IN-2672, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 239, I O Apr. 1942; CM-
OUT, Marshall to Brereton, #136, 10
Apr. 1942.
75. Bissell interview; CM-IN-4990,
Brereton to Arnold, #393, 19 Apr. 1942.
76. CM-OUT-195, Arnold to Stil-
well, #AAF PC 631, ZI Apr. 1942.
77. History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand.
78. See AAF Historical Study No. 12,
The Tenth Air Force, 1942, App. 2 .
79. History, 3d Air Depot, 1942.
80. History, 59th Service Sq.; His-
tory, Hq. X Air Force Service Com-
mand, including ltrs., Brereton to Air
Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, I May 1942,
and Peirse to Brereton, 17 May 1942.
81. History, Hq. X Air Force Service
Command.
82. Ltr., Brereton to Peirse, I May
1942.
83. A-2 Summary File, 27 May 1942;
CM-IN-8353, Aquila to AGWAR,
#1407, 29 May 1942.
84. A--2 Summary File, 30 May 1942;
CM-IN-86go, Aquila to AGWAR,
#1476, 30 May 1942.
85. General Brereton was probably
exaggerating when he stated that all the
heavy bombers were out of commission,
for when orders came for him to take
them to the Middle East most of the
planes were flown out. They were cer-
tainly not in first-class combat condition,
but at least a few must have been flyable
when Brereton's report was sent. (CM-
IN-2696, Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila
1755, 9 June 1942; CM-IN-4475, Brere-
ton to AGWAR, #Aquila 1922, 14 June
1942; CM-IN-6689, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 2172, 21 June 1942.)
86. A-2 Summary File, I June 1942;
CM-IN-0298, Aquila to AGWAR, #1508,
I June 1942.
87. A-2 Summary File, 7 June 1942;
History, 436th Bomb. Sq.
88. Mil. Intel, Service, WDGS, War
Department Survey of India (hereinafter
cited as War Department Survey), 15
July 19439 P- 169.
89. Grady report, as cited in n. 32;
7 2 8
CM-FN-5206, Wheeler to Somervell,
#1965, 16 June 1942; CM-OUT-Z~S,
AFAFC to Aquila, #AAF PC 869, 26
Apr. 1942; CM-IN-6937, Osmun to
MILID, #38o, 20 July 1942.
90. Grady report; W a r Department
Survey; interview with Maj. Marvin
Morton, 16 Nov. 1943; Research and
Analysis Br., OSS, Strategic Survey of
Northeastern India, 19 Jan. 1943; British
Empire Sec. Report No. 3, Road Trans-
port from Western India to Calcutta and
Assam, 9 Mar. 1942.
91. Grady report; War Department
Survey; Hq. US. Air Forces in India
and China, Tenth AF, India, Intel. Ex-
tracts.
92. Grady report.
93. Morton interview; ltr., Brereton
to Arnold, 6 Mar. 1942; CM-IN-2569,
Naiden to AGWAR, #Aquila 2 8 0 2 , 8
July 1942; minutes of third meeting of
Administrative Planning Comm. held at
Air Hq. (Delhi), 30 Mar. 1942.
94. Minutes of Administrative Plan-
ning Conference held a t Air Hq.
(Delhi), 15 Mar. 1942; memo for C/AS
from Lt. Col. H.A. Halverson, 20 Jan.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#AMSEG 516, 2 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT,
Arnold to Brereton, #AF 3/89, 5 Mar.
1942; memo for Chief, W P D from
Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942.
95. War Department Survey; Grady
report; New York Times, 10 Nov. 1943;
CM-IN-3907, Osmun to MILID, 8130,
1 2 May 1942.
96. CM-IN-7202, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 2112, 2 2 June 1942.
97. CCS 39/1, 14 Mar. 1942.
98. CM-OUT-5700, Marshall to Bre-
reton, #618, 23 June 1942.
99. CM-OUT-4614, Marshall to Bre-
reton, #584, 19 June 1942; CM-OUT-
6568, Arnold to Brereton, #648, 26 June
1942; CM-OUT-zz79, Arnold to Stilwell,
862, 9 July 1942.
100. CM-IN-8133, Brereton to Mar-
101. History, 9th Bomb. Sg., 1942.
102. CM-l'N-05887, Bissell to AG-
shall, #Aquila 2319, 25 June 1942.
WAR, #Aquila 5935, 14 Oct. 1942.

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