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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 5 2 - 6 6 because it tallies neither with I Bomber Command assessments nor with those made by COMINCH. 82. Memo for S/W from Bowles, 7 Aug. 1942. 83. Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G AAF from McNarney, 7.2 Sept. 1942, Tab XIV C, in Bowles report. 84. GO 84, First AF, 15 Oct. 1942; memo by Maj. F. E. Bauer, zo Nov. 1942; ltr., Col. F. C. Milner to C G AAFAC, 2 8 Dec. 1942; memo by Milner, 2 8 Dec. 1942; ltr., Mai. Gen. G.E. Strate- meyer to Air Marshal L.S. Breadner, RCAF, 9 June 1943; all correspondence in AAFAC files 2 1 1 , 2 1 1 . 1 , 2 1 2 . 85. JCS 38th Mtg., 20 Oct. 1942; notes on JCS 38th Mtg., attached to JCS 93/1. I. 2. 7. NOTES TO CHAPTER 16 ABC-I, 2 7 Mar. 1941, par. 13. JCCSS-I, 24 Dec. 1941. ABC-4/6, 10 Jan. 1942; JCCSS-11, 13 Jan. 1942. 4. ABC-I: 32 squadrons of bombers and fighters, more in 1942. RAINBOW No. 5 , Concentration Plan (approved 19 August 1941): 3 groups HR, I group MB for England: z groups of pursuits for Northern Ireland, I for Scotland. RAIN- BOW No. 5 , Basic Plan, Revision No. I , 19 November 1941: 3 groups HB, z groups MB, 3 groups of pursuits for the British Isles. 5 . Memo for AC/S, WPD, Revision of Joint Army and Navy Basic W a r Plan, 31 Oct. 1941. 6. JCCSs-I. 7. R&R, Arnold to Spaatz, Conversa- tion with Portal, I Jan. 1942; ltr., Arnold to Portal, z Jan. 1942. 8. Memo for AC/S, W P D from AC/AS, A-3, Air Corps Garrison Desig- nated as BR, 5 Jan. 1942. 9. Memo for AAG from AC/AS, A-3, Priority and Organization of Task Forces, 15 Jan. 1942. 10. CCS zd Mtg., 27 Jan. 1942. 11. CCS 40, 16 Feb. 1942; draft memo 7 3 2 for C/AAF, Plan to Move z HB Groups, n.d. 12. VIl’I Bomber Command Diary, 4 Feb. 1942. 1 3 . In the memo cited in note 8 above, the 29th and 44th Bombardment groups (H) were designated for BR. 14. Ltr., Portal to Arnold, 14 Jan. ‘942. 15. Ltr., Arnold to Portal, 14 Jan. ‘942. 16. CCS 47, 2 2 Feb. 1942. 17. CCS 56, 5 Mar. 1942. 18. Memo for Col. Craig from E.E.P. [artridgel, Conference, 6 Mar. 1942; CCS y6/1, 6 Mar. r g q . 19. Memo for C/AAF from D.D. Eisenhower, AC/S, Establishment of USAAF in the UK, 4 Mar. 1942. 20. Memo for the C/S, Air Support of a Continental Invasion from the Brit- ish Isles (to accompany W P D App., Sec. V of Plan for Operations in N.W. Europe, Mar. 2 7 , 1942), 30 Mar. 1942. 2 1 . CPS 26/1, 3 Apr. 1942. 22. C.O.S. (42) r3d Mtg. ( O ) , War Cabinet Chiefs of Staff Committee, part of C.O.S. (42) 112th Mtg., 9 Apr. 1942. 23. Ibid. 24. C.O.S. (42) 97 (O), 13 Apr. 1942; C.O.S. (42) 118th Mtg., 14 Apr. 1942. The substance of these papers is con- tained in CM-2400, Amembassy to MILID, 14 Apr. 1942. 2 5 . CM-70, “Former Naval Person” to President, 17 Apr. 1942. 26. CPS 26/2/D, 28 Apr. 1942. 27. C.O.S. (42) 23d Mtg., 9 Apr. 1942; ltr., Eaker to CG USAFIB, 26 Apr. 1942. 28. File 706, 15 May 1942. 29. Memo for Adm. Stark from Arnold, 2 3 Apr. 1942. 3 0 . Memo for Arnold from AC/AS, Plans, British Offer to Equip with Spit- fires our Pursuit Units going to Great Britain, 22 Apr. 1942; CCS 69, 4 May 1942. The Air Staff did not favor this proposal. 31. Memo for Marshall from FDR, 6
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