“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Air doctrine, development, 33-53, 60, 63,
Airfields: in Africa, 320-21, 3 2 9 - 3 0 ;
Alaska, 125-26, 168-69,303-7, 357-58,
464-65; British Isles, 344,346 (see also
Air Force, Eighth AF); Canada, 1 2 1 ,
343, 345-47, 357; Caribbean, 1 2 1 , 1 2 3 ,
440, 444,
511-12; Central Pacific, 125, 174-75,
178; Greenland, 1 2 2 , 342-47; Iceland,
122-23, 158-60,344,346;Latin America,
124-25, 3 0 1 , 319-21,329; need for
forward bases, 5 3 , 102, 120-26, 241-
42; need for more U.S. bases, 1 1 1 - 1 3 ;
Panama, 162-63,3 0 2 ; Philippines, 125,
179,186-88, 406-7; South Pacific, 180-
81, 192-93,228-29, 437, 469; SWPA,
483. See also fields by name.
Air Force Combat Comd., 1 1 2 , 155, 159,
2 5 0 , 260, 294, 316,350; abolished, 264;
CG, 1 1 5 , 560, 613;control of Eighth
AF, 613;crcated, I I ~ ;Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
615
67-70,5657 597
162, 299. 3 1 9 - 2 1 , 329;
1787 184,'93. 371-727 376, 39-91, 423,
Air Forces (numbered) :
First Air Force, 5 2 3 , 542, 546; aid
to Eighth AF, 613; air defense
responsibility, I 56, I 58, 294-96;
assigned to Eastern Theater of
Operations, 264, 294; CG, 5 3 0 ;
creation, 154;reassigned to AAF,
295. See also Antisub. defense;
I Bomber Comd.
Second Air Force: in air defense,
278,294,299;creation, 154;O T U
units, 617; reinforcements to
Pacific, 455; as training agency,
2647 294
Third Air Force: aid to Eighth
AF, 613-17,648; in air defense,
294;creation, 154;staging opera-
tions, 333; as training agency,
264,294;units in antisub. patrol,
5 3 0 7 542
Fourth Air Force: in air defense,
278, 281, 284, 294-96, 299; as-
signed to WDC, 264, 294; crea-
tion, 154;ferrying planes to Ha-
waii, 172;reassigned to AAF, 295;
training for Alaska flights, 304
Fifth Air Force, Eighth AF so
designated initially, 612.See also
FEAF.
Sixth Air Force. See Caribbean AF.
Seventh Air Force: in Battle of
Midway, 452-62; designated, 452.
See also Hawaiian AF.
764
Eighth Air Force: accident ratio,
645;air defense of UK, 584,622-
2 3 ; airfields in UK, 620,62633,
649;assigned to ETOUSA, 649;
at Bolling Field, 587; bombing
accuracy, 656,663-64; CG, 570,
587-88,612,616;communications,
625-26; deficiencies, 656-57; de-
pots in UK, 635-38,650; diver-
sions, 299, 574, 607, 614,616,
628, 641-43, 654; establishment
in UK, 576,587-91, 612-54;first
heavy unit complete, 655;Hq. in
UK, 645; Hq. & Hq. Sq., 613,
615, 639; intelligence, 623-24;
logistics, 620-2I , 628-39, 648-52,
667; maintenance, 633-38, 648;
mission, 575, 607; nucleus for
AAFIB, 615; operations, 591,
655-68; organizational scheme,
620,633;origin, 612-13;overseas
movement, 347-49, 639-45; pat-
tern for RAF collaboration, 622;
relations with RAF, 618-37,651;
relations with SOS, 649-52; re-
placements, 627-28, 645; short-
ages, 61617; Staging Area
Comd., 640; storage space, 638;
strength, 526 n, 612-13,615,652-
5 3 ; summary of activities, 651,
658-59, 664-65; target selection,
548 n, 597,621-22,624; training,
613-14,616-17,620,626-29,640,
648, 651, 653, 655-58, 66-61;
training comd. established, 628;
training manual, 626;transporta-
tion, 651;use of RAF Spitfires,
566,643,646,657;weather serv-
ices, 625, 639; wings, 633, 646,
648
Ninth Air Force, 206 n; organized,
341, 493 n; transport and ferry
services, 3 I 2-r 3, 340-41
Tenth Air Force, 492-502; A-3,
497;creation, 484-85;Hq. & Hq.
Sq., 494; mission and command
problems in CBI, 502-10; opera-
tions, 500-502, 509-10; reinforce-
ments,. 336, 339-40; supply, 496,
508; airlines to, 312-13, 340, 354,
497-98,508,5 1 1 - 1 3 . See also CBI.
Eleventh Air Force: chain of com-
mand, 308; designated, 307;
strength (~gqz), 307. See also
Alaskan AF.
Twelfth Air Force: creation, 588,
654;replacements, 645