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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
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
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