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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. 303 …of Naval Opera- tions; Adm. Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. George…
  • p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you know, is not only Chief…
  • p. 493 …Admiral King believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who were currently…
  • p. 526 …Hence Admiral King placed a bid for suffi- 461
  • p. 527 …t this stage of the war Admiral King had accepted the belief that his carrier planes…
  • p. 538 …plan by 2 9 June, when Admiral King submitted to the Joint Chiefs a proposal that…
  • p. 607 …type * O n 5 March 1942, Admiral King wrote to General Arnold as follows: “The experience…
  • p. 608 …s.’l A formal request by Admiral King to the Chief of the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 609 …In a letter of 9 March 1942 to Admiral King, he proposed “the estab- lishment of…
  • p. 614 …In June, Admiral King expressed the official Navy position on this point with the utmost clarity…
  • p. 615 …In a memorandum to Admiral King, General McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff, on 26 May outlined…
  • p. 616 …viewed as a temporary deta~hment.?~ Admiral King’s reaction to these cautious proposals was expressed…
  • p. 618 …the same words as used by Admiral King a month earlier: the answer to the antisubmarine…
  • p. 621 …On 14 September, General Marshall wrote to Admiral King: “Experience with the First Bomber Command in…
  • p. 622 …T o General Marshall’s proposal of 14 September, Admiral King had replied that, although he…
  • p. 641 …54 A week later General Marshall, Admiral King, Harry Hopkins, and a small staff flew to…
  • p. 645 …that scheduled to operate from the United King- dom. Dry topic or no, organization must figure…
  • p. 684 …the principal air task in the United King- dom had long been conceived as strategic bombardment…
  • p. 707 …establishment of base depots in the United King- dom became the basis of action in January…
  • p. 724 …Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King- dom was the belief…
  • p. 788 …Force, Pt. I ; Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, First Official Report to the Secretary of the…
  • p. 793 …Memo for Adm, King from C/S, 17 Mar. 1 % ~ . 34. JPS 2I/j/D, 7…
  • p. 795 …4 Aug. 1942. 108. Zbid. 109. Adm. King’s Report on Battle of Midway, incl. in…
  • p. 797 …306, 29 June 1942; memos for Adm. King from Mar- shall, 26 June 1942, and for…
  • p. 802 …1942; CM-IN-0629, Chung- king to AGWAR, # # z , 3 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen. Arnold…
  • p. 805 …Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942. certain evidence from all Allied and enemy sources…
  • p. 806 …Memo for King from McNarney, 26 May 1942. 7 1 . Ltr., King to Marshall, 10 June…
  • p. 807 …Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept. 1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report; memo for C G…
  • p. 808 …to notes from Mar- shall and Adm. King). 3 2 . A I c m o for…
  • p. 814 …Forces to the United King- dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942. 50. Ltr., Col. H.L…
  • p. 851 …C.E., 48-50 Killin, Pfc, 219 Kilner Board, 1 2 0 Kimbolton, 63 I King…
  • p. 854 …in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also King); controversy over air power vs. battleship…
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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