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21. Ltr, Maj Gen Mason M. Patrick,
Chief Air Svc AEF, to Dir Mil Aeronautics
War Dept (WD), subj: The Future of
the Information Section, Air Service
A.E.F., Jan 18, 1918, 203.6, vol 2, doc
134; Ofc Dir Air Svc Cir 39, May 13,
1919, 203.6, vol2, doc 45.
22. Memo, Maj H. M. Hickam for Dir
Air Svc, May 22, 1919, 203.6, vol 2, doc
48; Air Svc stencil 4-292, “Function,
Information Group,” n.d., 203.6, vol 2,
doc 49; memo, Col Wm. P. Pearson,
Admin Ex0 Dir Air Svc, for Col [Oscar]
Westover, Ofc Dir Air Svc, Apr 7, 1920,
203.6, vol2, doc 50.
23. Concepts Div, ASI, “Air Attach6
System,” Mar 1964, pp. 45-46; memo,
Hickam for Admin Ex0 Dir Air Svcs,
subj: American Air Attaches Abroad, Mar
17, 1920,203.6, vol2, doc 47; Robert F.
Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine (Maxwell
AFB, Ala., 1974), p. 21; memo, Asst
Chief of Staff (ACIS), WD, for Chief Air
Svc, subj: Cooperation with the Services
in Obtaining Information from Civilian
Channels, Jun 23, 1921,203.6, vol2, doc
111.
24. Ltr, Dir MID to Chief Air Svc, Dec
3,1920, subj: InformationDesired by You
from Foreign Armies, Dec 3, 1920,203.6,
vol2, doc 91 ; ltr, Military Attach6 Paris to
ACIS G-2, subj: Information Requested
by the French Air Service, Apr 25, 1922,
203.6, vol2, doc 119.
25. Ltr, L. W. McIntosh, Chief Engineering
Div, to Chief Air Svc, subj: Air
Attach& Mar 3, 1924; 1st Ind, W. H.
Frank, Exec OCAS, to Chief, Engineering
Duracon, Mar 10,1924; 2d Ind, McIntosh
to CNS, Mar 17, 1924, 203.6, vol 2, doc
151.
26. Ltr, Lt V. E. Bertrandais, Off Chief
Materiel Div, to Chief Materiel Div, subj:
Reports of Aeronautical Activities in
France andEngland, Dec 22,1928,203.6,
vol 3, doc 77.
27. Cohen, “History of Air Intelligence,”
chap 4.
28. Ibid.
29. Bidwell, History of MID, pp. 327-
338.
30. Ibid.
Notes to Pages 18-29
3 1. Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine,
p. 34.
32. Memo for ACIS, WPD, Air Force
Study, Mar 14, 1938, in AAG 321, Misc
Staff, Corps or Department.
33. Schwien, Combat Intelligence, p.
10.
34. Memos, Lt Col W. R. Weaver,
Chief Info Div, for Actg Exec OCAC, Jul
1, 1933, Weaver, for Exec OCAC, Jul24,
1933, and Lt Col J. W. Chancy, Actg Exec
OCAC, for Chief Info Div, Aug 1, 1933,
all in 203.6, vol4, docs 64-68.
35. Memo, Weaver, Chief Info Div, for
Actg Exec OCAC, Jul 1, 1933.
36. Memo, Chancy, Actg Exec OCAC,
for Chief Info Div, Aug 1, 1933.
37. Bidwell, History of MID, pp. 303-
304.
38. Cohen, “History of Air Intelligence,”
chap 6, sec “GHQ Air Force.”
39. Ibid.
40. Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine,
p. 40.
41. Ibid., pp. 40-41.
42. Hansell intvw, Jan 21, 1987.
43. Hansell, Strategic Air War Against
Germany and Japan, pp. 7, 12.
44. Donald Wilson, “Origin of a Theory
for Air Strategy,” Aerospace Historian,
Mar 1971, pp. 19-25.
45. Futrell, Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine,
p. 40.
46. Hansell, Strategic Air War Against
Germany and Japan, p. 12.
47. ACTS, “Committee Study on the
Northeastern Theater, 1935-1936,”
248.501-33, 1936.
48. Ibid.
49. ACTS Lect, Capt Robert C. Oliver,
Instr Mil Intel, Apr 29, 1939, 248.500
8-13.1938-1939.
50. ACTS, “Brief Remarks . . . by Lieu-
tenant Colonel E. M. Almond, Inf.,” Apr
29,1939,248.500 8-13,1938-1939.
5 1. OCAC, “G-2 Information Prepared
by Information Division, 1934-1938,”
248.501-57,1938; Cohen, “History of Air
Intelligence,” chap 6, sec “GHQ Air
Force.”
52. Rprt, WDGS G-2, Japan (Aviation-Military),
“Annual Aviation Intelli-
427