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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The material for this paper was drawn from the histories of the 43rd
Bombardment Group and its components, the 63rd, 64th 65th, and 403rd
Bombardment Squadrons. Those histories are deposited in single copy in
the Archives of the USAF Historical Division, Research Studies
Institute, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Supplementary information
was obtained from the following sources: records of the Far East Air
Forces, Strategic Air Command, and the First, Fifth, and Fifteenth Air
Forces; histories of the 43rd Bombardment Wing, I Bomber Command, V
Bomber Command, and Dow Field; documents rom the Offices of the
Adjutant General and the Air Adjutant General; the Unit Record Card
maintained by the Organization Control and Analysis Section,
Directorate of Statistical ervies, headquarters USAF, Washington, D.C.;
USAF Historical Study No. 17, "Air Action in the Papuan Campaign, 21
July 1942 to 23 January 1943"; USAF Historical Study No. 43, "The Fifth
Air Force in the Conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago, November 1943 to
March 1944"; USAF Historical Study 113, "The Fifth Air Force in the
Huon Peninsular Campaign, January to October 1943"; USAF Historical No.
116, "The Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsular Campaign, October 1943
to February 1944"; and The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vols IV and
V. The battle honors and citations were provided by the Director of
Military Personnel, Headquarters USAF, the authoritative source for
that information.
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