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- p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8
LONDON
The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada
Copyright 1948 by…
- p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary
judgment of the importance of this…
- p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani-
zation and, by default, leadership…
- p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing
for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
- p. 61 …It held that
there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
- p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures,
and Howell’s group…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States
and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
- p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could
be concentrated on either coast…
- p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval
air units, while the army attempted to…
- p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train-
ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
- p. 164 …A m y air units in the
Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
- p. 176 …no military alliances
were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans
only…
- p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy
bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
- p. 285 …From 1938 the United
States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
- p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and
lmmediate Deployment
On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
- p. 289 …ground units sent
in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major
invasion of…
- p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States.
Capture of…
- p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them-
selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
- p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart-
ment again pressed for an answer…
- p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle
East Air Force and later as…
- p. 430 …Attempts had been
made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United
States, but…
- p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no
opportunity to get set. The…
- p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters
already included many representatives of the…
- p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the
Netherlands East Indies, he was…
- p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved
that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed
trucks…
- p. 563 …Grady arrived from the
United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with
reference to…
- p. 564 …TO C H I N A
graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to
make high…
- p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became
almost a t once…
- p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate
offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily
against…
- p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air
units initially based there were to…
- p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United
Kingdom several months…
- p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with
its own under a plan eventually…
- p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was
(Patrick, United States in the Air, pp.
190-91.)
38. Charges of…
- p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941.
9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a.
92…
- p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
D E P L O Y M E N T O N T H E E V E O F H O S T I L I T I E S
security of the route; for the islands in the South Pacific were virtually
defenseless, and the lack of troops for permanent garrisons meant that
slim forces had to be shifted from posts in the Hawaiian Islands. Gen-
eral Short was preparing garrisons of approximately 144 officers and
men for shipment to Canton and Christmas, but they were not sched-
uled to sail until mid-December. Pending their arrival, the defense of
the island bases would have to be provided by construction personnel,
whose hands already were more than full. In the effort to extend air
route facilities from Australia to the Philippines, General MacArthur's
representatives had surveyed a route that could be used for the ferry-
ing of pursuit aircraft.'" Given time, the prospects for speedy rein-
forcement of the Philippines by air were promising, but obviously
time was running out.
O n I December, General Arnold had written to the commander of
the Hawaiian Air Force: "We must get every B-17 available to the
Philippines as soon as possible." And on 6 December he arrived at
Hamilton Field for a personal inspection of preparations for the air
movement of the 38th and 88th Reconnaissance Squadrons to Hawaii
on the first leg of a flight to Mindanao. That evening, thirteen B-17'~
of the two squadrons took off from Hamilton and headed for Oahu,
where they were scheduled to arrive on the morning of 7 December."8
T h e eve of hostilities thus found no slackening in efforts to reinforce
the Philippines. AAF planes deployed outside the continental United
States had reached a total of 91 3 aircraft-636 pursuit planes and 61
heavy, 157 medium, and 59 light bombers-and they were divided
among Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Panama, Puerto Rico,
Trinidad, the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, the Windward and Lee-
ward islands, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines."' But the overseas
deployment which had begun with an emphasis toward Europe was
now focused on the western Pacific.
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