Piercing the Fog - Air Force Historical Studies Office

course of the conventional bombing cam-
paign in the Pacific.
83. Ltr, LeMay to Bissell, Aug 21,
1945, LC, LeMay Papers, box 11.
84. Ltr, Arnold to Donovan, Dec 30,
1944, AFHSO, Norstad Papers, microfilm
reel 328 1 1.
85. Internal A-2 rprt, “Survey of the
Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff,
Intelligence,” Apr 21, 1945, 142.021.1,
file, “Memoranda and Correspondence”;
see also memo, for Dep Chief, Plans and
Policy Staff, subj: Analysis Divi-
sion-Functions, Organization, Personnel
and Policy, Apr 24, 1945, vol 7, doc 217,
203.6.
86. Internal A-2 rprt, “Survey of the
Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff,
Intelligence,” Apr 21, 1945; see also
memo, for Dep Chief, Plans and Policy
Staff, subj: Analysis Division-Functions,
Organization, Personnel and Policy, Apr
24, 1945; Herman S. Wolk, Planning and
Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943-
1947 (Washington, D.C., 1984), pp. 31-
1. Memo, Eaker to Asst Secy War for
Air, subj: Intelligence Study, Jul6, 1945.
2. Williamson Murray is indebted to
Professor Brian Sullivan of the strategy
department of the U.S. Naval War College
for bringing this episode to his attention
and for underlining its significance.
3. Lects, Lt Cmdr R. A. Ofstie, “Aviation
in the Sino-Japanese War,” given at
the Navy Dept, Jan 1938, 248.501-65,
1937-1939.
4. For General Vuillemin’s visit to
Germany, see Documents diplomatique
francais, 2d ser, vol 10, doc 401, 18.8.38,
doc 429, 21.8.38, and doc 444,23.8.38.
5. Akten zur desutschen auswiirtgen
Politik, ser D, vol 2, doc 377, 26.9.38.
6. For the course of British intelligence
estimates as to the German air danger (and
danger in general), see Wesley Wark, The
Notes to Pages 388-398
44.
87. Memo, for AC/S, G-2, subj: Survey
of Intelligence Activities of Amy Air
Forces (which contains an extract of
AAFR 20-1, Organization, pertaining to
the office of A-2), Nov 9, 1945, 142.01.
88. Ibid.
89. Memo, Bissell for CIS, Jul 3, 1944,
142.0302-8.
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90. Ltr, Arnold to Marshall, subj:
Heavy Bombers for Russia, Feb 26,1943,
LC, Arnold Papers, box 39.
91. Memo, subj: Soviet Intentions in
Eastern Europe, n.d. [Dec 1944 or Jan
19451, 142.0302-8; memo, for AC/AS,
Intelligence, subj: Reorganization, Feb 4,
1944,142.0202-1 3.
92. Memo, Col Grinnell Martin for Air
Intel Div (Col Adams), subj: Strategic
Vulnerability of the United States, Sep 27,
1945, 142.12-1 3.
93. Memo, G-2, with cvr Itr of Maj
Virgil 0. Johnson, AC/AS, Intelligence,
NOV 16, 1945, 142.12-1.
94. Ibid.
Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and
Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 (Ithaca, N.Y.,
1985).
7. For discussions of the development
of air doctrine in the AAF, see Thomas H.
Greer, The Development of Air Doctrine
in the Army Air Force, 191 7-41 (Maxwell
AFB, Ala., 1955), and Thomas Fabyanic,
“A Critique of United States Air War
Planning, 1941-44” (dissertation, St.
Louis University, 1973). See also the
discussion in Murray, Luftwaffe, app 1.
8. ACTS, Capt Thomas D. White, “Ja-
pan as an Objective for Air Attack, 1937-
1938,” 248.501-65.
9. See Williamson Murray, The Change
in the European Balance of Power,
1938-1939: The Path to Ruin (Princeton,
19851, chap 1, for an indication of how
historians even after the fact have misesti-
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