Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office

Notes to Pages 245-252
262s and Ar 234s, Dec 29,1944, USAFA,
McDonald Collection, box 3.
278. Memo, McDonald to Spaatz, subj:
Allied Air Supremacy and German Jet
Planes, Jan 3, 1945, USAFA, McDonald
Collection, box 9.
279. Ltr, Spaatz to Arnold, Jan 10,
1945. 5 19.3 181-1.
CHAPTER 5
1. U.S. Signal Security Agency, Reminiscences
of Lieutenant Colonel Howard
W. Brown, Aug 14,1945, SRH-045 (hereafter
Brown Report) [this report is also in
the Air University Library, M-U43294-
32, and has been reprinted in Ronald H.
Spector, ed, Listening to the Enemy (Wilmington,
1988), pp. 43-76], pp. 4244;
Air Ministry, Draft RAF Narrative, The
Campaigns in the Far East, AFHSO, vol
2, pp. 62-63. See also John B. Lundstrom,
The First Team, (Annapolis, Md., 1984),
p. 480 for comments on the American
understanding of the Zero fighter.
2. S. Woodburn Kirby et al., History of
the Second World War, The War Against
Japan, vol 1, The Loss of Singapore,
(London, 1957), app 3; Wesley Frank
Craven and James Lea Cate, The Army Air
Forces in World War II, vol 1, Plans and
Early Operations (Chicago, 1948), pp.
243-245,366,376,396.
3. Craven and Cate, vol 1, Plans and
Early Operations, pp. 410, 480-483;
Ronald Lewin, The American MAGIC:
Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan
(New York, 1982), pp. 92-93.
4. Craven and Cate, vol 1, Plans and
Early Operations, pp. 428438,451-454;
Ibid., vol 4, Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp.
70-74,88-89,209-211,290-291.
5. Craven and Cate, vol4, Guadalcanal
to Saipan, pp. 405-434; Allison Ind, Bafaun,
The Judgement Seat (New York,
1944), pp. 2-3,9-10; Walter D. Edmonds,
They Fought With What They Had: The
Story of the Army Air Forces in the South-
448
280. Craven and Cate, vol3,ARGUMENT
to V-E Day, p. 722.
281. “Analysis of G.A.F. Reactions
Since 1 January 1945,” Mar 20, 1945,
USAFA, McDonald Collection, box 2.
282. Ibid.
283. Douglass, “Jockey Committee.”
284. Craven and Cate, vol3, ARGUMENT
to V-E Day, p. 754.
west Pacific, 1941-1942 (Boston, 1951;
Washington, D.C., 1992), pp. 22-23 [a
copy of the WD CIS Memo for the Secy
General Staff, subj: Air Offensive Against
Japan, Nov 21,1941, is appended to Rear
Adm Edwin T. Layton, with Capt Roger
Pineau and John Costello, “And I Was
There,” Pearl Harbor and Mid-
way-Breaking the Secrets (New York,
1985), following p. 5281.
6. Brown Report.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., pp. 50-52.
10. Cited in Robert F. Futrell, “Air
Hostilities in the Philippines, 8 December
1941,” Air University Review, Jan-Feb
1965, pp. 33-45.
11. Edmonds, They Fought With What
They Had, pp. 80-81; Maj Gen Charles A.
Willoughby and John Chamberlin, Mac-
Arthur, 1941-1951 (New York, 1954), pp.
25-26; Futrell, “Air Hostilities in the
Philippines,” pp. 33-45.
12. Brown Report, pp. 58-67.
13. Craven and Cate, vol 1, Plans and
Early Operations, pp. 403426.
14. Air Eval Bd, SWPA, “Fifth Air
Force Intelligence Evaluation, Combat
Intelligence in SWPA (A General Review
of Growth from April 1942 to June
1944);’ 706.601-1; intvw, Current Intel
Sec A-2, AAF, with Lt Col Reginald F.
Vance, Senior Staff Off, Allied Forces,
Port Moresby, Sep 11, 1942, in 142.052;
HQ Allied Air Forces SWPA Directorate
Intel, Serial No. 1, May [ 19,] 1942 (mis-