The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

“United Press”36 pages

• 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…