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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. 386 …More threatening were Rommel’s forces in North Africa, for the very existence of the air…
  • p. 387 …the route over which the Far East Air Force had received its thirty-five heavy bombers…
  • p. 551 …Formerly commander of the Far East Air Force in the Philip- * See above, pp. 396-97…
  • p. 561 …of an air force, depended upon a line of communications extending across the Indian and At…
  • p. 570 …the American air force would be used in the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean area…
  • p. 571 …Accordingly, on 24 May the order committing the Tenth Air Force to operations under RAF supervision…
  • p. 577 …involved in estab- lishing and operating an air force in Asia. The report of the Grady…
  • p. 630 …Policy for Disposition of US and British Air Forces.” l6 This memorandum greatly extended the scope…
  • p. 797 …MacArthur argued that now was a pro- pitious moment to rush forces from the Indian and…
  • p. 819 …5 8 - 6 7 Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung Indianer, a history of VIII FC…
  • p. 850 …See also CBI; Air Forces, Tenth AF. 336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 6 1 0 - 1 8
231. Ltr., Spaatz to Stratemeyer, 14
2 3 2 . Ltr., Brig. Gen. H.S. Hansel1 to
Sept. 1942.
the author, 24 Feb. 1947.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 17
I . AAF Reference History No. 2,
Origins of the Eighth Air Force, p. 191.
2. R&R, A-I to AWPD, 6 Jan. 1942.
3. Ltrs., Arnold to CG AFCC, 8 and
10 Jan. 1942.
4. Ltr., T A G to CG AFCC, 19 Jan.
1942.
5. Memo for AC/S G-3, WDGS
from C/AAF, 20 Jan. 1942.
6. Ltr., Hq. AFCC to C G s First and
Third AF's, 2 3 Jan. 1942.
7. G O 7, Hq. Third AF, I Feb. 1942
(corrected copy); TWX, Hq. Third AF
to CO Savannah Air Base, 29 Jan. 1942.
8. List of Eighth AF Units and Dates
of Arrival in Concentration Area.
9. Ltr., CG AFCC to CG Eighth AF,
3 1 Jan. 1942.
10. Ltr., Col. Asa N. Duncan, CO
Eighth AF to C/AAF, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
1 1 . Memo for C/AS from Col.
Harold L. George, AWPD, 2 5 Feb. 1942.
12. CCS 5 / z , 3 Mar. 1942.
1 3 . Ltr., Hq. Eighth AF to CO VIIl
FC, 19 Feb. 1942.
14. Ltr., CG Eighth AF to CG Third
AF, 27 Mar. 1942.
1 5 . Ltr., Dir. of War Organization
and Movement to CG Eighth AF, 3 1
Mar. 1942.
16. R&R, A-3 to AWPD, 27 Feb.
1942, and AWPD to A-3, 28 Feb. 1942.
17. R&R, Items of Interest from
Special File 706, 3 1 Mar. 1942; ltr., Hq.
AAF to CG's First, Second, Third,
Fourth, Eighth AF's, 4 Apr. 1942.
18. See source in n. 14.
19. Ltr., Hq. AAF to CG Third AF,
20. Memo for Gen. Kuter from
21. Ltr., Eisenhower, OPD to AGO,
18 Apr. 1942.
Spaatz, 1 5 Apr. 1942.
23 Apr. 1942.
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22. G O I, Hq. Eighth AF (Bolling
Field), 5 May 1942.
23. See diaries and journals of CG,
C/S, and staff sections of Eighth AF for
the period.
24. G O 15, Hq. Eighth AF (Bolling
Field), 28 Apr. 1942.
25. G O 28, Hq. AAB, Bolling Field,
26. Ltrs., AGO to CG Eighth AF, 1 5
and 27 May 1942; GO 32, Hq. Eighth
AF, 18 Sept. 1942.
27. A-I Diary, Hq. Eighth AF (Bol-
ling Field), passim; memo for Col.
Harold A. McGinnis, CO VIII AFSC
from Col. A.J. Lyon, 2 May 1942; ltr.,
Col. McGinnis to Eaker, 5 June 1942.
See also diaries of CG, C/S, and staff
sections of Eighth AF for period,
28. Training Memo 3, Hq. ETOUSA,
1 5 Sept. 1942; Memo 50-3, Hq. VIH
AFSC, 19 Sept. 1942; memo for all staff
sections and departments from Hq.
Eighth AF, 26 Sept. 1942; R&R, Strate-
meyer, C/AS to AC/AS, A-I, 14 Oct.
1942; ltr., Stratemeyer to Eisenhower, 24
29. Interview with Col. N.P. Beville,
Directorate of Personnel, Hq. USSTAF
by Capt. S.H. Stackpole, 1 1 Feb. 1944;
History, Engineer Sec., Eighth AF and
VIII AFSC, 2 3 Apr.-31 Dec. 1942, p. 2;
see also diaries of CG, C/S, and staff
sections of Eighth AF for May and June
1942.
30. Memo for CG Eighth AF from
Col. N. Longfellow, CO VIII BC, 1 5
Apr. 1942; memo, Presentation by Gen.
Spaatz or Lt. Col. Leon W. Johnson, 9
May 1942.
3 I . Eighth AF Extract Diary (Bolling
Field), 2 1 Apr. 1942; memo for Gen.
Spaatz from Lt. Col. J.K. Gerhart, 25
Apr. 1942.
4 July 1942.
OCt. 1942.
32. VIII BC Diary, 11-12 May 1942.
3 3 . Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
34. Ltr., Arnold to Eaker, 3 1 Jan.
35. Diary of Brig. Gen. Eaker, 20 Feb.
36. G O 5, Hq. USAFBI, ZL Feb. 1942.
1942.
1942.
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