“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
Kurusu, Saburo, 194
Kuter, Brig. Gen. L.S., 50, 146
Kweilin, 440
L
Labor supply, 424, 483, 508-9, 632, 650
Labrador, 1 5 5 , 342-437 345-47, 641
Ladd Field, 167, 169, 465
Lae, 184, 372, 408, 417. 425, 471-72, 4741
La Fleur, Chaplain J.F., 2 1 2
Lagos, 3 2 0 , 3 2 z 1 324, 354
La Guardia, Fiorello, 2 1 , 279
Lakunai, 480
Lampert Comm., 27-29
Lanai, 171
Lanao, Lake, 407
Lancashire, 636, 648
Landis, J.M., 298
Landon, Maj. T.H., 200
Landry, Lt. L.D., 386
Lane, Capt. William, Jr., 385-87
Langford Lodge, 634-39, 650
Langley Field: antisuh. patrols, 5 2 3 , 550;
ASTS, 45, 50; VIII Bomber Comd.,
activation, 613; GHQAF Hq., 3 1 ;
Memorial Aeronautical Lab., 55
Langoa, 380
Larson, Brig. Gen. W.T., 528, 553
Lashio, 485, 506
Lassiter Board, 26, 28, 45
Latin America. See Central America;
Lawson, Lt. T.W., 442
LB-30: characteristics, 400-401; supply
for Britain, 317, 328, 332, 359
Leahy, Adm. W.D.: appointment to
JCS, 255; personal C/S to Pres. Roose-
velc, 254; TORCH, comments on, 573,
575
477-79, 481
Landey, 396989 484
South America.
Leary, Vice Adm. H.F., 419-20
Lee, Maj. Gen. J.C.H., 649
Leeward Is., 193
Legaspi, 219
Legislation: before World War I, 23;
between wars, 18, 54, 57, I O I , 104-5,
1 1 5 ; neutrality, 128-29, 272; World
W a r I, 6, 9. See also Lend-lease aid.
Leland, Maj. Gordon, 505-6
LeMay, Maj. C.E., 326
Lembang, 368
Lend-lease aid, 1 2 6 3 5 , 259, 317, 328, 337,
3439 351; Britain, 1 0 3 7 127-30, 133-34,
236, 245, 314, 318-19, 337-38; British
in Middle East, 3 1 2 , 318-20, 327-29,
337, 3 7 1 ; China, 244,. 3 1 2 , 328-29, 337-
38; France, 129; Indla, 328; passage of
act, 130, 314, 342; Southwest Pacific,
328; U.S.S.R., 132-35, 3 1 2 , 3 2 5 , 3293
337-397 3 5 1
Leopoldville, 324, 355
Letter contracts, 106
Levin, Sgt. M.S., 2 1 7
Lexington, 417, 447,449
Leyte, 406
Lhoknga, 379
Liberator. See B-24.
Liberia, 3 2 1 , 324, 329
Light bomber, first designation, 58-59
Lima, Declaration of, 1 2 0
Lincoln, hlaj. Gen. R.B., 421-22
Lingayen Gulf, 191, 207, 209, 2 1 5 , 2 2 3 - 2 4
Lipa, 2 2 5
Lishui, 40,444
Little, Adm. Sir Charles, 253
Little Staughton, 63 I
Liverpool, 630, 635-38, 640
Lockheed aircraft plant, 280, 3 2 1
Lockheed Overseas Corp., 635-37, 650
Loiwing, 490, 498, 501
Lombok, Strait of, 394
London conference (Sept. 1941), 1 3 2 .
London Naval Treaty, 77
Longfellow, Col. Newton, 644, 646
Long Kesh, 648
Long-range bomber, evolution of, 53-7 I
Los Angeles, 279; “battle of,” 283-86
Losses: Aleutians, 469; Darwin, 393-94;
Java, 393-99, 400-442; Luzon, 212-13;
New Guinea, 477, 481-83; Pearl Har-
bor, 197-201; submarine, 515-18, 530,
See also Special Observer Gp.
534-36
Louisiade Archipelago, 448, 450
Lovett, R.A., 1 1 5 , 146
Low-altitude flying, 48 I ; Eighth AF,
Lower California, 298
Lowery, Capt. H.F., 479
Lunga Plain, 471
Luzon, 1 2 5 , 186, 188, 191. 195, 2 3 2 , 234,
236, 242, 368, 405-18; U.S. defeat,
201-27
Lyon, Brig. Gen. A.J., 604, 620, 628, 636
657-58; World War I, 14
M
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: CG South-
west Pacific Area, 419, 424, 426, 450.
777