Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office

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INTRODUCTION
Notes to Pages 1-9
1. Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission 9. Before 1947, the nation’s defense
(Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., 1989), pp. establishment consisted of the Navy De-
188-189.
partment and the War Department, each
2. Ray S. Cline, Secrets, Spies and with its own secretary. There was no
Scholars, Blueprint of the Essential CIA secretary of defense responsible for all of
(Washington, D.C., 1976), p. 18. the armed services.
3. Intvw, Col Thomas A. Fabyanic, 10. For the G-2’s position in this mat-
USAF, Ret, with Maj Gen Haywood S. ter, see Memo, Col Carter W. Clarke,
Hansell, Jr., USAF, Ret, Jan 21, 1987. MIS, to Adm J. R. Redman, Dir Naval
4. Hansell intvw, Jan 21, 1987, pp. Comm, Dec 2,1943, in OP-20-G File on
4-1 1; Haywood S. Hansell, Jr., The Stra- Army-Navy Collaboration, 1931-1945,
tegic Air War Against Germany and Ja- SpecialResearchHistory No. 200 (hereafpan:
AMemoir(Washington, D.C., 1986), ter SRH-200), National Security Agency
pp. 20-4-4.
(NSA), Pt 1, pp. 222-225.
5. One of the few exceptions to this rule 11. Memo, E. E. Stone to Dir, Naval
occurred late in the war and involved the Comm, Mar 9, 1943, SRH-200, pt 1, pp.
B-29 force. Because Arnold served as the 156-157. The allocation agreement of
executive agent in charge of this force (the which Stone spoke was the division of
Twentieth Air Force) for the JCS, the Air responsibility in 1941 whereby the Army
Staff intelligence office served as the and Navy pursued code and cryptography
operational A-2.
systems of their opposing Japanese ser-
6. See George W. Goddard, Overview, vice, with the Army also working on the
A Life-Long Adventure in Aerial Photog- Japanese diplomatic traffic known as
raphy (Garden City, N.Y., 1969) for a MAGIC. See Chapter 2.
review of the development of the AAF’s 12. The U.S. Navy special operations
aerial photography capabilities leading to mission that claimed the life of Admiral
World War 11.
Yamamoto Isoroku, commander in chief
7. See Hansell intvw, Jan 21, 1987, p.
26, for the operational problems. Hansell
was the first B-29 commander in the
Pacific; Curtis E. LeMay commanded the
B-29 force in China before he moved to
Guam.
8. Von Khan directed the AAF rocket
research project at the California Institute
of Technology and would later head for
Arnold what became known as the Air
Force Scientific Advisory Board.
of the Japanese Combined Fleet, is discussed
in Chapter 5. Cf. Anthony Cave
Brown, “C, ” The Secret Life of Sir Stewart
Graham Menzies (New York, 1987), p.
469, and R. Cargill Hall, Lightning Over
Bougainville: The Yamamoto Mission
Reconsidered (Washington, D.C., 1991),
passim.
13. Intvw, John F. Kreis with Forrest C.
Pogue, Jan 7, 1991.
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