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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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N O T E S T O P A G E S 5 9 3 - 6 0 1 Attach6 for Air to SPENAVO, 30 Sept. ‘941. 158. CM-1965 (2-15-42), MA, Lon- don to Washington. 159. Ltrs., Eaker to Arnold, 14 Apr. 1941; Arnold to Eaker, 9 Aug. 1941. 160. Quoted in Charles Ead,. comp., Winston Churchill’s Secret Session Speeches (New York, 1946), p. 85. 161. Larner report, as in n. 1 5 5 . 162. Note by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris on the Role and Work of Bomber Command, WP (42) 374, 24 Aug. 1942. 163. Ltr., Harris to Arnold, 14 Aug. ’942. 164. lbid. 165. J.B. No. 3 2 5 (Serial 7 q ) , JB to SPENAVO and SPOBS, Comments on General Strategy Review by British Chiefs of Staff, 25 Sept. 1941, par. 9. 166. CM-WW707, AIRWHIT to RAFDEL, personal, C/AS to Harris, 1 2 Feb. 1942; memo for CNO from Comdr. Forest Sherman, British Air Programme, 18 Aug. 1941; CM-216, London to T A G , 6 Dec. 1941; CM-CRO61, SPENAVO to 167. Memo for S / W from R.A. Lovett, AS/W, G-2 Report of Adm. Ghormley’s Estimate of Bombers as Offensive Weapons, 17 Nov. 1941 (re Ghormley’s memo of 14 Nov.). 168. Zbid.; memo for C/AS from AWPD, Comments on Attached Memo re Lessons from British Air Offensive, 18 169. Ltr., Eaker to Chaney, 26 Apr. 170. File 706, 26 June 1942. 171. See message to the effect that bombing was being seriously diverted to the Battle of the Atlantic by order of Churchill and against the judgment of the RAF. (CM, Lee to W D , 18 Apr. 1941.) Cf. WP (42) 374 as cited in note 162 above, in which Harris states that between April 1941 and March 1942 50% of Bomber Command’s operations were against maritime targets. 1 7 2 . General Strategy, par. 3 0 . Cf. British rejoinder to JB comments on same in AL (41) 8th Mtg., W a r Cabinet, C/AC, 29 NOV.1941. NOV.1941. ‘942. 7 36 American Liaison, Z I Nov. 1941, An- nex A. 173. General Strategy, par. 30. 174. Bombers’ Battle, by a Wing Commander (London, 19431, pp. 197- 175. AL (41) 8th Mtg., 2 1 Nov. 1941, 176. Bombers’ Battle, pp. 201-9. 177. H.A. Toulmin, Jr., Air Service, A.E.F., 1918, chap. xv. 178. William Mitchell, Winged De- fense, p. 16; Air Service Tactical School, Bombardment (Washington, 1926), p. 62. 179. ASTS, Bombardment, p. 6; ltr., Follett Bradley to Col. W.J. Paul, 10 180. ASTS, Bombardment, p. 6 2 . 181. Ltr., Brig. Gen. H.S. Hansel1 to author, 24 Feb. 1947. 182. Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of Air Power, p. 151; ASTS, Bombardment, p. 54. 183. Memo for Col. W.J. Paul from Dr. Chauncey E. Sanders, Relationship of the Development of AAF Bombing Doctrine to the Development of the Modern Bombsight, 10 Mar. 1947. 200. Annex A. Apr. ‘947. 184. lbid. 185.Zbid. 186. lbid. 187. AWPD/I, Tab I , par. 5 . 188. lbid. 189. Ibid., par. 6. 190. Zbid., Tab 3 . 191. E.g., Aeroplane, 16 May; I Aug.; 2 2 Aug. 1941. 192. Ltr., Harris to Arnold, z July ‘944.’. 193. Zbid. Cf. CM, London, Harmon to Arnold, I May 1942. 194. Spaatz Staff Meeting, 10 Sept. 1941, Talk by Brandt on Use of B-17 by RAF. 195. CM, Lee to W D , 9 July 1942; CM-57, Chaney to T A G , 2 2 July 1942. 196. Brandt, as in n. 194. Bombers‘ Battle, p. 139, puts this as the first B-17 mission. 197. OCAC, Summary of B-17’s
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