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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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N O T E S T O P A G E S 6 5 8 - 6 7
Eighth Air Force, I, 326ff.; Achtung
Indianer, a history of VIII FC, pp. 104ff.
8. For initial decision on this matter
of policy, see Joint Directif of 20 August
1942 referred to in Chapter 16.
9. History, 1st Bomb. Wing; History,
Eighth Air Force, I, 3 10ff.
10. VIII BC War Diary, 2 7 June, 2
July 1942.
11. History, 1st Bomb. Wing; VIII
BC W a r Diary, 4 July 1942. Cf. Air
Ministry report, Activities of U.S. Air-
craft Operating with the RAF, 6 July
1942.
12. Air Ministry report as in n. 1 1 .
1 3 . History, Eighth Air Force, I,
14. Ibid., I, 3 1 2 ff.
15. File 706, 14 Aug, 1 9 4 ~ ; Com-
bat Manual, used for training Eighth Air
Force units in BOLERO prior to enter-
ing active combat duty; ltr., Spaatz to
Arnold, 10 Aug. 1942, quoted in History,
Eighth Air Force. Armstrong succeeded
Cousland as group commander on or
about 30 July. (VIII BC Diary, 30 July
1942.)
16. Ltr., Spaatz to Arnold, 10 Aug.
1942; ORS, An Evaluation of Defensive
Measures Taken to Protect Heavy
Bombers from Loss and Damage, Eighth
Air Force, Nov. 1944.
130 ff.
17. History, 1st Bomb. Wing.
18. VFII BC Diary, 17 Aug. 1942.
19. Ibid. Cf. History, 97th Bomb. Gp.
20. Sunday Times (London), 16 Aug.
'942.
2 1 . CM-OUT-5137 (8-17-42), Arnold
to ASFOR, London, AF #3424, 17 Aug.
'942.
22. CM-IN4736 (8-18-42), London
to AGWAR, AF $1274, 18 Aug. 1942.
23. First 1100Bombers Dispatched by
Eighth Bomber Command, I, 15.
24. History, 1st Bomb. Div., 17 Aug.-
25. See mission report and bomb plot,
in First 1100.
26. Ibid.
27. Ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF, 19
28. History, 1st Bomb. Div., p. 4.
29. Ltr., Ealcer to CG Eighth AF, 19
Aug. 1942.
30. Ibid.
31. See n. 23 above.
32. Msg., AOC-in-C RAF BC to
Eaker, 18 Aug. 1942.
33. See AAF Reference History No.
2 , Origins of the Eighth Air Force, for
full discussion of policy prior to August
'942.
30 NOV.1942, pp. 2-3.
AUg. 1942.
34. CCS 94, 24 July 1942.
35. AWPD-I.
36. Ibid. Cf. AWPD-42. For fuller
discussion of problem of production
priorities, see AAF Reference History
No. 18, The Early Operations of the
Eighth Air Force and the Origins of the
Combined Bomber Offensive, chap. iv.
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