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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. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8 LONDON The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada Copyright 1948 by…
  • p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary judgment of the importance of this…
  • p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani- zation and, by default, leadership…
  • p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
  • p. 61 …It held that there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
  • p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures, and Howell’s group…
  • p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be completely stopped, but their effects could best…
  • p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
  • p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could be concentrated on either coast…
  • p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval air units, while the army attempted to…
  • p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train- ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
  • p. 164 …A m y air units in the Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
  • p. 176 …no military alliances were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans only…
  • p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
  • p. 285 …From 1938 the United States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
  • p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and lmmediate Deployment On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
  • p. 289 …ground units sent in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major invasion of…
  • p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States. Capture of…
  • p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them- selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
  • p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart- ment again pressed for an answer…
  • p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle East Air Force and later as…
  • p. 430 …Attempts had been made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United States, but…
  • p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no opportunity to get set. The…
  • p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters already included many representatives of the…
  • p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the Netherlands East Indies, he was…
  • p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed trucks…
  • p. 563 …Grady arrived from the United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with reference to…
  • p. 564 …TO C H I N A graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to make high…
  • p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became almost a t once…
  • p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily against…
  • p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air units initially based there were to…
  • p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United Kingdom several months…
  • p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with its own under a plan eventually…
  • p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was (Patrick, United States in the Air, pp. 190-91.) 38. Charges of…
  • p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941. 9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a. 92…
  • p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
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.
744

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