“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 4 9 2 - 9 7
29. CM-OUT, AGO to Wheeler, 3
Mar. 1942.
30. Histories, Hq. Tenth Air Force,
51st Service Gp., 51st Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; Russell
interview.
31. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942; Supplies and Services to be
Rendered to USA Forces in India, rec-
ord of meeting held 22 Mar. 1942, in
Ninth AF, Papers Relating to USAAF
in India, 1942.
3 2 . T h e mission was composed of
Henry F. Grady, H.E. Beyster, Dirk
Deltker, A.W. Herrington, and Frank A.
Waring. They arrived a t New Delhi on
17 April and departed from Karachi 2 2
May. ( A Survey of India's Industrial
Production for W a r Purposes, Report of
the American Technical Mission to India
[hereinafter cited as Grady report], sub-
mitted to the governments of India and
the United States, August 1942.)
WAR, #4 ST, 19 Feb. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila 83, 1 5 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 5, 30 Mar. 1942.
34. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold:
#Aquila 83, 15 Mar.; #Aquila 19, 2 6 Mar.;
and #Aquila 24, 18 Mar. 1942; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 5, 30
Mar. 1942; interview with Col. Homer
L. Sanders (Air Room), June 1943;CM-
IN, ABDACOM to AGWAR, 37 DX,
17 Feb., and #17, 19 Feb. 1942.
35. CM-IN-I.B. 70, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 63, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila I, 26 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
$Aquila 1 3 1 , 2 8 Mar. 1942; memo for
C/AS from O.L. Ferson, AFROM, 2 3
Apr. 1942.
36. CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 64, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Karachi
to Arnold, #618, 29 Apr. 1942.
37. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#AMSEG 516, 2 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-
35, Arnold to Brereton, #AF 3/89, 5 Mar.
1942; memo for Chief, WPD, W D G S
from Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942; History, X
Air Force Service Command, 1942.
33. CM-IN, ABDACOM to AG-
725
Staff, Washington, 2 5 Mar. 1942. Also,
see popular accounts of AVG.
18. CM-IN, Magruder to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 161,4 Jan. 1942;CM-OUT-
0046, Marshall to Brereton, $93, I Apr.
1942; memo for AS/W John J. McCloy
from Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville, Dir.
of Air Defense; memo for Gen. Arnold
from Lt. Col. H.A. Halverson, 3 Feb.
1942; memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR.
19, Col. John Y. York, Jr., Report on
Planes for A V G and Chinese, 6 Mar.
1942; Maj. Paul G. Pennoyer, Report on
Planes for China and AVG, I Apr. 1942;
CM-OUT-3 268, Arnold to Marshall,
#362, 17 Apr. 1942.
20. CM-IN, GHQ Java to T A G , sgd.
Brett, #ABDA 448 A, 18 Feb. 1942; CM-
IN, Brett to AGWAR, 10 Feb. 1942.
21. ABC-4/9, 10 Jan. 1942.
22. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR, 18 Mar. 1942; memo for AAG
from Col. H.L. George, AC/AS, AWPD,
2 3 Feb. 1942; R&R, Maj. Gen. M.F. Har-
mon, C/AS to Col. Shumacker, 17 Mar.
'942.
2 3 . CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
18 Mar. 1942; History, Hq. and Hq. Sq.,
Tenth Air Force.
24. Histories, 51st Service Gp., Hq.
Tenth Air Force, 5Ist Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, # I I Z , 2 8 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
19 Mar. 1942.
25. Memo for C/AS from Col. H.A.
Craig, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-99,
Arnold to Brereton, #AAF PC 42, z Apr.
1942; History, 59th Service Sq., 1941-42.
26. CM-OUT-57, Ulio to Brereton,
#AAF RC 165, 20 Mar. 1942; CM-IN-
2400, Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila
1724, 8 June 1942; Lt. Col. John E. Barr,
Report on P-40 Mission, Special Project
157, 19 June 1942. in History, Hq. Tenth
Air Force, 1942.
27. Barr report.
28. Interview with Brig. Gen. Clinton
W. Russell, 4. June 1942; CM-IN, Brere-
ton to Arnold, #AMSEG 516, 2 Mar.
1942.