“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
Fort Hertz, 502
Fort Lamy, 3 2 0
Fort Mears, 466-57
Fort Myers, 341
Fort Nelson, 277
Fort Randall, 465-66, 468
Fortress. See B-17.
Fort Richardson, 464
Fort Santiago, 204
Fort Stotsenburg, z 10
Foulois, Maj. Gen. B.D., 10, 2 1 , 63
France: Air Div., 14; High Commission,
433-34; lend-lease, 129; World War 1,
5-6, 1-14; World War 11, 76, 90, 330,
563-64, 571, 592, 663. See also Free
French; French Air Force.
France Field, 162-63
Frank, Maj. Gen. W.H., 50; CG VIII
Frankfurt, 26
Fredendall, Maj. Gen. L.R., 612
Free French, 180-81, 432-33
Freeman, ACM Sir Wilfred, 602
Freerks, Lt. M.C., 468
Freetown, 320, 494
Fremantle, 396-98, 484
French Air Force, 90-91
French Equatorial Africa, 320, 3 3 0
French Indo-China, I 89
French Northwest Africa, 240
Frobisher Bay, 346
Fry, Col. R.L., 422
AFSC, 648-50; CG Third AF, 648
G
G-3 (WDGS), 146
G-4 (WDGS), 256
Galapagos IS., 124, 301-2
Galliene, Lt. W.H., 394
Galveston, 5 3 I
Gambia, 3 2 0
Gambonini, Lt. P.B., 387
Gander Lake, 122, 318, 342-43, 345, 348,
Ganges R., 5 1 1
Garfield, 192
Gasmata, 414, 472
Gates, Lt. Col. B.E., 262
Gatty, Harold, 424
Geclong, 4 2 2
General Headquarters ( W D ) , 141, 258-
62; abolished, 264; proposed, 20, 26, 63;
relationship to AAF, 261
General Headquarters Air Force, 23, 49-
260, 5 2 1 , 599; CG, 3 1 - 1 2 , 68, 70; estab-
645
5 1 , 63-64, 69-70? 1 1 5 9 119, 152-547 2 5 %
lished, 31, 47, 67; mission, 67-68, 1 1 2 ,
114; proposed, 30, 43, 45-48; wings, 3 1
General Headquarters Air Force (Prov.),
64
General Staff ( W D ) , 6, 8, 18, 2 0 - 1 1 , 24,
26-32, 3 5 , 43, 45, 49, 5 3 , 65-69, 1 1 5 7 1467
173-74, 232, 256, 259, 262, 264, 563, 5%
586. See also Chief of Staff; WDGS
divs. by name.
George, Brig. Gen. H.H., 207, 225, 405,
407,418
George, Maj. Gen. H.L., 50, 146, 336,
349, 365, $41
German Air Force, 85-92, 95-97, 99;
aircraft types, 88-89, 95. 122; develop-
ment, 75-76; mission, 88; organization,
05; strength, 86, 89, 94
Germany: Air illinistry, 87; as first pri-
oritv target, 2!8, 410, 559; Defense
hlinistry, 88; High Command, 99, 5 1 5 ;
Ministry of Transport, 86; Supreme
Military Staff, 88
Gerow, Brig. Gen. L.T., 2 3 2
Ghormley, Vice Adm. R.L., 473, 594
Gilbert Is.. 189
Giles, Col. B.F., 157, 349
Glover, Lt. J.G., 393
Goering, Hermann, 5 1 , 86-87, 99, 603
Gold Coast Colony, 3 2 0 , 331
Good Hope, Cape of, 494
Goose Bay, 343-44, 356, 43G48, 641, 644
Grady, H.F., 496, 5 1 0
Grafton Underwood, 631, 640, 661
Great Falls, 358
Green, Maj. Gen. J.A., 187
Greening, Capt. C.R., 439
Greenland, 1 2 0 , 122-24, 155, 157-58, 193,
Greenland Base Comd., 157, 349
Grenier Field, 641-43
Griffith, Maj. J.L., 658
Ground controlled interception radar,
Groups:
342-457 347-48, 3 5 6 361, 6-41-44
288, 2 9 1
1st Ferrying Gp., 340, 494, 507
1st Pursuit Gp., 278, 299, 615, 639-
1st Sea-Search Attack Gp., 550
rd Air Depot Gp., 615, 639-40
2d Bomb. Gp., 59, 526
3d Air Depot Gp., 394, 508
3d Bomb. Gp., 414, 425, 480
4th Air Depot Gp., 422
4th Composite Gp., Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
4th Fighter Gp., 657
43. 646
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