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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.

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“Roosevelt”53 pages

  • p. 5 …Imprint N March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the Director of the Bureau of…
  • p. 138 …1939-4I N 28 January 1938 President Roosevelt declared our national defenses inadequate in the face…
  • p. 141 …changed our requirements for defensive aviation,” President Roosevelt strongly urged that $300,- ooo,ooo be appropriated…
  • p. 153 …When President Roosevelt initiated the move toward re- I 16
  • p. 160 …T h e first step was made public on 3 September 1940 when President Roosevelt revealed…
  • p. 165 …These sentiments were expressed by President Roosevelt in a radio address on 3 September: “This Nation…
  • p. 169 …In an address to Congress on 6 January 1941, President Roosevelt suggested the means; 9 5…
  • p. 170 …O n 9 July 1941, President Roosevelt requested the secretaries of W a r and the…
  • p. 171 …The British had prepared, a t the instigation of President Roosevelt, an estimate of munitions requirements…
  • p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 174 …cent; other nations, 10 per cent.'" President Roosevelt, anxious that as many planes as possible be…
  • p. 185 …President Roosevelt’s request for the report had been motivated wholly by considerations of logistics. But…
  • p. 199 …On 5 July 1941 President Roosevelt, in oral orders to the Army Chief of Staff and…
  • p. 220 …and it carried a threat which President Roosevelt described in terms of the greatest danger faced…
  • p. 258 …conflict between Japan and the U.S. Roosevelt attempt curve our independence stop we all know…
  • p. 273 …President Roosevelt specifically directed that reinforcements should be sent there with all speed, and MacArthur was…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …evening, the British party met with President Roosevelt and his military and civilian advisers a t…
  • p. 297 …O n 3 January President Roosevelt sent Mr. Stimson a list of muni- tions, with a…
  • p. 301 …In his address to the Congress on 6 January, President Roosevelt promised that “we shall not…
  • p. 302 …Ultimate decisions on major military policies were taken by President Roosevelt, as Commander in Chief of…
  • p. 304 …Leahy as personal chief of staff to President Roosevelt in place of Admiral Stark.'* It was…
  • p. 322 …given to the nation by Presi- dent Roosevelt in a radio address on 9 D e…
  • p. 331 …At the end of January, President Roosevelt advised the President of Venezuela that, in deference to…
  • p. 332 …During the course of a fireside report to the nation delivered by President Roosevelt on 2…
  • p. 352 …Secretary Stimson reported to President Roosevelt his conviction that the planes from even one carrier could…
  • p. 366 …raised objections which seemed convincing.8 President Roosevelt decided to adopt the more modest proposal of…
  • p. 370 …Elliott Roosevelt during the summer on an aerial survey of the east coast of Greenland in…
  • p. 400 …Elliott Roosevelt and others failed to locate a suitable site for an airdrome.120A satisfactory site…
  • p. 409 …mobilizing the resources of the airlines, President Roosevelt had signed an executive order on 13 December…
  • p. 465 …for effective resistance in the Philippines, President Roosevelt had decided early in February that the general…
  • p. 480 …the basis of a proposal by President Roosevelt: there would be a separate Southwest Pacific Area…
  • p. 499 …Apparently President Roosevelt himself played a role in initiating the expedition, although it is not possible…
  • p. 553 …Lauchlin Currie had gone to China as economic adviser to President Roosevelt for study of her…
  • p. 630 …in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which the Prime…
  • p. 632 …plan was approved in principle by President Roosevelt, and on 8 April General Marshall and Harry…
  • p. 633 …message of 1 7 April, in- formed Roosevelt of his approval of the design; his sole…
  • p. 635 …A fortnight later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were alarmed by a query from Roosevelt as…
  • p. 640 …in Norway-and they understood that President Roosevelt’s anxiety to get U.S. troops into…
  • p. 641 …On 8 July the Prime Minister informed Roosevelt that conditions favorable to SLEDGE- HAMMER would probably…
  • p. 642 …on the ~ 4 t h . ~ ‘Ap- parently Roosevelt gave his tentative approval in a telephone conver…
  • p. 753 …This book shows the close relations between Roosevelt and the Committee T o Defend America by…
  • p. 755 …Address by President Roosevelt at Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and War, pp. 767-72…
  • p. 756 …Ltr., Roosevelt to Stimson, 18 Sept. 1941,in WP I-General. I I I . Release of…
  • p. 774 …Memo for Roosevelt from Stim- son, 14 Mar. 1942. 163. lbid. 164. History, Sixth Air Force…
  • p. 776 …Elliott Roosevelt, zIst Recon. Sq. to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941; memo for Col. Olds from Capt…
  • p. 779 …Elliott Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic Bridge, pp. 27-29. 117. Ltr., Sec. of…
  • p. 780 …Elliott Roosevelt to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941 (Report # 3 ) ; ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt to…
  • p. 782 …Memo for S / W from President Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321. 199. On the…
  • p. 790 …Mills to TAG, Mac- Arthur for Roosevelt, 11 Feb. 1942; msg. #5, Australia to Marshall, 2…
  • p. 802 …President Roosevelt had approved the induction as early as 18 December 1941, contingent upon approval of…
  • p. 857 …See also Coolidge; Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson. Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment…
  • p. 858 …Erwin, 330, 339-41, 512 Roosevelt, Capt. Elliott, 3 18, 344 Roosevelt, Pres. F.D., 101…
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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