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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. 5 …Imprint N March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the Director of the Bureau of…
  • p. 138 …1939-4I N 28 January 1938 President Roosevelt declared our national defenses inadequate in the face…
  • p. 141 …changed our requirements for defensive aviation,” President Roosevelt strongly urged that $300,- ooo,ooo be appropriated…
  • p. 153 …When President Roosevelt initiated the move toward re- I 16
  • p. 160 …T h e first step was made public on 3 September 1940 when President Roosevelt revealed…
  • p. 165 …These sentiments were expressed by President Roosevelt in a radio address on 3 September: “This Nation…
  • p. 169 …In an address to Congress on 6 January 1941, President Roosevelt suggested the means; 9 5…
  • p. 170 …O n 9 July 1941, President Roosevelt requested the secretaries of W a r and the…
  • p. 171 …The British had prepared, a t the instigation of President Roosevelt, an estimate of munitions requirements…
  • p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
  • p. 174 …cent; other nations, 10 per cent.'" President Roosevelt, anxious that as many planes as possible be…
  • p. 185 …President Roosevelt’s request for the report had been motivated wholly by considerations of logistics. But…
  • p. 199 …On 5 July 1941 President Roosevelt, in oral orders to the Army Chief of Staff and…
  • p. 220 …and it carried a threat which President Roosevelt described in terms of the greatest danger faced…
  • p. 258 …conflict between Japan and the U.S. Roosevelt attempt curve our independence stop we all know…
  • p. 273 …President Roosevelt specifically directed that reinforcements should be sent there with all speed, and MacArthur was…
  • p. 282 …President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill with their chiefs of staff, then meeting in Washington, had…
  • p. 287 …evening, the British party met with President Roosevelt and his military and civilian advisers a t…
  • p. 297 …O n 3 January President Roosevelt sent Mr. Stimson a list of muni- tions, with a…
  • p. 301 …In his address to the Congress on 6 January, President Roosevelt promised that “we shall not…
  • p. 302 …Ultimate decisions on major military policies were taken by President Roosevelt, as Commander in Chief of…
  • p. 304 …Leahy as personal chief of staff to President Roosevelt in place of Admiral Stark.'* It was…
  • p. 322 …given to the nation by Presi- dent Roosevelt in a radio address on 9 D e…
  • p. 331 …At the end of January, President Roosevelt advised the President of Venezuela that, in deference to…
  • p. 332 …During the course of a fireside report to the nation delivered by President Roosevelt on 2…
  • p. 352 …Secretary Stimson reported to President Roosevelt his conviction that the planes from even one carrier could…
  • p. 366 …raised objections which seemed convincing.8 President Roosevelt decided to adopt the more modest proposal of…
  • p. 370 …Elliott Roosevelt during the summer on an aerial survey of the east coast of Greenland in…
  • p. 400 …Elliott Roosevelt and others failed to locate a suitable site for an airdrome.120A satisfactory site…
  • p. 409 …mobilizing the resources of the airlines, President Roosevelt had signed an executive order on 13 December…
  • p. 465 …for effective resistance in the Philippines, President Roosevelt had decided early in February that the general…
  • p. 480 …the basis of a proposal by President Roosevelt: there would be a separate Southwest Pacific Area…
  • p. 499 …Apparently President Roosevelt himself played a role in initiating the expedition, although it is not possible…
  • p. 553 …Lauchlin Currie had gone to China as economic adviser to President Roosevelt for study of her…
  • p. 630 …in a long cable from Churchill to Roosevelt, delivered on 5 March, in which the Prime…
  • p. 632 …plan was approved in principle by President Roosevelt, and on 8 April General Marshall and Harry…
  • p. 633 …message of 1 7 April, in- formed Roosevelt of his approval of the design; his sole…
  • p. 635 …A fortnight later, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were alarmed by a query from Roosevelt as…
  • p. 640 …in Norway-and they understood that President Roosevelt’s anxiety to get U.S. troops into…
  • p. 641 …On 8 July the Prime Minister informed Roosevelt that conditions favorable to SLEDGE- HAMMER would probably…
  • p. 642 …on the ~ 4 t h . ~ ‘Ap- parently Roosevelt gave his tentative approval in a telephone conver…
  • p. 753 …This book shows the close relations between Roosevelt and the Committee T o Defend America by…
  • p. 755 …Address by President Roosevelt at Washington, 27 Oct. 1941, in Peace and War, pp. 767-72…
  • p. 756 …Ltr., Roosevelt to Stimson, 18 Sept. 1941,in WP I-General. I I I . Release of…
  • p. 774 …Memo for Roosevelt from Stim- son, 14 Mar. 1942. 163. lbid. 164. History, Sixth Air Force…
  • p. 776 …Elliott Roosevelt, zIst Recon. Sq. to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941; memo for Col. Olds from Capt…
  • p. 779 …Elliott Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic Bridge, pp. 27-29. 117. Ltr., Sec. of…
  • p. 780 …Elliott Roosevelt to T A G , 3 Aug. 1941 (Report # 3 ) ; ltr., Capt. Elliott Roosevelt to…
  • p. 782 …Memo for S / W from President Roosevelt, 6 May 1942, in ATC 321. 199. On the…
  • p. 790 …Mills to TAG, Mac- Arthur for Roosevelt, 11 Feb. 1942; msg. #5, Australia to Marshall, 2…
  • p. 802 …President Roosevelt had approved the induction as early as 18 December 1941, contingent upon approval of…
  • p. 857 …See also Coolidge; Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson. Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45 Press comment…
  • p. 858 …Erwin, 330, 339-41, 512 Roosevelt, Capt. Elliott, 3 18, 344 Roosevelt, Pres. F.D., 101…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
5th Air Base Gp., 188, 220, 407
5th Air Depot Gp., 639-40
5th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
6th Bomb. Gp., 16;
7th Bomb. Gp., 183, 188, 192, 226,
3323 380-839 385, 412-139 4847 4941
497, 505: 5 ' 2
8th Pursuit Gp., 412, 424-25, 477
9th Bomb. Gp., 163
11th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
13th Bomb. Gp., 526
14th Fighter Gp., 644-46
15th Pursuit Gp., 171
16th Pursuit Gp., 163
Ijth Bomb. Gp., 439, 613-14
18th Pursuit Gp., 171
19th Bomb. Gp., 172-73, 178, 182-
83, 185, 189, 208, 223, 225, 381-
82, 387, 4'2-149 425, 4471 450, 480
20th Air Base Gp., 177
20th Pursuit Gp., 613
22d Bomb. Gp., 414. 425, 447, 479,
23d Air Base Gp., 166, 307
23d Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 492,
24th Pursuit Gp., 182-83, 186, 224,
27th Bomb. Gp., 162
27th Bomb. Gp., 183, 192, 222, 224,
28th Composite Gp., 166, 170, 307
31st Pursuit Gp., 615, 639-43; first
complete US. combat group in
ETO, 643; use of Spitfires, 643,
480-8 I
494-951 505, 5'2
405
226, 23% 3907 394, 414
646, 657
32d Pursuit Gp., 163
35th Air Base Gp., 422
35th Pursuit Gp., 183, 192, 386, 412,
37th Pursuit Gp., 163
38th Bomb. Gp., 414, 433-34
40th Bomb. Gp., 162
43d Bomb. Gp., 413, 526n
45th Bomb. Gp., 526
48th Bomb. Gp., 613
49th Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 412,
51st Air Base Gp., 484
51st Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 484,
52d Pursuit Gp., 613, 643, 646
b t h Transport Gp., 347, 640-43,
64th Troop Carrier Gp., 644, 648
4743 477
4'69 424, 4749476
4949 5 1 2
648
7 74
66th Obsn. Gp., 526-27
68th Obsn. Gp., 613
81% Air Depot Gp., 422
92d Bomb. Gp., 644, 646
96th Bomb. Gp., 526
97th Bomb. Gp., 299, 615, 639-43,
I 24th Obsn. Gp., 5 3 I
128th Obsn. Gp., 531
3 0 1 s Bomb. Gp., 455, 644, 646
303d Bomb. Gp., 455
435th Bomb. Gp., 479-80
Grumman (torpedo plane), 458
Guadalcanal, 433,447, 451, 470-71, 474
Guam, 427
Guatemala, 301
Gulf Sea Frontier, 518, 530-31, 534, 547
Gulf Task Force, $ 3 0 , 542
Gunn, Capt. P.I., 375
Gunnery deficiency, Eighth AF, 656-57
GYMNAST, 240,560,562,571-73, 612-15
646, 660-65
H
Haamstede, 659
Habbaniya, 329, 332, 338
Haiti, 321, 534
Hale, Maj. Gen. W.H., 457, 460
Haleiwa, 171, 199-200
Hallmark, Lt. D.E., 442
IHALPRO. See Halverson Det.
Halsey, Vice Adm. W.F., 440-41
Halverson, Col. H.A., 341, 493
Halverson Det., 341-42, 493, 5 0 5 , 526n
Hamilton Field, 172, 182, 189, 193, 199,
3321 3591 643
Hammer Field, 299, 643 n
Handley-Page bomber, 16, 37, 597
Hangchow, 444
Hansell, Maj. H.S., Jr., 50, 146
Harbord Board, 258
Harding, Lt. Col., N.B., 331
Harding, Pres. W.G., 25-26
Harmon, Maj. Gen. M.F., 257
Harmon Field, 156
Harriman, W.A., 1 3 3 , 578, 634
Harriman mission. See Moscow.
Harris, AM Sir Arthur, 253, 591, 594-95,
610, 622, 665
Harrisburg, 624
Hart, Liddell, 5 1
Hart, Adm. T.C., 191, 214, 370-71
Haruna, 216, 461, 469
Harvey, Maj. A.L., 318
Hastings Field, 329

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