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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 1 5 - 2 8
NOTES TO CHAPTER 15
I . AAFAC A4onthly Bulletin, passim.
2 . History, First Air Force, 111, Pt. 10,
7-10; ltr., Maj. Gen. G.C. Brant to Gen.
Arnold, 30 Oct. 1941; ltr., Arnold to
Brant, 27 Nov. 1941; ltr., Adm. Harold
R. Stark to C/S US. Army, 8 Nov. 1941.
3. Office of Naval Intelligence, The
Conduct of the War at Sea, 1 5 Jan. 1946.
This is a translation of an essay by Adm.
Karl Doenitz.
4. Excerpts from Eastern Sea Frontier
W a r Diary, Dec. 1941, Tab I H, in Three
Historical Essays Relating to Army Anti-
submarine Activities (hereinafter cited as
Three Essays), 26 Apr. 1944; Report by
blaj. A. Standish to Secretary of War
for Air, I Dec. 1943, p. 3 . Figures are
taken from US. Fleet Antisubmarine
Bulletin, June 1943, but cf. Standish re-
port, p. 5 . See also memo for CG
AAFAC from Maj. W. Jackson, Asst.
A-2, AAFAC, 7 Mar. 1943, Tab 11, in
Three Essays.
5 . See especially plan attached to
memo for C G AAF from Col. Lyon and
Col. Williamson, 2 7 Feb. 1943; AAFAC
Liaison Office, Proposed Reorganization
of ASW Forces, 2 1 Jan. 1943; Edward L.
Bowles, The Acute Problem of Ocean-
borne Transport and Supply, special re-
port for S/W, I Mar. 1943. The subject
will be discussed in Volume I1 of this
history.
6. Reference data attached to memo
for Marshall from Arnold, 2 1 Feb. 1942,
in Plans file 111-B, Bk. I . Reference is
here made to Act of 5 June 1920 (41
Stat. 954) as amended by Sec. I , Act of
z July 1923 (44 Stat. 780).
7. Joint Action of the Army and
Navy, I I Sept. 1935.
8. See correspondence in Plans file
111-R,Bk. I under dates November and
December 1941 for discussion of pro-
posed revision of Joint Action and
RAINBOW No. 5.
9. History, I Bomber Command; file
of corresDondence and orders concern-
Dec. 1941, Tab I A, in Three Essays. Cf.
Standish report, p. 3.
I I . Standish report, p. 6. The convoy
system was inaugurated formally on 15
May 1942. (Digest of ESF War Diary,
Tab I N , in Three Essays.)
1 2 . ESF War Diary, Dec. 1941 and
Jan. 1942, quoted in Tab IB, D, and E,
Three Essays; ltr., Comdr. NANCF to
COMINCH, 14 Jan. 1942, Tab I C , in
Three Essays.
1 3 . Col. D.R. Lyon, History and
Organization of the Army Air Forces
Anti-Submarine Command, n.d.; AAFAC
A4onthly Antisubmarine Summary, Jan.
1943, p. 3 2 . According to this account,
the squadrons principally involved were
the zoth, 43d, and 96th Bombardment
squadrons.
14. When activated on 5 September
1941, the I Bomber Command consisted
of a headquarters squadron, three heavy
and one medium bombardment groups, a
similar number of reconnaissance squa-
drons, and a single pursuit group. (Lyon
history.)
15. Ltr., Comdr. NANCF to COM-
INCH, 14 Jan. 1942, Tab I C ; ESF War
Diary, Tabs I F and I G , in Three Essays.
16. Lyon history; Standish report,
p. 2 .
1 7 . Ltr., Hq. I BC to CG First Air
Force, 14 Jan. 1942; Col. C.A. McHenry,
The Antisubmarine Command of the
Army Air Forces, 1 3 Oct. 1943, prepared
for release in the Army and Navy
Journal.
18. Draft history, I BC. Cf. AAFAC
file I I I .o and list prepared by historian,
I BC.
19. AAFAC Historical Report on
Training.
to. Draft history, I BC.
2 1 . Jbid.; report by W / C O.F. Can-
ning, RAF to Capt. J.T.G. Stapler, USN,
Col. H.D. Smith, First AF, and Lt. Col.
R.B. Williamson, I BC, 17 Feb. 1942. See
also file 115.51.
ing Ioo-Aile limit, in special file of Brig.
Gen. Frederic H. Smith, Jr.
Naval Coastal Frontier to C/NO, 2 2 24. See sources in n. 23; also AAF
2 2 . Standish report.
10. Ltr., Corn&. North Atlantic 2 3 * draft history* I BC’
7 2 9

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