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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. 75 …In the North Pacific only the narrow Bering Strait separated Siberia from Alaska, and farther south…
  • p. 242 …O R+ POI NT HAWAIIAN I SLA PACIFIC OCEAN 196 o w s U I DS
  • p. 322 …any one of many points in both oceans and along our coast lines and against the…
  • p. 332 …The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President’s statement that “the broad oceans which have…
  • p. 387 …Another Indian Ocean route was proposed that would have connected Mombasa with Ceylon or Bangalore, India…
  • p. 480 …Nimitz as commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, whose responsibilities included the maintenance of…
  • p. 489 …Defense of the South Pacific Route It has been indicated elsewhere that the fear of just…
  • p. 515 …Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Ocean Area, could not know of the debates…
  • p. 537 …Pacific Ocean,’ but the division of command between the Army and Navy in the Pacific naturally…
  • p. 630 …T h e United States was asked to provide additional air strength for the Pacific, to…
  • p. 775 …Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry (London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of Information covering the organization…
  • p. 791 …ON1 Combat Narratives, Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, I Feb.-ro Mar. 1942; RAAF Intel…
  • p. 797 …This action was to be co-ordinated with an operation in the South Pacific against Tulagi…
  • p. 833 …Headquarters, VIII Bomber Command, High Wycombe Prime Minister Pacific Ocean Area New Caledonia Task Force Plan…
  • p. 850 …336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496 India-China Ferry, organization, 508 Indian Ocean, 33…
  • p. 856 …I , 432, 477 Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236, 272-73 Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452…
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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