Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff), 1934 - 2004. Personal and General Files of Brigadier General Dale Vincent Gaffney, 1947 - 1948

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Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff), 1934 - 2004. Personal and General Files of Brigadier General Dale Vincent Gaffney, 1947 - 1948

1947

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This series contains correspondence, memoranda, technical reports, operations reports, administrative orders, conference proceedings, maps, blueprints, and photographs. The records largely document the Army Air Force (AAF) Arctic Program under the command of Brigadier General Dale Vincent Gaffney, specifically program progress and problems encountered by the major Army Air Force (AAF) commands: Air Materiel Command, Air Proving Ground Command, and Alaskan Air Command. There is also some documentation generated while he was involved with establishing AAF operations in Alaska during the war, primarily from 1944 to 1945. A much smaller amount of documentation pertains to his involvement with aircraft testing in Alaska before Pearl Harbor, dating from as early as 1939. The overarching theme throughout the files is AAF cold-weather activities in Alaska to prepare both soldiers and equipment, particularly helicopters and airplanes, to withstand hostilities with the Russians in such a cold weather environment. Gaffney, one of the preeminent figures in the AAF regarding cold weather operations, corresponded with many of the highest-ranking, prominent officers in the AAF: James ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold; Curtis LeMay; Ira Eaker; Lauris Norstad; and Carl Spaatz; as well as various Alaskan civilian authorities, including Governor Ernest Gruening and the Mayor of Fairbanks, Arfeld H. Nordale.

1 linear foot, 8 linear inches

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