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NOTES CHAPTER 1 ISamuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, XIV: Victory in the Pacific (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1960), pp. 361-367; Robert B. Carney, "Under the Cold Gaze of the Victorious," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings CIX, 12 (Dec. 1983), pp. 41-50; Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1965), p. 315; William Manchester, American Caesar (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1979), P. 350. ~ 2Adrain O. Van Wyen, Clarke Van Vleet, and Lee M. Pearson, U.S. Naval Aviation, 1910-1970 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1970), pp. 297, 300, 365 (Hereafter cited as USNA Chronology). 3Clark G. Reynolds, The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1968), p. 391; Reynolds' work is the finest study of the use of American carrier air power in the Second World War. 4Recollection of Grumman test pilot Corwin "Corky" Meyer in a conversation with the author, November 30, 1984. 5Daniel Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, Pioneering in Aeronautics: Recipients of the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, 1929-1952 (New York: Daniel Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1952), p. 117. 6USNA Chronology, p. 160; Richard P. Hallion, Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen ofFlight (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1981), pp. 178-182. 7USNA Chronology, pp. 161, 163--166; Rosario Rausa, Skyraiders: The Douglas A-1 "Flying Dump Truck" (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co., 1982), p. 13; Richard P. Hallion, Supersonic Flight: The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1972), pp. 129-131. BJ. J. Clark with Clark G. Reynolds, Carrier Admiral (New York: David McKay Co., 1967), pp. 244-245; Chuck Hansen, "Nuclear Neptunes: Early Days of Composite Squadrons 5 & 6," Journal of the American Aviation Historical SOCiety, XXIV, 4 (Winter 1979), p.262. SVannevar Bush, Modem Arms and Free Men: A Discussion ofthe Role of Science in Preseroing Democracy (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968 ed.), pp. 45, 46. iOAlexander P. de Seversky, Victory Through Air Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942), pp. 153--183; Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949), p. 298. llAlexander P. de Seversky. Air Power: Key to Suroival (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950), p. 102. 12Ibid, P. 69. 13Marshall Andrews, Disaster Through Air Power (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950), pp. v-x, 54-69. 213 214/ The Naval Air War in Korea 14Allan R. Millett, Semper Fidelis: The Story of the United States Marine Corps, a volume in The Macmillan Wars ofthe United States series (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1980), P. 461. 15Ibid,; for Truman quote, see Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign, a volume in the Great Battles ofHistory series (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1968), p. 5. 16Millette, Semper Fidelis, pp. 460-464; Herman S. Wolk, Planning and Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943-1947 (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1984), pp. 153-169. 17Joseph Zikmund, "James P. Forrestal," and Paolo E. Coletta, "John Lawrence Sullivan ," in Paolo E. Coletta (Ed.), American Secretaries of the Navy, II: 1913-1972 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980), pp, 736--742, 764, 771-772 (Hereafter cited as SecNav); Wolk, pp. 218-223; Leonard Mosley. Marshall: Hero for Our TImes (New York: Hearst Books, 1982), pp. 448-449; Steven L. Rearden, History ofthe Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, I: The Formative Years: 1947-1950 (Washington, DC: OSD, 1984), pp. 44-46. 18SecNav, pp. 749-755; Paolo E. Coletta, "Louis Emil Denfield," in Robert William Love, Jr. (Ed.), The Chiefs ofNaval Operations (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1980), pp. 193-198 (Hereafter cited as CNO). For a good survey ofpostwar Navy doctrinal debates and issues, see David Alan Rosenberg, "American Postwar Air Doctrine and Organization: The Navy Experience," in Alfred F. Hurley and Robert C. Ehrhart, Air Power in Warfare: The Proceedings of the 8th Military History Symposium, USAF Academy, 18-20 October 1978 (Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. 1979), pp. 245--278. 19Wolk, P. 219; SecNav, p. 755; Thomas B. Cochran, William M. Arkin, and Milton M. Hoenig, Nuclear Weapons Databook, I: U. S. Nuclear Forces and Capabilities (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1984), pp. 6--7, 10; Karl Schuon, U.S. Navy Biographical Directory (New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1964), pp. 111-112; USNA Chronology, p. 168; Hansen, p. 265; Rosenberg, pp. 253-255. 'lJJSecNav, p. 766; for details on the origins of the B-36, see Wesley Frank Craven and James Lee Cate, The Army Air Forces in World...

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