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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. 370 …Reichers took a route by way of Cairo across central Africa, the South Atlantic, and up…
  • p. 371 …I 0,000 miles separated Miami from Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000…
  • p. 372 …of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo. Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had…
  • p. 375 …Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and for hauling critical items of supply east…
  • p. 378 …7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54 Before operations could begin, Pan…
  • p. 379 …Maxwell had been established at Cairo on I 3 September 1941, with responsibilities similar to those…
  • p. 380 …to the opening of a service to Cairo over the South Atlantic route. Two survey flights…
  • p. 381 …R Y I N G Washington for Cairo prior to 7 December, each carrying important military…
  • p. 382 …of the bombers departed Bolling Field for Cairo on 20 November. Unfortunately, on the trip across…
  • p. 385 …Lend-lease planes for Russia were flown through Cairo to Basra or to Tehran, where they…
  • p. 387 …for ferrying up the old Cape-to-Cairo airway. Although more exposed to attack, Takoradi and…
  • p. 388 …Tampa-Trinidad- Belem-Natal-Accra-Khartoum-Cairo-Habbaniya-Karachi.At Karachi the LB-3o’s under…
  • p. 390 …24 shuttle services to Great Britain and Cairo. The first step was to establish a ferrying…
  • p. 391 …parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be shipped from…
  • p. 395 …assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo. Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the…
  • p. 407 …Harbor, first to Britain and later to Cairo, had been little more than courier services and…
  • p. 411 …from their normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far East. A plan…
  • p. 412 …Kester-the pilot who had inaugurated the Washington- Cairo transport service in November-was lost off…
  • p. 413 …In February, Transcontinental & Western Air began operating a shuttle service from Washington to Cairo, using two…
  • p. 629 …5) MAGNET (Northern Ireland); (6) Task Force CAIRO (to Egypt).g On 2 7 January the…
  • p. 630 …one group of heavies set up for CAIRO was to go out only after the initial…
  • p. 778 …CM-IN, MA Cairo to M E I D 65. CM-IN, London (Brett) to Trip…
  • p. 779 …1942; CM- IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb…
  • p. 786 …1942; msg. $762, Cairo to T A G , 4 Feb. IWZ; msg. #13, Brett to T…
  • p. 830 …BOLERO BR CAA C/AAF C/AC CAIRO C/AS C A T F CCRC CCS…
  • p. 844 …5 Cagayan (Mindanao), 219 Cagayan Valley, 208 Cairo, 3 1 ~ 2 1 , 325-26, 328-29…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 627-36
training of technical personnel, memo for
Gen. Chaney, CG SPOBS from Maj.
Gordon P. Saville, I Dec. 1941.
70. VIII BC Diary, 15 May 1942;h . ,
Eaker to CG Eighth AF, 19 June 1942.
71. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
285-88.
72. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 9
May 1942;ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May
'942.
73. Ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May
1942.
74. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
280-83.
75. Ltr., Eaker to CG Eighth AF, 19
June 1942.
76. Accommodations of US. Army
Air Forces in the United Kingdom.
Notes of Meeting in the Air Ministry on
28.5.42.
77. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 17
May 1942.
78. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
79. Ltr., Eaker to CG USAFBI, 17
June 1942.
80. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 22 May
I942*
81. AAFRH-2, p. 77; G O 28, Hq.
AAB, Bolling Field, 4 July 1942.
82. History, VlTI Air Force Com-
posite Command, 4 July 1942-15 Feb.
83. Among the special missions during
1941-42 were those of General Brett,
Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, Col. S.C. God-
frey, Maj. G.P. Saville, Col. J.H. Hicks,
and Col. Eugene H. Beebe.
84. Interview with A/Cdre. Sharp,
DC/S, Eighth AF by B.C. Hopper, 1 2
Oct. 1943; VIII BC Diary, I July, 14
Aug. 1942.
85. Bomber Command Plan, pp. 11-12.
86. AWPD/I, Tab 5 (a), Sec. 11, Pt.
111, App. 11, p. I.
87. Ltr., Harris, RAFDEL to Arnold,
I I Dec. 1941.
88. See, for instance, memo for C/S
SPOBS from Col. Donald Davison, Engi-
neer, SPOBS, 5 Nov. 1941;Lt. Col. Edgar
E. Glenn, Report on Visit to Northern
2 8 & 9 2 .
1944,pp. 13-16.
740
Ireland, 27 Nov. 1941;memo for CG
AFCC and CG AAF from Col. S.C.
Godfrey, Engineer Officer, AFCC, n.d.
but probably Dec. 1941.
89. Ltr., Chaney to WD, 17 Dec.
'94'.
90. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar. 1942;
ltr., Eaker to Arnold, 5 Mar. 1942.
91. Sources in n. 90; also Eaker Diary,
4, 1 1 Mar., 6 May 1942.
92. Accommodations of US. AAF, as
cited in n. 76.
93. R.A.F. Stations T o Be Handed
Over T o Americans, A/M (Tentative
List).
94. Air Ministry, Joint Organization
and Maintenance (United States) (S.D.
348), June 1942 (JOMUS), Sec. XLIII.
95. History, Engineer Sec., as cited in
n. 29, p. I.
96. History, USSTAF, 111, chap. i,
23-25, 54-61.
97. Bomber Command Plan, p. 3; VIII
BC Diary, 14 July 1942;Eaker Report,
p. 2 .
98. Ltr., L.G.S. Reynolds, Air Min-
istry to Sec., US. Embassy, London, 27
June 1941.
99. Ltr., C/AAF to Brett, 19 Aug.
194'.
roo. Ibid.
1 0 1 . Msg. $49, AGWAR to SPOBS,
1 1 Sept. 1941.
1 0 2 . Memo for Brett from SPOBS, I
Oct. 1941;ltr., McNarney to Brett, 6
103.Msg. $857, SPOBS to AGWAR
104.Msg. #498, Arnold to Brett, 7
105. Memo for McNarney from Brett,
106.Letter of Intent, Col. W.F.
Volandt, Hq. AAF to Lockheed Corp.,
3 Jan. 1942; msg. #248, AGWAR to
SPOBS, 28 Dec. 1941;msg. $672, SPOBS
to AGWAR, 28 Feb. 1942;Contract #DA
W535 ac-1507, War Dept. and Lockheed
Aircraft Corp.
107. Memo for McNarney from Brett,
OCt. 1941.
(Brett to Arnold), 24 Oct. 1941.
NOV.1941.
1 2 NOV.1941.

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