“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
E
Eagle Farm, 376
Eagle Sqs., 657
Eaker, Maj. Gen. I.C., 60; C G VIII
Bomber Comd., 560, 565, 575, 584-86,
591, 595, 604-5, 6 7 . 610, 615-30, 636,
638, 641, 651, 656, 658, 662, 665; plan
for AAF in UK, 620-29
Eareckson, Col. W.O., 468
East Anglia, 630-31, 637, 650
East China Sea, 438, 4 4 2
East Coast: defense, 290-96; exposed
position, 273, 277 n
Eastern Air Lines, 3 55-56
Eastern Defense Comd., 264, 2 9 3 , 295-96,
Eastern I., 460
Eastern Sea Frontier, 296, 515, 522, 528.
Eastern Theater of Operations, 294
Econoniic Warfare, Board of, 256
Ecuador, 1 2 5 , 301
Edmonton, 276-77, 358-59
Edsall, 398-99
Educational contracts and orders, 56,
Efate, 436-37
Eglin Field, 439-40
Egypt, 320, 3 3 0 , 56-61
84 Group Program, 105, 1 1 0 , 249-50
Eire, 240
Eisenhower, Lt. Gen. D.D.: Allied
comdr. TORCH, 588; C G ETO, 573,
Chief, WPD, 293, 586
5 2 3 , 528, 546-@
530, 5347 54‘7 547
I 06
589-91, 607, 610, 632, 648-49, 658;
El Alamein, 340
El Fasher, 320, 328
El Geneina, 3 2 0
Elmendorf Field, 166, 169, 303, 465, 468
El Obeid, 320, 328
Elsmore, Maj. R.T., 188, 406
Enmons, Lt. Gen. D.C.: CG AFCC, 1 1 5 ;
CG Hawaiian Dept., 452-55
Endurance flight (19291, 60
Engineering Div. (AS), 55-58
Engineers (Avn.): in Aleutians, 168, 305-
7; 807th, 306; in UK, 650
Enterprise, 172, 440-41, 456, 458-59
Equipment. See Supply.
Eskimonaes, 345
Eubank, Col. E.L., 172, 182, 208, 210,
European Theater of Operations: CG,
Essen, 573
378, 396,420
772
632; established, 589, 632
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
F
Fairbanks, 126, 167, 304, 357-58, 465
Fairchild, Maj. Gen. M.S., 50
Fairfield Air Depot, 5 5
Faktor, Cpl. L.D., 442
Far East Air Force, 176-77. 182-87, 191-
9 2 , 201-3, 206, 209, 2 1 3 , 231, 3 6 6 3703
3771 484
Far East Air Service Comd., 182
Fargo, 357
Farrow. Lt. W.G.. M Z. .
Federal Aviation Commission, 3 0
Ferrying of aircraft: by ACFC, 3 16-20,
British, 313-17, 320, 342; by civil air-
!ines, 3 2 0 - 2 5 ; distinction between ferry-
ing and air transport, 349-51, 363, 507 n;
pioneering flights, 318, 321-22, 326, 3 3 1 ,
344; principal air routes, 310-12
Ferrying Div. (ATC), 363
Field Artillery, 131st (zd Bn.), 381
Field Forces (U.S. Army), CG, 31, 114,
Field Service Regulations, 44-46
54 Group Program, 105, 129-31, 134-35,
Fighter aviation. See Pursuit aviation.
Fighter Command School, 295
Fighter escort, importance in ETO, 600,
Fiji IS., 181, 192, 226-28, 241, 3 3 1 , 3591
Filipmo: pilots, 2 0 3 , 219; agents, 405
Fisher, Maj. W.P., 387
Fisherman’s Lake, 324
FIVE ISLANDS, Task Force, 431, 560,
Fleet Air Arm, 1 3 2 , 541, 566, 590, 593
Fletcher, Rear Adm. F.J., 447-48
Florence (S.C.), 613
Florida I., 447-48, 471
Floyd Bennett Airport, 317
“Flying Tigers.” See American \ 7 ~ l ~ n -
Flying Training Comd., 2 5 0
Foch, Marshal, 15
Footscray, 422
Ford, Rep. Leland, 285
Ford Motor Co., 422
Formosa, 191, 2 0 1 , 203-5, 208-9, 215, 376-
Fort Chimo, 346
Fort Dix, 640
Fort Glenn, 464, 466, 468
Fort Greeley, 464
3’5-37, 339-44, 349; by ATC, 362; by
5 8 2
139
657-58, 663, 665
41q3 413, 430-319 434-377 4477 47‘
613
teer Gp.
777 3% 44’