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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 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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