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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. 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…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 8 5 - 9 3
137. CCS 75, 5 June 1942.
138. JCS, 19th Mtg., 9 June 1942.
139. CCS 24th Mtg., 10 June; JCS
20th Mtg., 15 June; CCS 25th Mtg., 16
June; JCS zist Mtg., 23 June; CCS 30th
Mtg., z July; JCS 29th Mtg., 18 Aug.
‘942.
140. CM-OUT-1697 (6-5-42), Mar-
shall to USFOR, W D 1 1 2 0 , 8 June 1942.
141. Memo for Eisenhower from
Arnold; Itrs., Arnold to Chaney, to Lee,
and to Hartle, all dated 10 June 1942.
142. CM-IN-6792 (6-21-42), London
to AGWAR, 2 2 3 8 , 2 1 June 1942.
143. R&R, Directive for General
Spaatz as CG of Eighth Air Force,
AFDAS to AFAEP, 1 7 June 1942; memo
for Spaatz from Arnold, zo June 1942.
144. Memo for Eisenhower from Mar-
shall, Lerter of Instruction, 20 June 1942.
145. Ltr., Eisenhower to CG Eighth
AF, 2 1 July 1942.
146. Ltr., Spaatz to C G ETOUSA,
1 2 Aug. 1942.
147. Ltr., Arnold to Spaatz, 30 July
‘942-
148. Ltr., Spaatz to CG ETOUSA, 14
Aug. 1942; G O 29, Hq. ETOUSA, 2 1
149. CM-OUT-j76 ( z - z I - ~ ~ ) ,Arnold
to Chaney, AF 2/353, 2 1 Feb. 1942.
1 5 0 . Ltr., Harris to Eaker, 3 1 J”ly
‘942.
1 5 1 . ABC-I, par. 12.
152. Liddell Hart, The Defence of
Britain (New York, 1939).
153. Speech on the War Situation
delivered to the House of Commons on
2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed.,
Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5 3 .
154. General Strategy Review by the
British Chiefs of Staff, 3 1 July 1941,
par. 29.
1 5 5 . Quoted in Report [informall by
Lt. Col. G. DeF. Larner, 2 8 Apr. 1942.
156. General Strategy, as cited in n.
157. Serial 236, Employrnent by the
US. Navy of Aircraft Engaged in Op:
erations over the Sea, [British] Naval
A u ~ .1942.
‘54. par. 3637.
7 3 5
118. Ltr., Eaker to Asa N. Duncan,
10 May 1942.
119. CM-667, London to AGWAR,
27 Feb. 1942.
120. Memo for C/S USAAF in British
Isles from Arnold, 26 Feb. 1942.
1 2 1 . Memo for C/AAF from Eisen-
hower, Establishment of USAAF in the
UK, 4 Mar. 1942.
122. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
C/AAF, Establishment of USAAF in the
UK, I I Mar. 1942. A buck slip attached
to this memo, dated 6 March, carries this
penciled note from “HHA”: “In view
of activities yesterday, I think this action
to be OK for the present.”
123. Ltr., Arnold to Eaker, 5 Mar.
‘942.
124. Ltr., Marshall to CG USAFBI,
19 Mar. 1942.
125. CM-875, London to AGWAR,
24 Mar. 1942.
126. cM-150, Marshall to Chaney, 30
Mar. 1942.
127. CM-OUT-1181 (4-8-42), Mar-
shall to USFOR, W D 2 3 5 , 7 Apr. 1942.
1 2 8 . CM-OUT-2 141 (4-1z-42), Arnold
to Marshall, USFOR Rzgo, I I Apr. 1942.
129. CM-1261, Chaney to AGWAR,
24 Apr. 1942.
130. CM-1342, Chaney to AGWAR,
I May 1942; CM-IN+q87 (j-2-42),
Chaney to AGWAR, 1363, z May 1942.
1 3 1 , CM-IN-26gg ( ~ - I o - ~ z ) ,London
to AGWAR, 1474, I D May 1942.
1 3 2 . G O I , Hq. Eighth AF (Bolling
Field), 5 May 1942.
1 3 3 . Progress Report of VIII Air
Support Command, I Z May 1943.
134. Memo for CG AAF from Spaatz,
Organization of US Forces in the British
Isles with Particular Reference to the
Relationship of the Eighth Air Force to
the RAF, n.d.
1 3 5 . Memo for Eisenhower from Har-
mon, Organization of the US Forces in
the British Isles, 25 May 1942.
136. Memo for AC/S, OPD from Col.
J.E. Hull, European Sec., Theater Gp.,
OPD, Organization of US Forces in
British Isles, 4 June 1942.

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