“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…
I N D E X
Commerce, Dept. of, 29, 55
Committee to Defend America by Aid-
ing the Allies, 127
Communications, 55, 1 5 2 , 155-59, 169,
186, 188, 242, 344-48, 419, 423, 447, 476,
494, 7 1 1 , 625-26, 644-45. See also
Radar:
Composite group, defined, 156 n
Cone. Capt. R.A.. 465. . -
Connally,'Lt. J.B., 205 n, 381
Connell, Col. Carl, 482
Consolidated Aircraft COT., 280, 359-60
Contract Air Cargo Div. (ASC), 36c-62
Convoys, question of protection, 533,
5459 5 5 2
Coolidge, President, 25, 28
Cooper, Col. M.C., 499
Coral Sea. Battle of, 444-51, 471, 480-83
COTS: I (1918), 13; V, 240
corps areas, air relations with, 31-32
Corregidor, 186, 203, 2 2 3 , 225, 366, 388,
Costa Rica, 1 2 5
Council of National Defense, 7
Cousland, Lt. Col. C.W., 656
Cowdray Air Board, 7
Crimmins, Lt. Fred, 2 1 2
Crowell mission, 23-24
CRYSTAL weather stations, 345-47
Cuba, 3 2 1 , 534
CuraGao, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Currie, Lauchlin, 486
Curry, Rep. Charles, 29
CUT~~TT,432
Curtiss NBS-4, 58
Curtiss-Wright, 488
Cyrenaica, 341
4049 406-7, 4'7
CUrtiSS xo-35, 59
D
Dains, Lt. J.L.,199
Dakar, 240
Dale, Lt., 467
Daly Waters, 2 3 0 , 385, 422
Danish-U.S. agreement, 122, 343
Darwin, 178-79, 182-84, 222-24, 228, 230-
3 3 , 3 5 3 , 3727 375-77, 385-87, 3 9 - 9 6
407-11, 414-16, 421-249 474-76
Davao, 223-24, 2 3 1 , 376-78, 404%418
Davao Gulf, 2 2 3 , 378
Davidson, Brig. Gen. H.C., 454
Dav-ies, Col. J.H., 224, 230, 414, 418
Davis, Lt. Col. E.S., 169, 277
Davison, Col. Donald, 636
Daylight vs. night bombardment, 59, 5 7 ~ ~
Dayton, 55, 358
DC-3: characteristics, 502; in air trans-
Defense Aid Supply Comm., 1 3 0
De Havilland 4 bomber, 8-10, 57
De Kooy, 659
Del Carmen Field, 186, 203, 2 9 , 2 1 1 , 218,
Delehanty, T/Sgt. W.J., 217
Del Monte, 188-89, 208-11, 214, 21p-20,
Denmark, 90, 1 2 2 , 343, 345
Denpasar airfield, 397
Deployment of air strength, 138-41, 147,
Deshazer, Cpl. Jacob, 4 4 2
Deutsche Lufthansa, 86
DeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.L., 279, 294, 308
Dickman Board, 23-24, 43
Dili, 4!4
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John, 253
Dinjan, 329, 498-502, 505, 507-9, 512
Dive bombing, 457, 461, 598
Dixon, Lt. J.W., 466
Djombang, 384
Doenitz, Adm. Karl, 5 1 5 , 5 3 5
Dolan, Col. W.C., 5 5 1
Dominican Republic, 3 2 I
Donalson, Lt. Jack, z 12
Doolittle, Brig. Gen. J.H., 31, 614
Doolittle raid, 298, 438-44, 451, 498,
Dornier aircraft company, 85
Dorval airport, 344
Dougherty, Lt. J.E., 380
Douglas Aircraft Co., 69
Douhet, Giulio, 35, 43, 51, 82-84, 604
Dow Field, 299, 641, 643 n
Drum, Lt. Gen. H.A., 30, 294, 526,
Drum Board, 3 0 - 3 1 , 47-48, 66-67
Dufrane, Capt. J.L., 386-89
Duke of York, 238
Dum Durn, 500-501
Duncan, Brig. Gen. A.N., 571, 612-14,
Duncan, Col. C.E., 646
Duncan Field, 113
Dunkirk, 90, 94
Dunlop, Capt., 468
Dutch. See Netherlands East Indies.
Dutch Harbor, 126, 168, 303-7, 464-69
Dyes, Cap. W.E., Jr., 405
91-61 I, 663, 667
port, 325, 358, 364, 498-99
2 2 3
223-25, 372, 381, 404-7. 418, 426
151-93. 560-61, 569, 652
506
528
616
771