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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 2 8 - 4 0 Historical Study No. 19, Civilian Volun- teer Activities in the AAF. 2s. Joint Action, chap. ii, par. 8 (a) and (b); msg., COMINCH and C/S to C G EDC, 2 s Mar. 1942; ltr., C G EDC to Comdr. ESF, 28 Mar. 1942. 26. Ltr., Brig. Gen. Westside T. Lar- son to Gen. Bradley, 19 Mar. 1942. Cf. draft history, I BC. 27. See sources in n. 4. 28. Correspondence in AAFAC file, Gulf Task Force Organization. See espe- cially, ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. W.H. Frank, 3 1 May 1942; ltr., Bradley to C G I BC, 26 May 1942; ltr., T A G to CGS, Southern Defense Command and Third AF, 3 July 1942; ltr., Hq. Gulf Task Force to The Air Inspector, 2 Oct. 1942. 29, See sources in n. 28; also ltr., Hq. Third AF to C G AAF, 8 June 1942. Cf. History, Third Air Force, Defense Ac- tivities, 1941-44, p. 36. 30. Assessment of Attacks, in AAFAC file 557. See also n. 38 below. 3 1 . Ltr., Hq. Advance Echelon, I BC to all tactical comdrs., 19 Jan. 1942, in AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Opera- tions, Procedure. See also other cor- respondence in same file. 32. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Operations, Procedure. 33. Ibid., passim. 34. Ibid., passim; Information Bulletin 35. Ltr., Comdr. ESF to all task group 36. Three Essays, Tab I N. 37. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Operations, Convoy Escort. See espe- cially, ltr., Hq. Seventh Naval Dist. to AS/W for Air, 1 3 May 1942; ltr., Hq. I BC to C G s EDC and First AF, 29 May 1942. 38. Standish report; AAFAC file 557 (the assessments herein contained have been checked with those printed in US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin to Dec. 13, Hq. I BC, 3 1 July 1942. comdrs., 24 Sept. 1942. . . ~~~~. 1944). Authority for the “kill” of 7 July comes from C/NO, German, Japanese, and Italian Submarine Losses, World W a r 11, which is a final summary of all I 5 Jan. 1942. 55- lbid. 56. Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources. 39. Standish report. See also charts in AAFAC hlonthly Intel. Sum., Nov. 1942, 40. Standish report; Antisubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group Mcmo 2 0 , Analysis of US. Aircraft At- tacks on U/Boats, 7 Dec. 1942, p. 4. In this connection it should be noted that several attacks reported by I Bomber Command are not included here and that of the total attacks listed, half, or a significantly larger proportion, of radar contacts were made by Army planes. 41. Doenitz, The Conduct of the War at Sea. 42. Estimated at 859,000 tons for No- vember as compared with 575,886 for October. Monthly Intel. Sum., Nov. and Dec. 1942. pp. 8-9. 43. History, First Air Force. 44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8 May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p. 569; memo for C G Field Forces from Deputy C/S US. Army, 19 Feb. 1942. 45. History, Sixth Air Force, Mar. 19q-May f943, pp. I 18ff.; History, Caribbean Air Force, p. 463. 46. US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin, 47. Report, Col. R.H. Wooten to C G Field Forces, 1 2 Feb. 1943, in History, Sixth Air Force, March 1942-May 1943; Statistical Control, Caribbean data file, Dec. 1941-Dec. 1943. 48. Memo, Office of A-2, Hq. Antilles Air Command, 3 0 Nov. 1944; US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin, June 1943. 49. Standish report; History, 1st Sea Search Attack Gp. so. Standish report. 51. Memo for Arnold from AC/AS, AWPD, 1 5 Jan. 1942. 5 2 . Memo for Arnold from Rear Adm. J.H. Towers, 14 Feb. 1942. 53. lbid. ~ 4 .Memo for Arnold from AC/AS, June 1943. 7 3 0
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