“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.
4-48
- 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
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