“The Advance”60+ pages
- p. 14 …But the final choice remained with the commanding general,
who in some instances moved in advance…
- p. 36 …sufficiently advanced to support limited offensives in both the
European and the Pacific theaters.
The history…
- p. 40 …Advanced training was for the most part scheduled for overseas
schools, where combat experience of the…
- p. 43 …Of 2 , 9 2 5 planes reaching the AEF’s Zone of
Advance during the war…
- p. 45 …Trenchard, then com-
mander of the Royal Flying Corps, and was profoundly impressed by
his advanced…
- p. 46 …the Zone of Advance,
the I Corps, the First Army, and the First Army Group, advancing…
- p. 47 …The rest of his offensive forces Mitchell concentrated along the axis
of the American advance. Since…
- p. 51 …among
the several armies.’ Aviation officers had to accept this concept, but
the most advanced thought…
- p. 63 …Its report in October 1933 did not accept the more advanced
ideas of the Army’s…
- p. 68 …on the details of aerial combat, they
seldom represent the most advanced thought within the Army…
- p. 70 …to have been geared
closely to the advance of the ground armies. His boldest plan, a…
- p. 71 …the field of battle of either armies or navies.“
But this unpleasant thought was advanced as…
- p. 76 …who might provide
advanced bases. H e had come to consider that “the basis of air…
- p. 87 …the doctrine of air war taught in the Air
Corps’ most advanced school a t the…
- p. 88 …One was the acquisition of more advanced bases. That
was a political matter, wholly foreign to…
- p. 91 …the years immediately follow-
ing the war, when as yet commercial aviation had not advanced to…
- p. 93 …the quest for cleaner lines the retractable landing
gear had been introduced.lG8If the advances made…
- p. 96 …mission of
coastal defense and that the proposal was advanced under circum-
stances decidedly favorable to…
- p. 112 …Numerous forecasts of such a development had been
voiced since the end of the earlier conflict…
- p. 117 …In contrast to the 2 0 0 hours in primary, basic, and advanced training
then being…
- p. 119 …in the organization of their air
forces the Italians were much further advanced than the Japanese…
- p. 122 …Force, the aviation department sought to promote the
growth of “civilian” airlines, the advancement of aeronautical…
- p. 125 …Though the Luftwaff e hardly proved
to be so overwhelming a force as its advance notices…
- p. 126 …The Lufnvaffe was used both to eliminate the air opposition and as
an advance striking force…
- p. 127 …Leading the rapidly advancing Panzer divisions through the Low
Countries, the Stukas bombed troop concentrations and…
- p. 129 …supply resulting from the
speed of the German advance, the success of the RAF at Dunkirk…
- p. 131 …By the summer of 1940 the breath-taking advance of German
forces had destroyed all effective…
- p. 134 …After seizing key airdromes, the advance German forces
were supplied and reinforced by Junkers 5 2…
- p. 135 …In addition, the rapid German advance dis-
rupted the air supply and maintenance system and a…
- p. 149 …the best
flying weather and each including a number, steadily growing, of
basic and advanced Responsibility…
- p. 161 …miles to the
That attack argued too for the next eastward advance of the Ameri-
can…
- p. 164 …islands, proved inadequate against the
Japanese surprise attacks, but the advanced island airstrips were to be…
- p. 165 …the United States and Alaska. And, as elsewhere,
protection of Alaska called for more advanced outposts…
- p. 170 …New estimates, submitted in &/lay by the W a r Plans Division
of the General Staff…
- p. 183 …T h e
British chiefs of staff did not envisage the use of the vast numbers…
- p. 198 …so far advanced as
those in Newfoundland. Surveys which were made during the spring
and summer…
- p. 201 …32
The organization of the Caribbean Air Force represented a marked
structural advance over the force…
- p. 204 …Of the several outlying sites in the eastern Caribbean, Puerto Rico
presented the most advanced stage…
- p. 211 …advanced bases, a series of inter-
mediate airfields, a chain of fields between Anchorage and the…
- p. 213 …the requirements for accommodating a pursuit group in the same
area.51These moves had not advanced…
- p. 217 …of the Navy to maintain
the long-range reconnaissance that would be required for advance
notice…
- p. 226 …The Interceptor Command was composed of the 24th Pursuit Group,
whose pilots had received advanced training…
- p. 246 …But as the day advanced
the sea had roughened, and approximately fifty planes were smashed
in…
- p. 251 …execution of the plan for an early morning attack, and gave the
Americans advance notice of…
- p. 253 …mission without advance reconnaissance. T h e interview did
not indicate whether the question of an…
- p. 274 …the steady advance of the enemy from the north and addi-
tional landings along the Luzon…
- p. 278 …in advance of the scheduled
date of 15 January. Both the Army and the Navy were…
- p. 281 …and the disposition of Air Corps troops
in advance thereof in order to accomplish your assigned…
- p. 282 …Shanghai to acquire
advanced bases; (b) by exerting slow pressure through the Nether-
lands East Indies…
- p. 291 …These problems were intimately related, and any ready solu-
tion was complicated by the whirlwind advance…
- p. 327 …than “a cadre sent to the territory in
advance of the main body.” 32 T o…
- p. 334 …the War Department version of the incident, and he advanced two
theories to account for the…
- p. 335 …between the W a r and Navy departments,
and the unsatisfying conjectures advanced by the Army…
- p. 337 …It would be necessary to know in advance of the approach of
enemy craft. Next, there…
- p. 338 …time proved less
effective,lo4 for advance warning of the enemy's approach did little
good…
- p. 350 …the Pacific coast defense
zone, arrangements had been completed with the Canadians to provide
advance warning…
- p. 358 …Prospects for completing the
work in advance of an anticipated spring attack on Dutch Harbor
were…
- p. 397 …his staff to work out in advance details for the staging
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- p. 399 …an advance task force of engineer, coast artillery, and general
service troops arrived in the waters…
- p. 403 …T e n
enlisted weather specialists accompanied the American advance task
force into southern Greenland in…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 4 6 - 5 8
in AWPD/I, Misc.; R&R, C/AS to 9. History, First Air Force, Project I,
OCAC, Further Expansion of AAF, 6
Oct* ‘9419 in III-B-I-81 m; inter-
Views With COl. R.D. Hughes, 1 5 Sept.
19439 and Brig. Gen*Has. Hansel1, 5 Oct*
‘9439 both at London, B*C*
Hughes added these to those
listed in the text as collaborators on
A w D / I : Cole O d l e Anderson, CaPt.
Ball, Capt. Moss, and himself. The im-
portance of Hansell’s contribution is
indicated by a memo, An Air Estimate
of the Situations for the Employment of
the Air Striking Force in Europe ( A B C
I ) , forwarded through General Chaney
of SPOBS.
Vol. I, Organizational Development.
10. Ibid.; History, Air Defense Corn-
mand; History, Third Air Force, 1941-
1944, pp. 6-10; History, 111 Fighter
Command, 29 Apr.-6 Dec. 1941, pp. I-
31; History, IV Fighter Command, 18
Dee. 1940-31 Dee. 1 ~ 4 4 ,pp. I-Io; His-
tory, I Interceptor Command, z June
1941-25 M~~ 1942,vol.1.
I I . Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-1, Defense Plans 2nd Operations in
the Fourth Air Force through the Year
’94’, vO1* I*
12. History, Army Airways Commu-
nications System, 1938-45, pp. I 15-28.
13. History, I Interceptor Command.
14. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 4-7.
15. Ltr., Newfoundland Base Com-
mand to TAG. 28 AUP. IOAI: 1st ind.
139. AWPD/I.
140. Tab 2.
141. Tabs 7-9.
142. Tab 2, par. 5.
143. Tab 2 , par. 6 .
144. Tab 3.
145. Tab 4.
1 ~ 6 .Tab ID.
147. Tabs 11-12.
148. Tab 1 3 .
149. USSBS, Summary Report (Euro-
pean War),3 0 Sept. 1945.
150. See articles on “New Moves to-
ward an AEF,” Chicago Daily Tribune,
19 Aug. 1941; and “More Steps toward
an AEF,” ibid., 27 Nov. 1941.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
I . AC Field Manual 1-5, Employment
of Aviation of the Army, 1 5 Apr. 1940.
2. Biennial Report of C/S to Sec. of
War, I July 1941-30 June 1943.
3 . AC Field Manual 1-5.
4. History, Air Defense Command, 2 6
5 . Edgar McInnis, T h e War: Second
6. History, Air Defense Command.
7. As cited in AAF Historical Study
No. 19, Civilian Volunteer Activities in
the AAF, pp. 8-10.
8. History, Air Defense Command.
Feb. 1940-2 June 1941.
Year (New York, 19411,pp. 6ff.
682
Y I .
(ltr., GHQ to’ TAG, 28 Aug. 1 9 4 1 ) ~
16. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 7-11.
17. Memo for DC/S for Air from
AC/S, WPD, 26 June 1941; ltr., Maj.
Gen. G.C. Brant to Arnold, 3 0 Oct. 1941;
ltr., AC Weather Det., Newfoundland
Air Base to C/AC, 7 Oct. 1941.
18. Ltr., Adm. Harold R. Stark to
C/S US. Army, 8 Nov. 1941.
19. Ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. G.C.
Brant, 27 Nov. 1941.
20. Report of the South Greenland
Expedition, 17 Mar+ June 1941;memo
for Spaatz from Capt. Paul C. Oscanyan,
6 Sept. 1941.
2 1 . Memo for C/S from Sec. of Air
Staff, 25 July 1941.
2 2 . Extract, tel. conversation, Mr.
Lovett and Gen. Brett, 14 Apr. 1941;
memo for C/NO from C/S, z May 1941.
23. Ltr., T A G to C/S GHQ, 1 5 July
1941.; A G 320.2 (11-5-41) MC-C-M,
Activation of Greenland Base Command,
24. Approved Garrisons, Overseas
Bases, 9 Oct. 1941.
2 5 . History, Army Airways Commu-
nications System, 1938-45, p. 128; His-
T A G to C/S GHQ, 1 3 NOV.1941.
26 NOV.1941.