“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
ANZAC, 413
Aparri, 215, 2 1 ~ 2 0
AQUILA, FORCE, 493
Arafura Sea, 414
ARCADIA conference, 237-46, 248, 252-
5 5 , 265, 267, 281, 310, 312, 342, 367,
372, 492, 5 5 9 - 6 2 , 565, 612
Archerfield, 227, 230, 376, 414, 422, 432
Argentia, 142, 156
ArmCe de 1’Air. See French Air Force.
Armstrong, Col. F. A., Jr., 626, 660
Army, First (1918), 13-14
Army Air Corps: Chief of, 31-32, 48, 50,
59, 63, 115, 129, 176-77, 260, 314, 316,
326, 598 (see also Arnold; Brett; Fou-
lois; Patrick; Westover) ; expansion,
104-16; mission, 45, 47-52, 63, 67-68,
105, 114, 138; Office of Chief, 2 2 , 3 2 ,
46, 489 50, 531 55, 63, 1149 146, 250,
264; strength, 104-16
Army Air Force in Great Britain, 615,
618; CG, 615
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Coind.:
established, 537, 552; genesis, 519, 538-
53; mission, 5 5 2 ; strength, 537
Army Air Forces Headquarters, 50, 170,
178, 182, 186, 238, 265, 292, 347, 384,
582, 616, 645, 652-53, 663. See also Air
Staff; Hq. offices.
Ammy Air Forces organization, 18-33; as
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7;
as Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4;
as Air Service (US. Army), 4, 9,
23; as Air Corps, 29; GHQ Air Force
created, 31; established as AAF, 1 1 5 ,
260; Air Force Combat Comd. created,
1 1 5 ; reorganization of 9 Mar. 1942, 264-
65, 579; mission, 151-52, 155-56, 158,
161, 264, 267, 342, 576. See also Air
Forces.
Army Airways Communications System,
‘559 ‘57, 169
Army Ground Forces established, 264
Army Regulation 95-5 ( 2 0 June 1941),
146, 260, 2 6 5 , 267
Army Reorganization Act of 1920, 23-24
Army Service Forces, 264. See also Serv-
Army War College, 33, 351
Arnold, Lt. Gen. H.H., 114-15, 133-34,
5 1 , 253, 260-65, 289, 292-93, 314, 318,
439, 481, 507, 526, 538-41, 546, 55% 5 5 2 -
4253 4289 430-3’1 454, 496, 539-537 575,
ices of Supply.
141-42, 146, 150, 159, 17% 1939 248, 2 5 0 -
321-22, 3271 359, 361-65, 430-3’3 4371
539 5599 562, 5671 573-76 57W’r 594359
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
601-3, 605, 607, 612, 617-18, 623, 627,
63*311 635-379 643, 646, 652, 463;
Deputy Chief of Staff, 114-15, 253, 259,
2 6 5 ; influence, 260, 265-67. See also
Army Air Corps, Chief.
Arnold, Lt. Col. M. W., 348
“Arnold line,” 318
Arnold-Portal agreement, 248-49, 566
Arnold-Towers-Portal agreement, 5673
Aruba, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Asansol, 498, 500
Ascension I., 319-20, 329-30
Ashigara, z 16
Asiatic Fleet (US.), 138, 184, 366-67,
569
3 70
Assam, 329, 497-98, 507, 5 1 1
Assam-Burma-China Ferry, 498, 508
Atcliam, 643, 657
Atka, 467
Atkinson, Capt. Gwen, 497
Atkinson Field, 329
Atlantic, Battle of, 514-53
Atlantic Airways, Ltd., 320-23
Atlantic Charter, 142
Atlantic conference, 141, 150, 235, 252,
Attu, 462, 469
Augsburg, 596
2 6 5 , 594
Australia, 1 2 5 , 243, 423, 43-33? 436-37,
561; air deliveries to, 327-33, 336, 359;
air service, 421-23, 482-83; chiefs of
staff, 231; defense, 403-26; defense of
NEI, 366-402; Dept. of Aircraft Pro-
duction, 422; Directorate of Air Trans-
in reinforcement of Philippines, 178-
231; 7th Div., 472; withdrawal to, 220-
33. See also Allied Air Forces; RAAF;
SWPA.
4473 449-50.. 45f9 47’9 478-847 4927 4947
port, forces, 419, 477,; labor, 483;
Austrian Air Force, 89
Aviation Act of 1914, 2 3
Aviation Act of 1917, 6, 2 5
Aviation Cadet Center, 113
Aviation Objective, First, 105
Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4-12, 23,
Aviation strength, First and Second, 2 5 0
AWPD/I, 131-32, 146-47, 150, 236, 246-
34; strength, 6-7
479 z50i 266, 5597 f65r 573-749 58% 594-
95, 599--600, 603-6, 630
AWPD/2, 133-34
AWPD/4, 236, 246
Azores, 326
Ayr, 3 18