USAAF During WWII Volume 1 - Plans and Early Operations Jan by Wesley Frank Craven; James Lea Cate

By Wesley Frank Craven; James Lea Cate

IN March 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to the Director of the Bureau of the funds ordering each one struggle service provider to arrange "an exact and aim account"of that agency's warfare adventure. quickly after, the military Air Forces all started hiring specialist historians in order that its background may "be recorded whereas it really is scorching and that team of workers be chosen and an employer organize for a transparent historian's activity with no awl to grind or security to prepare." An ancient department was once confirmed in Headquarters military Air Forces below Air Intelligence, in September 1942, and the trendy Air strength old software started. With the tip of the battle, Headquarters authorized a plan for writing and publishing a seven-volume heritage. In December 1945, Lieutenant common Ira C. Eaker, Deputy Commander of military Air Forces, requested the Chancellor of the collage of Chicago to "assume the accountability for the booklet" of the heritage, stressing that it needs to "meet the top educational standards." Lieutenant Colonel Wesley Frank Craven of latest York collage and significant James Lea Cate of the college of Chicago, either one of whom were assigned to the old application, have been chosen to be editors of the volumes. among 1948 and 1958 seven have been released. With e-book of the final, the editors wrote that the Air strength had "fulfilled in letter and spirit" the promise of entry to records and entire freedom of ancient interpretation. like every historical past, the military Air Forces in international warfare II displays the period while it was once conceived, researched, and written. notwithstanding, those books met the top of latest specialist criteria of caliber and comprehensiveness. They comprise info and adventure which are of significant price to the Air strength this present day and to the general public. jointly they're the single accomplished dialogue of military Air Forces job within the biggest air struggle this state has ever waged. RICHARD H. KOHN leader, workplace of Air strength historical past

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Mitchell ascribed that resistance to occupational jealousy of men who feared the intrusion of a new weapon which might upset the theories of Mahan. Since his return from France, Mitchell had insisted that an airplane could sink any surface ship by bombs or torpedoes. Hence submarines and land-based planes could defend the nation from any attack. At a time when economy in government was a magic talisman, his claims that money spent on battleships was a waste and that national security could be had at a lesser figure through creation of a unified and independent air force were bound to receive a t t e n t i ~ n .

In behalf of the General Staff it should be pointed out that its members were responsible for the current as well as the future defense of the United States and that they were therefore prone to evaluate the potentialities of the airplane in terms of its known accomplishments in the recent war. If this tendency at times injected a certain degree of realism into considerations of immediate defense measures, it also acted as a deterrent to future development of a weapon still in its infancy. Because for many years the Air Service was denied membership in the General Staff and thus any real opportunity to affect policies a t the highest level, it was natural that many airmen should look on that agency as a stronghold of bureaucratic conservatism.

The General Staff was without experience in formulating air policies and more interested in other matters. 15 With an ample purse but no precise knowledge of their aviation requirements, American leaders had to turn to the European Allies for advice. The counsel received was not always divorced from selfish national and private interests, and it was rarely given with a true understanding of the situation in America. Co-ordination with the overall military program was faulty. On recommendation of an American mission sent to Europe in June under newly commissioned Col.

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