“US Navy”60+ pages
- p. 48 …This navy of the air is to be
expanded until no part of Germany is safe…
- p. 53 …the Navy, and civilian agencies-
the terms “independent,” “separate,” and “united air force” were used
interchangeably…
- p. 60 …n 5 September he
used the recent disaster to the Navy’s dirigible Sheizandoah as an…
- p. 62 …appointed in each of several departments-War, Navy, Commerce-
to supervise aviation.
The Lampert report, published…
- p. 71 …delaying them, so that bombardment had been
used to cut communications and to interfere with the…
- p. 86 …One might suppose that
Douhet, who “really struck the first blow,” was most useful; his work…
- p. 88 …the desired support of the War and Navy
departments. Only two months after the major submitted…
- p. 96 …issues between the Army and
the Navy over the use of aircraft in coastal defense.
Neither…
- p. 105 …The Navy would provide aircraPt for
don, scouting, and patrolling over the sea and for the…
- p. 107 …both the Army and the
Navy for aviation to be used in support of “the Infantry…
- p. 113 …Japanese Air Power
The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air
arms, had…
- p. 116 …T h e navy, on the other hand, gave
closer attention to the training of all…
- p. 117 …0 single-engine fighter used by both the Japanese army
and navy-was widely known to…
- p. 118 …In comparison with the I 1,000
pilots trained by the US. Army and Navy during…
- p. 120 …In the war against Ethiopia, 1935-36, Italian
bombers gained experience in the use of various…
- p. 125 …Under this arrangement the Luftwaffe, along with the
army and navy, had direct access to the…
- p. 126 …Goering had successfully
opposed the navy's desire for its own separate air arm, and the…
- p. 131 …The
German navy was unable to provide such a guarantee, and, moreover,
it lacked necessary equipment…
- p. 144 …This subject had been under study by the Army arid
Navy for more than a decade…
- p. 146 …even at the expense of speed
and useful load. A few months later Air Corps observers…
- p. 154 …a t best deny us the moral support of the
Royal Navy with its shipyards, and…
- p. 155 …use of a mobile striking
force to intercept an enemy approaching by sea. The Navy had…
- p. 156 …in support of or in lieu of US. Navy
forces against hostile fleet^.'^
In each case…
- p. 162 …announced the arrival on the
island of US. Navy At the suggestion of Iceland, the United…
- p. 170 …AAF and the British, 800 for
the US.Navy.’’’ This would total 60,000 aircraft a…
- p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the
US. Army and Navy…
- p. 179 …In harmony with the general strategy advocated,
US. air forces in the Pacific and Far East…
- p. 180 …For each command, the mission of
the Army (including air forces) and the Navy was described…
- p. 200 …An alert system was in use twenty-four hours
a day, and air operations were carried…
- p. 206 …Scattered
throughout Panama were seven auxiliary airfields, two of which were
ready for immediate use, and…
- p. 218 …Since the
required number of planes represented more heavy bombers than
were then in use in…
- p. 224 …regarding the possibility of using fields
under construction by the Navy a t Palmyra and Samoa…
- p. 225 …I 942.* It devel-
oped that the Navy could not offer assistance in construction until
after…
- p. 228 …MacArthur had requested permission for emer-
gency use of airfields; and negotiations were furthered by conferences…
- p. 243 …This action lasted about an hour.‘ At its end the
Navy had suffered a crushing blow…
- p. 282 …But the US. Navy had been hard hit at Pearl Harbor, the bal-
ance of naval…
- p. 297 …the Secretary of the Navy as to allocation between
the using services. No relative priorities were…
- p. 305 …Army, Navy, and AAF, and similar representatives of the British
services. T h e American members…
- p. 306 …Joint Intelligence Committee, consisted of the directors of intelligence
from the Army, Navy, and AAF, and…
- p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you
know, is not only Chief…
- p. 317 …AAF officers were schooled to avoid
use of the term “independent air force,” but in most…
- p. 326 …after 7 December 1941.T h e Navy was responsible for the general
strategic defense of…
- p. 328 …In the absence of adequate preparations, sirens on police cars
were used to warn the people…
- p. 335 …views between the W a r and Navy departments,
and the unsatisfying conjectures advanced by the…
- p. 410 …ready for use; and it had to
be divided between the Army and Navy.
On the…
- p. 424 …Agreements had
been reached for the use of Australian bases in the ferrying of heavy
366
- p. 464 …For inter-island air trans-
port, principal reliance was placed on two Navy PBY’s and…
- p. 489 …In their prior planning, Army and Navy commanders had devoted
scant attention to the problems of…
- p. 495 …Under the joint
Army-Navy plan, approximately 15,000 men of the 37th Division
were to…
- p. 497 …R I 1
precipitated the war, the US. Navy had taken a stand against im-
mediate…
- p. 501 …the end he refused to permit the use of the field at Chu-
chow. But the…
- p. 505 …into thickly settled districts, and
these were used by the Japanese to justify the subsequent execution…
- p. 508 …the S010mons.~~
As early as February, the US. Navy had definite indications of an
enemy offensive…
- p. 509 …The Navy’s lack of knowledge
of these sightings is unexplained.
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- p. 514 …T o be sure, it would be impossible to use
Carrier Division Five, for the Shokaku…
- p. 527 …s and B-24's for naval use in long-range search
and tracking."' Furthermore, he…
- p. 529 …D W A R I 1
planes, useful in covering the northern approaches across the Pacific…
- p. 534 …For the US. forces on Unalaska Island, it represented a loss
of 2 2 , 0 0…
- p. 536 …T h e Japanese navy had
sustained its initial defeats, but the army as yet had…
- p. 588 …Army aircraft might, however, temporarily execute Navy functions
in support of or in lieu of Navy…
I N D E X
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A
A--2, AC/AS. See Intelligence, AC/AS.
A-3, AC/AS, 430
A--20: flown by Eighth AF, 660; by RAF,
634; in SWPA, 414; to U.S.S.R., 339
A-24: characteristics, 231, 478, 481; in
SWPA, 226, 387, 390, 401, 410, 414
A-29: lend-lease to China, 339; in
Abadan, 335
Abbeville-Drucat airdrome, 660
ABC-1, 130, 136, 1 3 ~ 4 5 ,236, 238, 240,
243, 2 5 2 7 5597 5629 576-78, 59'7 594
493, 576; Area, 36743, 384, 407, 430,
366-76
645
SWPA, 382, 410, 414, 431-32, 479
ABC-2, 130-3 I
ABDA Command: 244-45, 388, 392, 418,
432, 492; assumption by Dutch, 396;
comdrs., 367, 370; organization, 243-44,
Accident rate: Australia, 483; Eighth AF,
Accra, 320, 324-25, 3 2 ~ 3 2 ,340
Adak, 462, 464-65, 467
Adams, Lt., 219
Adelaide, 41 I
Adler, Brig. Gen. E.E., 326, 364, 497,
Admiralty (Brit.), 93, 541
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7
Aeronautics, Dept. of, 20, 23, 2 9
Aeronautics, Navy Bur, of, 129, 538, 566
Africa, in ferrying and air transport op-
erations, 2 2 8 , 299, 320-23, 328, 33-31,
North African.
509.3 5'3
336, 338, 340. 355-567 493-95. See also
Africa-Middle East Wing (ATC), 363
Air base (service) commands, origin and
Airborne interception radar, 2 8 9 4 9 0
Air Brigade, First Provisional, 26
Air Corps. See Army Air Corps.
Air Corps Act (1926), 2 3 , 29, 46, 5 6 5 7
Air Corps Board, 4 ~ 5 0 ,119
Air Corps Ferrying Comd.: control of-
ficers, 3zp-30; deliveries to Brit. in
Agra, 508-9
functions, 1 5 5
Canada and U.S., 316-17; first over-
seas services, 3 2 5 ; intel. sec., 334; mis-
sion, 314, 316; operations, 317-20, 325-
37, 340-44, 347-489 350, 3619 424, 641;
organization, 3 16, 362; overlapping of
facilities with ASC, 360-61 ; overseas
jurisdiction, 364-6:; requisition of mili-
tary planes from, 350; sectors, 337,
344; summary, 363. See also Air Trans-
port Comd.
Air Corps Maintenance Comd. See Air
Service Comd.
Air Corps Tactical School, 33, 46-52.. 59,
146, 604; theory of air war outlined,
51-52. See also ASTS.
Air Corps Training Center, I I z
Aircraft: allocation, 13 1-35, 145, 247-51,
413, 437, 567-68; production schedules
(Jan. 194z), 247; standardization, 107-8;
types (US., Dec. 1941). rap-10; types
sold to foreign states, 129. See also Pro-
duction.
Aircraft Production, Bur. of, 9
Aircraft Production, Ministry of. See
Aircraft Production Board, 5,7
Aircraft Warning Bn., ~ ~ 7 t h ,192
Aircraft warning service: Alaska, 307-8;
Brit. radar equipment, 28891; early de-
tectors, 287; Panama, 301-3; SWPA,
209, 383-84, 476; in US., 278, 28687,
29-2, 296, 298
Air defense: categories of defense, 277;
England, 622-23; Hawaii, 170-75; Java,
390, 400-401; NEI, 366-402; Philippines,
201-3; system in 1942, 286-93; Western
Hemisphere, 61-69, I 16-26, 151-70, 236,
271-309 (see also specific regions) ;
zones, 295-96
Air Defense: Director of, 292; Director-
ate created, 295
Air Defense Comd., 152-54, 577; crea-
tion, 289; functions, 289, 295
Air Defense Operational Training Unit,
295. See also Fighter Comd.
School.
Britain.
Air Districts, creation of, 153-54
763