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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 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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