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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…
C H A P T E R 13
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T H E PROBLEM OF
NEW GUINEA
HOUGH apprehension for the security of Australia had been
considerably relieved by Japan’s withdrawal after the Coral
T Sea engagement, and though the offensive strength of theJapanese fleet had been seriously crippled at Midway, enemy forces
still posed a serious threat to the Allied position in Australia and espe-
cially to the line of communications which joined it to the United
States. Even in the absence of carrier strength, it would be possible
for the enemy to move from Rabaul down the Solomons under cover
of land-based aviation and thus to challenge the Allies for posses-
sion of New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and the Fijis. Already, in
early May, he had occupied Tulagi on Florida Island, seat of the
British Resident Commissioner of the Solomons; and early in June,
Japanese troops moved across from Tulagi to the Lunga Plain of
Guadalcanal, where they would begin construction of an airfield
destined to fame in American military annals as Henderson Field.
At the same time, he held Lae and Salamaua on the Huon Gulf, and
from there it was a relatively short jump to points on the Papuan
coast, whence, as events would soon prove, he might even attempt the
seizure of Port Moresby by a land attack. T h e Japanese navy had
sustained its initial defeats, but the army as yet had suffered no reverse.
Moreover, the successful termination in May of the Japanese in-
vasions of Burma and the Philippines obviously would release addi-
tional forces for the enemy’s use. It was evident that some limited
offensive action by the Allies would be required in order to make
secure the defenses of the South and Southwest Pacific.
There could be no disagreement on the necessity for such action,
but in the discussion of measures to be taken there naturally developed
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