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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. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to “sweep the Germans from the sky…
  • p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with the ambitious idens of air power which…
  • p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was never equipped during…
  • p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are you in the Army or the Corps…
  • p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
  • p. 69 …But one axiom, with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never- theless left an open question as to how…
  • p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300 aircraft a month. The pattern of…
  • p. 122 …the German Air Force, the Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in the…
  • p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French factories, the force had never been employed in a…
  • p. 140 …into a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands of our own forces…
  • p. 150 …Long-term needs of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities never…
  • p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
  • p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
  • p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never- theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
  • p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
  • p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points have never been satisfactorily explained. T h e general pattern…
  • p. 277 …motors, sole- noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit- less search…
  • p. 288 …planners and from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate. The translation of the accepted grand…
  • p. 303 …the principal features of the plan were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
  • p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
  • p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
  • p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
  • p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
  • p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
  • p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
  • p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been accomplished, yet now it…
  • p. 509 …Island, in the Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May the two…
  • p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the aircrews, for on the operational level…
  • p. 524 …handicaps under which AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
  • p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that proper observance of economy of force would never…
  • p. 531 …Crews which had previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these weapons into…
  • p. 544 …But the Japanese never at any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
  • p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into All told, the record…
  • p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com- mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
  • p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
  • p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
  • p. 614 …that reason deserving a high priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
  • p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign- ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
  • p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
  • p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England, nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
  • p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never before equaled by the military forces of two…
  • p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 6 2 0 - 2 6
37. Ltr., C G USAFBI to Eaker, 25
38. Eaker Diary, 15 Apr. 1942.
39. Plan for a Bomber Command to
be in the United Kingdom, 2o M ~ ~ .1942
Plan), G-3 Annex.
1942.
AF, USAFBI, 19 May 1942.
Annex.
'942. 59. Bomber Command Plan, G-z
July 1942. 60. See Tables of Organization for
45. Ltr., Eaker to AM Sir Arthur T. various AAF echelons of organization, I
Harris, AOC-in-C RAF BC, 30 July July 1942.
1942; ltr., Harris to Eaker, 3 1 July 1942; 61. Eaker Report, p. 6, and Intel.
ltr., Eaker to Harris, 8 Aug. 1942; ltr., Annex, p. I ; ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF,
Harris to Eaker, 9 Aug. 1942. 16 Aug. 1942.
46. Ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May 62. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 Mar.
1942. '942.
47. Conferences with ACM Sholto 63. History, 18th Weather Sq., pp.
Douglas, AOC-in-C RAF FC, 2 3 June 24-26, 29.
2nd 7 J d Y 19429 in File 706; Conference 64. Memo for Arnold from Col. A.W.
with Gen. Eisenhower, 26 June 19421 Marriner, Dir. of Communications, I
File 706. Apr. 1942.
48. Minutes of a Meeting held at the 65. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 2 2 May
Air Ministry on 30 November 1942 to
Discuss Revised Airfield Requirements
Of the Eighth (us)
49. Arnold-Portal Conference, United
Nations' Air Forces, Minutes of 3d Meet-
ing, 28 May 1942, p. 6.
to G/C Strafford, RAFDEL, Washing-
ton, D.C., 29 Jan. 1942; ltr., Eaker to
AVM Graham, RAF BC, 2 2 June 1942.
5 1 . L ~ ~ , ,CG Eighth AF to CG v n ~
Ground ~i~ supportCommand, 2 7 jUly
1942; Itr., Spaatz to C G ETOUSA, 8
Aug. 1942. Dec. 1943.
52. Draft ltr., by L ~ .col. John O'D.
Murtaugh, Hq. Eighth AF, 3 1 July 1942;
memo for AC/S, G-3, Eighth AF from
Col. Murtaugh, G-3 Defense Officer, 9
53. Lu., Gen, Longfellow, CG VIII
BC to CG Eighth AF, 10 Feb. 1943; kr.,
W/C Wood, Air Ministry to C G Eighth
AF, 16 Feb. 1943; kr., C G Eighth AF to
C G ETOUSA, 24 Feb. 1943.
54. C G Eighth AF to C G ETOUSA,
Of Lt. Gen. Eaker On USAAF
Activities in the U.K. Covering Period
3 1 Dec. 1943 (hereinafter cited as Eaker
Report), p. 6; Bomber Command Plan,
p. 4.
5 5 . Bomber Command Plan, p. 4.
56. VIII BC Diary, 14 Mar., 17 May
57. [bid., 18 May 1942.
58. I9 July '942.
Feb. 1942.
(hereinafter cited as Bomber Command from Feb* zo, '942 to Dee* 3 1 9 '9437 dtd*
40. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
41. Office Memo I , Det. Hq. Eighth
42. Bomber Command Plan, G-3 '942.
43. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
44. Ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF, 6
1942; ltr., Signal Officer, VIII BC to CG
VIII BC, 24 July 1942; w/c P.S. F ~ ~ ~ ,
Asst. Dir. Overseas (Ferrying), Air Min-
istry, Memorandum on the Movement by
Air of US. Forces to the United King-
dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942.
50. Ltr., Col. H.L. George, AWPD 66. Ltr., Col. Leland H. Stanford,
Signal Officer, Hq. VIlI BC to A-2 Sec.,
VIII BC, Report of Lessons Learned-
Communications, z z Nov. 1942, pp. I I -
1 2 ; Capt. E.K. Richardson, Radio and
Radar Officer, Hq. Eighth AF, Historical
Review-Radio and Radar Branch, 24
67. Sce sources in n. 66; also 1st ind.
to ltr.? Signal Set., Hq. VIII AFSC to
Signal Officer, Eighth AF, 24 Sept. 1942.
68. Stanford report, as cited in n. 66,
69. Ltr., Brig. Gen. J.T. McNarney,
C/S SPOBS to Sir Charles Portal, Brit.
C/AS, 30 Sept. 1941. See also, for the
Air Force*
Aug. 1942. p. 11.
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