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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 6 4 9 - 5 7
194. Msg. 81898, USAFBI to AG-
WAR, 5 June 1942.
195. Program Planning and Control
Unit, Task Force Sec., Hq. AAF, Tenta-
tive Bolero Task Force, Tentative Plan
for Unit Shipments, I July 1942. See as a
preliminary move, Plans Div., W a r Or-
ganization and Movement, Tentative
Bolero-Complete, 3 June 1942.
196. Memo for AC/S, OPD from Col.
O.A. Anderson, 10 July 1942.
197. Key Plan for the Reception, Ac-
commodation and Maintenance of the
US. Forces (D.Q.M.G.) (L) Paper 89,
2 5 July 1942.
198. Eighth Air Force Commanders’
Meeting, 10 Nov. 1942.
May 1942; Conference, Gen. Lee, Cols.
Larkin, McGinnis, Ross, Booth, Lyon, 9
May 1942, in Lyon Conferences.
177. Ltr., Hq. SOS to C G AAF, 26
June 1942; ltr., Gen. Spaatz to CG SOS,
7 July 1942.
178. History, VIII AFSC, chap. i, pp.
24-26.
179. History, USSTAF, 111, chap. i,
24.
180. History, Engineer Sec., p. 2.
181. Conference with Mr. Ogden of
the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, in-
cluding Gen. Miller, Gen. Dunton, and
Lt. Col. Short, 9 July 1942; ltr., Frank to
Arnold, 2 5 Sept. 1942.
182. Ltr., Gen. Dunton, CO 3d Serv-
ice Area. VIII AFSC to Gen. Miller. C G
ASC, 18 July 1942; History, VIII AFSC,
chap. v, p. 5 5 ; History, USSTAF, 111, NOTES TO CHAPTER 18
chap. i, 39-41.
183. Ltr., Spaatz to Arnold, 5 July
‘942.
184. Memo for C/S VIII AFSC from
Frank, 1 7 Aug. 1942.
185. VIII AFSC Construction Pro-
gram, 16 Sept. 1942.
186. Minutes of Meeting held at
WIDEWING, Bushy Park, on Tuesday,
28 July 1942; ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth
AF, 16 Sept. 1942; History, VIII AFSC,
chap. v, pp. 103-5.
187. Annual Report of Procurement
in the United Kingdom, Lt. Col. Kenneth
Collins to Chief, Supply Div., VIIT AFSC,
188. Msg., ETOUSA to AGWAR, 17
Sept. 1942; History, USSTAF, 111, chap.
11, 9 1 9 2 .
189. Ltr., Eaker to CG Eighth AF, 19
June 1942.
190. CPS 26/2/D, 28 Apr. 1942.
191. Lee Diary, 14 May 1942.
192. Summary of Bolero Require-
ments, Rev. 1 3 May 1942, i d . to memo
for Spaatz from Col. Fersen, 14 May
’942.
193. Accommodations of US. AAF,
App. A; memo for C/AS RAF from
Arnold, 3 0 May 1942.
29 June 1943.
I . VIII Bomber Command War
Diary, 28 July 1942; History, Eighth Air
Force, I, 132; ltr., Eaker to Brig. Gen. F.
Trubee Davidson, 24 July 1942.
2. VIII BC W a r Diary, 1 2 Apr. 1942;
ltr., Eaker to Davidson, 24 July 1942.
3. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 22 May 1942.
Cf. ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF, 1 1 Aug.
‘942.
4. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 2 2 May 1942;
Training to be Conducted in Bolero
Theater Prior to Entry into Combat, n.d.,
in USSTAF file, Combat Crews; Train-
ing Deficiencies on New Combat Crews
(H.B.), n.d. but prior to 3 Aug. 1942, in
same file; ltr., Eaker to CG Eighth AF,
1 1 Aug. 1942; VIII BC War Diary, 2 4
July 1942; General Eaker’s Diary, I and
6 Aug. 1942; History, Eighth Air Force,
I, 3 1 2 ff.; History, 1st Bomb. Wing.
5. History, Eighth Air Force, I,
3 1 2 ff.; Eaker Diary, I hug. 1942.
6. Ltr., AM Sholto Douglas to Spaatz,
in File 706; ltr., AOC-in-C, RAF FC to
CG Eighth AF, 4 July 1942; File 706,
26 June 1942; ltr., Hq. VIII FC to C G
Eighth AF, 1 1 Aug. 1942; ltr., C G
VIII FC to Spaatz, 3 Aug. 1942; History,
Eighth Air Force, 11, 707 ff.; History,
31st Fighter Gp.
7. File 706, 1 2 Aug. 1942; History,
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