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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.
“Churchill”21 pages
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 7 8 - 8 5 is given in History, SPOBS, chap. i. Something of the importance attached to them in the winter of 1941-42 may be sensed from the great amount of per- tinent correspondence in AAF Hq. files. (For TURBINLFTE see especially, memo for Arnold from C.E. Duncan, S/AS, Plan to Establish and Train il Turbiiilite Squadron [N.F.] in the Brit- ish Isles, 12 Jan. 1942; memo for Arnold from Kuter, DC/AS, z May 1942. The one squadron which was dispatched to England for this purpose was redesig- nated 15th Bombardment Squadron [L] and was the first AAF unit to see action in the ETO. For cancellation of SHADOW 82, see RetR, Establishment of a Shadow Organization in N. Ireland, AFAEP to AFDOP, 2 5 Apr. 1942. On TRIGGER, see especially, ltr., Mc- Narney to Portal, 30 Sept. 1941; AWPD Division Digest, 9 Apr. 1942.) 87. History, SPOBS, chap. ii. 88. Ltr., Ma!. Gen. A.E. Nye, Dir. of Staff Duties, War Office to Chaney, 2 7 Sept. 1941; Chaney to Nye, n.d., but in reply. 89. Ltr., Arnold to Chaney, 8 Nov. 1947. 90. Ltr., Chaney to C/S, Command Arrangements, US Army Forces in Great Britain, 20 Sept. 1941. 91. Ltr., Lt. Col. H.L. George, AWPD to Col. H.L. McClelland, SPOBS, 8 Nov. 1941. 92. Ltr., Chaney to Arnold, 5 Dec. ‘941. 93. Ibid., 1x1. I , Graphic Outline of the Basic Organization of US Forces in Great Britain. 94. Memo for Gen. McNarney from Chaney, 6 Dec. 1941. 95. Letter of Instruction No. 2 , 1 1 Dec. 1941. 96. CM, AGWAR to SPOBS, 8 Jan. 1942. 97. Memo for C G AFCC, etc. from Arnold, Channels of Communications with Gen. Chaney, 2 Feb. 1942. 98. See the many requisitions for staff personnel, of which the following are examples: CM-368, SPOBS to AGWAR, 7 Jan. 1942; CM-429, London to AG- 7 34 WAR, 16 Jan. 1942; CM-465, London to AGWAR, 24 Jan. 1942; CM-92, London to AGWAR, 2 1 Feb. 1942; CM-634, London to AGWAR, 24 Feb. 1942; CM- 726, London to AGWAR, 9 Mar. 1942. 99. History, VIII AFSC, chap. i. 100. Ltr., Eaker to H.L. George, 5 Mar. 1942. 1 0 1 . The chart, Schematic Organiza- tion US. Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom, was indorsed: “Concur for tentative approval. Chart to be referred to General Chaney for remark. Lt. Gen. L.J. McNair.” 1 0 2 . Memo for C/S USAAF in Brit- ish Isles from Arnold as DC/S, 26 Jan. ‘942. 103. Directive for A-I by C/AS, Activation of AAF Units for British Isles, 1 1 Feb. 1942. 104. CM-OUT-399 (1-24-42), Arnold to SPOBS, AF 1/401, 24 Jan. 1942. 10s. CM-465, London to AGWAR, 24 Jan. 1942; CM-495, London to AG- WAR, 30 Jan. 1942. 106. CM-52, Chaney to GHQ, 3 1 Jan. 1942; memo for A G from C G GHQ, Organization of US Army Forces in the UK, 3 Feb. 1942. 107. CCS 40, 16 Feb. 1942. 108. Ltr., Arnold to Eaker, Initial Directive to Bomber Commander in Eng- land, 31 Jan. 1942. 109. CM-OUT-472 (26-42), C G AAF to SPOBS, AF 2/105, 5 Feb. 1942. 1 1 0 . Details Which Must Be Accom- plished by Bomber Command Advance Echelon, n.d. I I I . Memo for JSP, 24 Feb. 1942. 1 1 2 . C M - O U T - ~ I ~(2-12-42), Arnold 113. CM-634, CM-635, CM-636, all 114. Ltrs., Eaker to George, 5 Mar. 1 1 5 . Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar. 116. lbid. 117. Ltr., Eaker to George, 5 Mar. to SPOBS, AF 2/207, 1 2 Feb. 1942. London to AGWAR, 24 Feb. 1942. 1942; Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar. 1942. 1942. I942 *
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