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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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May 1942 (in reply to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for Eisenhower from Arnold, I Z Alay I T + ? ; Memo for the Record, 18 M a y 1942, in WP-I-General $2. 33. CCS 6r/D, 9 Apr. 1942; draft nisg., FDR to Pill, n.d.; JCS 14th Mtg., I I May 1942. 34. History, Eighth Air Force, I, 5 2 . 35. Arnold-Portal Conversations, 1st Mtg., 26 Alay 1942, quoted in History, Eighth Air Force, I, 53. 36. 1biJ. 37. VIII Bomber Command Diary, 26 May 1942. 38. History, Eighth Air Force, I, 53-54. 39. Ltr., Portal to Arnold, 3 1 Rlay 1942; memo for Arnold from Portal, 31 R4ay 1942. 40. Mcmoranduin of Agrccnient be- tween Lt. Gen. Arnold, Rear Adm. Towers and Air Chicf Marshal Portal, 2 1 June 1942. 41. CCS 30th Altg., z July 1942. 42. History, Eighth Air Force, 1, 71. 43. Events Leading zip to W o r l d W a r I!, H. Doc. 541 (78th Cong., zd sess.), p. 334. 44. CCS 27th Mtg., 19 June 1942. 45. lbid. 46. CCS MFI $14, 19 June 1942. 47. CCS 83, 2 1 June 1942. 48. Ltr., Brig. Gen. Asa N. Duncan to Spaatz, 2 3 June 1942, quoted in His- tory, Eighth Air Force, I, 73. 49. CCS 83/1, 24 June 1941. 50. CCS 29th Mtg.; JCS zzd Mtg., 30 June 1942. 51. So Air Chief Marshal Sir Chris- topher Courtncy infonned Spaatz. (Con- ference Notes, 2 3 June 1942. Cf. CM, Air Ministry for RAFDEL [Portal for Arnold], 26 June; H.C. Butcher, M y T h r e e Years w i t h Eisenhower [New York, 19461, p. 1 1 . ) 5 2 . Msg. of 8 July discussed in JCS 24th Mtg., I D July 1942. 53. JCS 24th Mtg. N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 6 6 - 7 8 54. lbid. 55. Butcher, op. cit., pp. 24-29. 56. CCS 94, 24 July 1942. 57. CCS ;zd Altg., 24 July 1942. 58. Butcher, op. cit., p. 32; CCS 94. 59. CCS 34th Mtg., 3 0 July 1942. 60. Butcher, op. cit., p. 45. 61. CCS 94. 62. C.O.S. (42) z3d Mtg. (01,9 Apr. 1942; Butcher, op. cit., p. 29; CCS 94. 63. CCS j 2 J Mtg., 24 July 1942. 64. Ibid.; CCS 94. 65. Butchcr, op. cit., p. 37 (31 July 1942). 66. CCS 91, 7 July 1942. 67. ccs 94. 68. Memo for McNarney from Arnold, Availability of B-17’s for Imme- diate Departure to SUMAC, zo July 1942. 69. CCS 32d Mtg. 70. Ltr., Spaatz to Arnold, quoted in 71. Ltr., Stratemcyer to Spaatz, 24 72. ccs 37th hltg. 73. H.H. Arnold and Ira C. Eaker, r v i v g e d Warfare (New York, I941), p. I-Iistory, Eighth Air Force, 1, 77. Aug. 1942, ibid. 104. 74. ABC-I, Annex 111, par. 5 2 . 75. Ltr., Brig. Gen. 1H.J. Maloney to Alaj. Gcn. J.E. Chancy, 1 0 Scpt. 1941. 76. RAINBOW No. 5, Operations Plan, SCC.VII, par. 2 % . 77. ABC-I, par. 14 and Anncs 1. 78. History, VIII Air Force Scrvicc Comniand. 79. Chaney’s report was datcd I j De- cernbcr 1940. (History, Special Observer Group [SPOBS] Prior to the Activation of the ETO.) 80. Secret orders datcd z6 Apr. 1941, ibid.,p. 14. 81. GO I , I-Iq. SPOBS, 19 May 1941. 82. History, SPOBS, pp. 14 ff. 83. Ibid., pp. 75-99. 84. Ibid. 85. Ibid. 86. A brief account of these projects 7 3 3
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