“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 I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Christiansen, H.C., 199
Christmas I., 125, 181, 192-93. 2 2 8 , 359,
43-32, 436-37
Chuchow, 440, 442, 444
Chungking, 78, 438, 497-98, 504
Church, Lt., 219-20
Churchill, Col. L.S., 182
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 133,
1369 141, 232, 235-37, 2409 2431 252-539
347, 559-61, 5649 567, .570-733 592
Civil Aeronautics Administration (Au-
thority), 55, 111, 125-26, 168, 304, 321,
352
Civil Aeronautics Board, 352, 361
Civil airlines: in air transport, 350-60;
plans for mobilization, 351-52, 364. See
also airlines by name.
Civil Air Patrol, 527-31, 542
Civilian Defense, Office of, 279, 290, 298
Civil Service Det., 637, 650
Clagett, Brig. Gen. H.B., 182, 222, 225-
Clark Field, 177, 179, 182-83, 186-89, 191,
Clausewitz, 42, 5 1
Clipper transports, 324, 331, 352-56
Cloncurry, 230, 385, 450
Coast Artillery, 289; 6oth, 214; zooth,
187, 214; Chief, 187
Coast watchers, 476
Cochin, 5 x 0
26, 230, 486
201-20, 2 2 3
COCOSI., 124
COCOSIS. (SWPA), 33-31
Coetivy I., 330-31
Cold Bay, 304, 3 0 6 7 , 464-65
Collins, Capt. J.F., Jr., 458
Columbia (S.C.) , 613
Columbia R., 272
Combat crew replacement centers, 627
“Combined,” usage defined, 253
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 234-67, 395-
557-61 I ; established, 253, 265; func-
tions, 254-55? 266. See also Anglo-
American chiefs.
Combined Intelligence Comm., 256
C o m b i n e d Military Transportation
Combined Operations Comd., 590
Combined Planning Staff, 253, 2 5 5 , 266
Combined Secretariat, 257
Combined Shipping Adjustment Board,
Combined Staff Planners, 43 I, 560, 563-
Cologne, 5737 597
969 408, 4197 430, 4349 4361 4449 5129
Comm., 256
256
64, 572
7 7 0
Combs, Maj. C.E., 189, 214-15, 219,
Command and General Staff School, 33
Command and staff exercises, 64
Commanding General, AAF. See Arnold.
Commands (numbered) :
I Air Support Comd., 523, 527-28,
542
I Bomber Comd., 523-53; antisub.
activities, 296; CG, 526, 528;
communications, 528, 544; con-
voys, protection of, 533; Hq.,
526; intelligence, 524, 527; joint
control, 524, 527-28; lessons, 532;
offshore patrols begin, 523; op-
erations, 531, 533; special prob-
lems,. 531-32; strength, 524, 537;
training, 524-26; types of air-
craft, 523-24, 530, 533. 537
I Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
‘55756, 293
111 Air Force Base Comd., 613
111 Air Support Comd., 612-13
4th Antiaircraft Comd., 296
I V Bomber Comd., 296
IV Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
V Bomber Comd., 182-83, 188,
V Interceptor Comd., 182, 186,
VII Bomber Comd., 454-55
VII Interceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
454-55
Vl’lI Air Force Base Comd.: Hq.
ik Hq. Sq., 6x3, 615, 639; redesig-
nated Service Comd., 616
VIII Air Force Composite Comd.,
616, 628, 648
VIII Air Force Service Comd.,
587, 616, 628, 637-38, 648-50;
CG, 648; service areas, 648
VIII Bomber Comd., 567, 587-88,
607-11, 622, 624, 628, 631, 6 4 6
49; first combat for heavies, 660-
66; G-3, 626; Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
613, 615, 639, 656; mission, 607;
wings organized, 633
VIII Ground Air Support Comd.,
587; CG, 646; Hq., 646; mission,
648; redesignated Air Support
Comd., 616
VIII hterceptor (Fighter) Comd.,
349, 587; Hq. & Hq. Sq., 613,
615-16, 6 9 639, 641-43, 646;
redesignation, 616
378-79
296
210, 378
207, 209, 218, 224-25, 405