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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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“The Invaders”15 pages

  • p. 125 …an invading army. For that job they were well equipped, trained, and organized. Though the Luftwaff…
  • p. 127 …For the first time, German parachute troops were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland…
  • p. 131 …equipment for moving an invading force across the intervening waters. The army itself, caught unprepared, required…
  • p. 134 …By the first of June the British had been forced to yield Crete to the invaders…
  • p. 183 …Nevertheless, a land army should be prepared to invade the continent and Germany itself. T h…
  • p. 246 …this effort." Apparently the course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized…
  • p. 263 …tanks, but they too “strafed and restrafed the invaders.” As Lt. Samuel H. Marrett, squadron commander…
  • p. 461 …the invading forces was merely preliminary to the bringing in of bombers in preparation for the…
  • p. 493 …Its nickel and chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King believed that the…
  • p. 522 …after the action; not until the war ended and the teams of interrogators invaded Japan was…
  • p. 529 …There was no intention of invading the Alaskan mainland, or even Dutch Harbor; the objective was…
  • p. 535 …Four of the most efficient carriers had gone down, carrying with them the hopes of Admiral…
  • p. 559 …the latter presented the more immediate need for reinforcement. Tavoy had fallen to Japanese invaders as…
  • p. 630 …The Netherlands East Indies and Burma, already invaded, were doomed. T h e Indian Ocean was…
  • p. 633 …to the preliminary strategic bombardment and only modestly to direct support of the invading force. A…
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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