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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.

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  • p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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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