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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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“Mission Control”60+ pages

  • p. 40 …On recommendation of an American mission sent to Europe in June under newly commissioned Col. Raynal…
  • p. 50 …a r I1 and its self- conceived mission can be appreciated only in light of a…
  • p. 52 …In the lower grades, where promotion was controlled inexorably by seniority, Air Service pilots found themselves…
  • p. 56 …complete control of the Army and form an integral part thereof.” Yet the Crowell mission, appointed…
  • p. 60 …The Lampert Committee went far beyond its designated mission, bringing under review the whole province of…
  • p. 63 …to it a more or less independent mission. Experi- ence in World War I seemed to…
  • p. 65 …Command respon- sibility for that mission within the Air Corps devolved upon the Com- manding General…
  • p. 66 …Navy in further- awe of their respective missions. The Air Corps Tactical School claimed for air…
  • p. 69 …which fights for and gains control of the air,’’ and to calculate a well-balanced air…
  • p. 71 …Mitchell could still believe that “it was an established fact that the principal mission of an…
  • p. 80 …based on the fundamental doctrine that their mission is to aid the ground forces to gain…
  • p. 81 …The mission of the Army was defense of the United States and its outlying territories, but…
  • p. 129 …assigned to the air force an independent mission of strategic bombing. Accordingly, in March 1918 the…
  • p. 155 …By taking control of French or English colonial possessions, victorious Axis powers might lodge themselves at…
  • p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the US. Army and Navy…
  • p. 235 …Long-standing differences between the Army and Navy over jurisdictional control of offshore patrol had brought…
  • p. 241 …And because the chain of command in both Pacific areas and in Washington vested ultimate control…
  • p. 270 …Other combat activity by pursuit piiots was incidental to scheduled reconnaissance missions, as when on I…
  • p. 273 …Atlantic and India,” would come under his control at Bangal~re.’~ It soon became evident, however…
  • p. 295 …American forces in Burma, and later in India, had as a primary mission the promotion of…
  • p. 306 …The mission of the MAB was to keep current estimates of U.S.-British munitions resources…
  • p. 308 …of a “nucleus of GHQ.” Its original mission was to direct the training of the tactical…
  • p. 314 …The field forces remained under the control of the General Staff, and the War Plans Division…
  • p. 316 …General Arnold’s control of the US. Air Force is as com- plete, virtually, as is…
  • p. 317 …it also made possible a certain indirect control from Washington through letters written more often in…
  • p. 343 …To permit effective control of fighter planes at night or during bad weather would have required…
  • p. 368 …constituted as of 29 May.’l The mission of the new command was, first, “to move…
  • p. 379 …A North African military mission under Brig. Gen. Russell H. Maxwell had been established at Cairo…
  • p. 397 …In helping to prepare HALPRO for overseas movement by air and in controlling the flight along…
  • p. 412 …to perform a series of remarkable special missions. Shuttling between Australia, the Philippines, the Nether- lands…
  • p. 426 …formation of task forces to undertake specific missions, and for their command he was to designate…
  • p. 441 …But of these, four missions involving a total of seventeen bombers were abortive because of un…
  • p. 458 …During January and February the bomber command dispatched approxi- mately sixty heavy bomber missions, for a…
  • p. 464 …attempting a take-off for yet another mission of relief.’ If the Americans on Bataan and…
  • p. 472 …naval control, during which time six of the planes flew the first American bomber mission against…
  • p. 475 …Such missions, however, could be flown only with the greatest expenditure of time and effort. Until…
  • p. 500 …remain in the Far East under the control of General S t i l ~ e l…
  • p. 503 …But circumstances beyond the control of the aircrews were against the flight. Although a fortuitous and…
  • p. 525 …of Midway, nor had it retained operational control of the few planes actually sent up to…
  • p. 527 …If the vulnerable PBY's were shot down while executing their search mission, this was a…
  • p. 549 …those who had flown their first combat mission in April had to fight a feeling of…
  • p. 571 …largest mission to date comprised a total of six bombers- would remain under theater control but…
  • p. 589 …This, the Army felt, might lead ultimately to Navy control of all air forces. As late…
  • p. 620 …At the same time, it initiated projects peculiar to its own mission and by the end…
  • p. 621 …It would work in conjunction with naval forces and under their operational control “wherever this may…
  • p. 646 …the British Joint Staff Mission a t Washington, the American Military Mission at London.” The American…
  • p. 647 …General Chaney opened his headquarters in the American Embassy building on 19 May 1941.'' His mission…
  • p. 648 …Air forces would have two missions: to pro- vide, in certain areas, an “air defense, integrated…
  • p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation with the RAF, of attacking…
  • p. 651 …Military Mission in London-under direct control of the commanding general of U S . Field Forces…
  • p. 654 …They consider that function their primary mission here and are not willing to surrender it.1le…
  • p. 659 …bombardment missions, either by direct coverage or by synchronized fighter sweeps. Strategic control of AAF operations…
  • p. 669 …o n ~ . ~ ’ ~Such operations under the RAF control system required numerous modifications for the plane-about…
  • p. 683 …not be adequate to carry out the mission intended for it under GYM- NAST. H e…
  • p. 684 …T o adapt the Eighth Air Force to its new mission required a con- siderable reshuffling…
  • p. 717 …develop- ment of adequate machinery for the control of combat operations by establishing the Provisional I…
  • p. 728 …2 , 27 AUGUST 2942 HE Eighth Air Force flew its first mission in an atmosphere charged…
  • p. 730 …in preparation for initial operations under RAF control. Each of the three squadrons was attached for…
  • p. 731 …Policy concerning the pro- vision and control of fighter escort had not yet been determined, but…
  • p. 735 …Shortly before 1900 hours, watchers on the control tower spotted a cluster of specks to the…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 6 4 1 - 4 9
Fourth AF's from A.N. Duncan, 15 May
1942.
137. Ltr., W D to CG ATC (later
Troop Carrier Command), 3 June 1942.
138. File 706, May 1942, passim;
VIII FC Diary, 21-25, 30 May 1942.
139. File 706, I June 1942,
140. Ibid., 4 June 1942; War Diary of
97th Bomb. Gp., 2-16 June 1942; inter-
view with Col. Raymond F. Rodell, Hq.
AAF, 6 Jan. 1947; memo for T A G from
Col. C.C. Chauncey, 4 June 1942.
141. File 706, 10 June 1942; ltr.,
T A G to CG Eighth AF, 9 June 1942.
142. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 6 June
'942.
143. File 706, 9 and 25 June 1942; Sta-
tion List and Strength Report, Eighth
AF, 3 0 June 1942.
144. Ltr., Eaker to Arnold, 17 June
1942; ltr., Spaatz to Arnold, 14 Aug.
'942.
145. Daily Activities Report, G-3,
Hq. Eighth AF, 16-17 Aug. 1942.
146. Msg., Spaatz to Arnold, in
File 706, 1 5 June 1942.
147. Operations Orders #7A, Hq. VIII
FC, Grenier Field, Manchester, N.H., 18
June 1942.
148. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I, 216.
149. Ibid., pp. 216-26.
150. Ltr., Capt. A.A. Lurie, I & S
Officer, Hq. 1403d AAF Base Unit,
EDATC to CG EDATC, 19 Apr. 1945.
151. Eaker Diary, 27 July 1942.
152. History, North Atlantic Div., r,
Pt. I, 213.
153. Ltr., Spaatz to Lt. Col. E.P.
Curtis, Hq. AAF, 23 July 1942; ltr.,
Eaker to Arnold, 2 3 July 1942.
154. Hisrory, 14th Fighter Gp. (TE);
Summary of History, 64th Troop Carrier
Gp., 4 Dec. 1940-21 Nov. 1942; History,
92d Bomb. Gp. (H), pp. 2-3; History,
301st Bomb. Gp., 24 May-I Oct. 1942,
pp. 5-10.
155. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I, 227-28, 254-58.
156. Ibid., pp. 283-87.
157. Ltrs., Spaatz to Arnold, 20 July
7 4 2
and 16 Sept. 1942; R&R, Col. R.W.
Harper to Hq. AAF, Plans, 3 Oct. 1942;
History, North Atlantic Div., I, Pt. I,
281-83.
158. G O 4, Hq. Eighth AF, 18 June
'942.
159. Ltr., CG Eighth AF to CG
ETOUSA, 25 June 1942.
160. G O 3, Hq. VIII BC, 15 June
1942.
161. G O 5 , Hq. VIII BC, 27 July
1942.
162. History, 1st Bomb. Wing, Actv.
to 17 Aug. 1942, pp. 21-22; History, zd
Bomb. Div. (and zd Bomb. Wing), Actv.
to 3 1 Dec. 1943, pp. 1-4; G O 6, 11, and
1 3 , Hq. VIII BC, 13 Aug., z and 7 Sept.
1942.
163. Station List, Eighth AF, 31 Aug.
'942.
164. Memo for CG's, Eighth AF, V n I
BC, VIII AFSC, and SOS, ETOUSA
from CO VIII FC, 24 July 1942; G O 2 ,
Hq. VIII FC, 28 July 1942.
165. Station List, Eighth AF, 31 Aug.
1942.
166. Interview with Brig. Gen. Rob-
ert C. Candee by B.C. Hopper, 21 Oct.
1943; GO 4 and 7, Hq. VIII GASC, 17
and 20 Aug. 1942.
167. Station List and Strength Report,
Eighth Air Force, 18 Aug. 1942.
168. G O 15 and 19, Hq. Eighth AF,
31 July and 2 5 Aug. 1942; Station List,
Eighth AF, 31 Aug. 1942.
169. History, VIII Air Force Com-
posite Command, 6 July 1942-15 Feb.
170. GO 5, Hq. Eighth AF, 5 July
1942; G O 2 , Hq. VIIF AFSC, 6 July 1942.
171. G O 4 and 14, Hq. VIII AFSC, 8
July and 4 Aug. 1942.
172. G O 30, Hq. Eighth AF, 14 Sept.
1942; Memo 160-7, 2 Nov. 1942.
173. G O 29, Hq. ETOUSA, 2 1 Aug.
1942.
174. Ltr., Eisenhower to CG Eighth
AF, 2 1 July 1942.
175. G O 17, Hq. USAFBI, 24 May
1942.
176. Diary, Maj. Gen. J.C.H. Lee, 9
19449 pp. 7-8-

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