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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 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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