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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 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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