“Sea”60+ pages
- p. 10 …the major responsibility for coverage of over-
seas operations, and in the fall of 1942 he…
- p. 53 …this department in operations over land
and sea, but none offered an acceptable solution to the…
- p. 58 …Because of the traditional importance of sea power in the national
scheme of defense, Mitchell’s…
- p. 59 …as the tactics of the ground
and sea forces,” the board recommended a ten-year expansion…
- p. 64 …entirely dependable force” for operating a t sea, and the
Army, which “with its own air…
- p. 74 …find a limited career on the high seas beyond the operational
radius of aircraft. In 1920…
- p. 76 …units should be attached to ground and sea
forces as auxiliaries.9*But, so long as…
- p. 83 …the conduct of air operations over
the sea in direct defense of the coast”; under certain…
- p. 86 …Aviation alone cannot pro-
tect our merchant marine or our troop movements by sea, but it…
- p. 96 …certain responsibilities for the
protection of coastwise sea lanes. But the Navy’s obligations, in
contradistinction…
- p. 97 …traditionally naval functions as patrol of coastal sea lanes. Placed
aboard a carrier, the airplane could…
- p. 98 …least 2 5 0 miles a t sea, and the importance of developing
seaward reconnaissance units…
- p. 105 …The Navy would provide aircraPt for
don, scouting, and patrolling over the sea and for the…
- p. 107 …It
is the only weapon which can engage, with equal facility, land, sea, and other
air…
- p. 108 …a great
nation as land power and sea power, and there is no hope for victory…
- p. 112 …advance of contact either upon land or sea, and that victory can-
not but incline to…
- p. 114 …responsible for coastal defense, convoy protection, and sea and
antisubmarine patrols. There was apparently little co…
- p. 118 …they
made relatively little provision for air-sea rescue of highly trained
personnel. In the matter…
- p. 119 …As opposed to
land and sea operations, in which the defensive attitude was easier than
the…
- p. 127 …Recon-
naissance and sea rescue work also figured in Luftwaffe operations.
The badly outnumbered Norwegian air…
- p. 128 …in combined
operations with the land and sea forces.” In keeping with French
military traditions, however…
- p. 133 …Atlantic
and in the Irish and North seas. The attempted air blockade achieved
a moderate degree…
- p. 138 …tradi-
tional policy of freedom of the seas and which denied to our govern-
ment the…
- p. 154 …Such additions to a com-
bination of Japanese, Italian, and German sea forces would have
imposed…
- p. 155 …force to intercept an enemy approaching by sea. The Navy had bit-
terly resented Air Corps…
- p. 157 …the point where it could cover all sea and land
areas from which enemy air power…
- p. 162 …The Caribbean Sea
was shaped somewhat in the fashion of a very flat wedge of pie…
- p. 173 …At the Roosevelt-Churchill conference at
sea in mid-August, Generals Marshall and Arnold had made…
- p. 177 …Near East,
India, and the Far East. Sea communications, upon which logistical
support of these widely…
- p. 181 …Hemisphere, support of naval forces in maintaining sea communica-
tions, and attacks on enemy shipping within…
- p. 188 …And to protect the
security of bases and the sea lanes which connected them with Amer…
- p. 198 …and to insure the safety of
essential sea communications.'s By the first week of December…
- p. 199 …Base commander, included inde-
pendent action againsr sea, land, and air objectives, support of land
and…
- p. 201 …and aircraft warning outposts fringing the Caribbean Sea." Dis-
tributed among the military fields and installations…
- p. 204 …and
against attacks by air, land, and sea forces, while the Navy mission
was to support…
- p. 208 …thorough reconnaissance and observation of
the air, sea, and land approaches to the Canal Zone.” Existing…
- p. 211 …base would put an increased strain on sea com-
munications a t a time when shipping…
- p. 235 …and cargo ships in harbors and at sea, confirming
the general assumption that some major move…
- p. 246 …But as the day advanced
the sea had roughened, and approximately fifty planes were smashed
in…
- p. 249 …the enemy fleet returned to the Inland Sea of Japan.17 Japanese
officials interviewed after the…
- p. 257 …a fruitless
flight over the South China Sea, where an enemy formation had been
From this…
- p. 259 …Meanwhile, the planes of the 3d Squadron returning from their
search over the South China Sea…
- p. 268 …depots had
been “completely ruined.” The submarine Sea Lion had been sunk
and other naval craft…
- p. 282 …and the prospect of breaking through the sea
blockade with a naval escort for convoys was…
- p. 286 …as its southward movement must be by sea, we counted
on neutralizing, if not wholly containing…
- p. 288 …maintenance
of designated lines of communication, both sea lanes and air routes;
forging and tightening a…
- p. 323 …This drastic shift in
the balance of sea power had exposed the Pacific coast and, in…
- p. 325 …innocent American freighter which had been at
sea without radio communication and had not heard of…
- p. 326 …by the time-consuming and vulner-
able sea route. T w o air routes were available…
- p. 329 …They were enemy
planes! I mean Japanese planes! And they were tracked out to sea. You…
- p. 332 …a Japanese submarine rose
out of the sea off Ellwood, a hamlet on the California coast…
- p. 333 …though the mysterious object tracked in from sea seems
to have vanished. At 0 2 4…
- p. 348 …on 26 March 1942 to the Eastern Sea Frontier."
It was accordingly within the Eastern and…
- p. 362 …provide for the
security of the principal sea routes and seven main air routes over
3…
- p. 363 …I N C I P A L SEA A N D A I R R O…
- p. 364 …because the Japanese had cut the
only sea and air lanes over which available reinforcements, such…
- p. 372 …around Africa
and up through the Red Sea to Egypt. A large base and an assembly…
- p. 419 …T h e former was engaged only in long-range over-
seas operations, while the latter…
- p. 433 …a key point in the defense of sea and air routes through the
South Pacific, and…
- p. 435 …an eastern invasion force would move
down through the Molucca Sea to occupy Manado, Kendari, and…
N O T E S T O P A G E S 3 3 6 - 4 5
ACFC to Opns. Div., 3 Jan. 1942; CM-
IN, Cairo (Fellen) to T A G (Adler for
Arnold), 8754 Amseg, 3 Feb. 1942; His-
tory, FC Operations, pp. 99-100.
94. History, FC Operations, pp. IOO-
1 0 1 , and docs. cited in n. 9, p. 1 0 1 .
95. Memo for Gen. Harmon from
Col. George McCoy, Jr., 28 May 1942.
96. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June 1942 and July-Dec. 1942; History,
FC Operations, pp. 133-42.
97. History, FC Operations,. pp. 78-
79, 105-6; History, Caribbean DIV., Pt. 2 ,
98. Stettinius, Lend-Lease, pp. 154-56.
99. History, FC Operations, pp. 107-8.
100. R&R, Asst. for Opns. to ACFC,
1 2 Feb. 1942; ltr., Gen. Olds to Pan
American Airways, Inc., et al., 19 Feb.
‘942.
1 0 1 . History, FC Operations, p. 108.
102. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
cited in n. 96; PAAF Current Consoli-
dated Airplane Report.
pp* 1-36? 55-60.
103. AAFRH-8, p. 61.
104. Foreign F e r r y i n g Deliveries,
July-Dec. 1942; ltr., Col. C.R. Smith to
Exec. Munitions Assignments Board, I I
June 1 9 4 2 .
105. Ltrs., AAF to C/AC, 9 and 19
Jan. 1942; docs. cited in History, FC
Operations, n. I I , p. 113, and n. 2 2 , p. 122.
106. History, FC Operations, pp. I 12-
17; interview with Lt. Col. W.R. Stark
by Mrs. M.G. Radsch, 10 Apr. 1946.
107. History, FC Operations, pp. IZI-
2 2 ; Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-
June IWL.
108. History, FC Operations, pp. 122-
25; ltr., Lt. Col. John E. Barr to CG
Tenth Air Force, 19 June 1942; Foreign
Ferrying Deliveries, Jan.-June 1942 and
July-Dec. 1942.
109. Foreign Ferrying Deliveries, as
in n. 108.
I 10. History, FC Operations, pp. 109-
12; AAFRH-8, pp. 69-75, 85, 96-113.
I I I . Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I
Feb. 1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941;
memo for Gen. Arnold from H.T.
704
Lewis, O.W. Coyle, and Maj. E.H.
Alexander, 24 Mar. 1941; Atlantic Bridge,
pp. 26-27; History, North Atlantic Div.,
ATC, I, Pt. I , 68-71.
112. Memo for Gen. Spaatz from
Capt. T.N. Charles, 1 3 Mar. 1941;memo
for C/S from Gen. Brett, 1 2 Apr. 1941;
memo for C/S from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 3 June 1941; memo for C/AC
from Col. Robert Olds, 23 June 1941;
memo for T A G from Acting AC/S,
WPD, 10 July 1941; memo for AWPD
from Gen. Spaatz, 26 Aug. 1941; memo
for C/S from AAF, 23 Sept. 1941.
113. Ltr., Sec. of State to S/W, I Feb.
1941;memo for Gen. Arnold from Maj.
E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
114. Memo for Gen. Arnold from
Maj. E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941.
1 1 5 . History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 85-86.
116. Zbid., 85-89; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 6 July 1941; Atlantic
Bridge, pp. 27-29.
117. Ltr., Sec. of State Cordell Hull
to Danish Minister Henrik de Kauffman,
7 Apr. 1941; ltr., Kauffman to Hull, 9
Apr. 1941;Peace and W a r : U S . Foreign
118. Memos for C/S from Acting
AC/S, WPD, 3 and 10 June 1941; ltr.,
T A G to C/S, 10 July 1941; History,
North Atlantic Div., I, Pt. I , 103.
119. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 104.
120. Ltr., AAF to Capt. Elliott Roose-
velt, 1 1 Aug. 1941; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941;memo
for Col. Olds from Capt. J.H. Rothrock,
6 Sept. 1941.
121. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 105-6.
122. Zbid., 100-101.
123. Ibid., 107-13; ltr., Capt. Elliott
Roosevelt to TAG, 8 Sept. 1941.
124. History, North Atlantic Div., I,
Pt. I , 12-15, 78-83, 113-16.
125. Zbid., 397;-40X, 405-6; History,
8th Weather Sq. m Greenland, pp. 1-2;
memo for C/AC from Col. Robert Olds,
24 Nov. 1%’.
Polk’)’, 1931-1941, pp. 103-4.