“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 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.