Reminiscences of Orvil A. Anderson : oral history, 1959.

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Reminiscences of Orvil A. Anderson : oral history, 1959.

Recollections of General Arnold from 1938; War Department policy on planes; fighters vs. bombers; Lend-Lease; expansion of forces, 1941-1942; problems of allocation and division of appropriations; organization of United States Air Force; Joint Chiefs and Joint Planning Staff; Pearl Harbor attack; Ploesti raid, 1942. Impressions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, and others.

Transcript: 113 leaves.

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