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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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