“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
also Lend-lease) ; British troops, 239;
crisis in, 493, 560-62, 564
Midway, 125, 174-75, 178-79, 181-82,
Midway, Battle of, 296, 298-99, 451-62,
Mikuma, 459
Milch, Erhard, 87
Military Aeronautics, Director of, 9
Military Requirements, Director of, 5 5 3
Miller, Lt. H.F., 439
Milne Bay, 483
Mindanao, 1 2 5 , 187-88, 193, 214, 218-20,
f3I-32, 376, 381, 388, 404-7, 418, 426
Mmdoro, 224
Mingaladon, 489, 501
Minneapolis, 357
Misima I., 448-49
Mitchel Field, 1 5 2 , 156, 523
Mitchell, Brig. Gen. William, 598; fight
for air power when Asst. Chief of Air
Service, 22-28, 34-47, 53, 57; statement
of doctrine, 42; trial before general
courtmartial, 27-28; World W a r I,
201, 428, 4447 4491 4649 641-43
47 1
12-15, 43.
Mitchell aircraft. See B-25.
Mobile Reserve Corps, 612, 614
Mobility, AAF policy on, 437, 542, 544,
Modjokerto, 390
Molesworth, 631, 638, 640
Molokai, 171
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 133
Molucca Is., 382; Sea, 377
Mombasa, 33-31
Moncton, 347
Money, Pfc W.L., 217
Monroe Doctrine, 117-19, I Z Z
Montgomery, Gen. Bernard, 340
Montgomery, Lt. G.R., 215-16
Montreal, 3 13-14, 3 17-18, 344
Moore, Lt. J.H., 211
Morale: in CBI, 401, 495-96; effect of
bombing on enemy, 444, 599; in ETO,
659-60, 662; in Pacific, 401-2, 413,
451, 481-82
547, 551
M o g m i , 459
Morrisey, Capt. R.L., 416
Morris Field, 299, 643
Morrison Field, 337-39, 341-42
Morrow, D.W., 28
Morrow Board, 22, 25, 28-30, 33
Moscow, Anglo-American mission to,
Moulmein, 492
Mountbaaen, Lord Louis, 589
132-33, 3189 578
Mow, P.T., 487
Mueller, Capt. A.J., 426
Munitions Assignments Board, 249, 2 5 6
Munitions Assignments Comm. (Air),
Riluri, Lt. J.P., 458
Murphy, Lt. J.B., 466
Mussolini, as Air Minister (Italy), 82,
Myitkyina, 498, 500-501, s o p 1 0
571 566
257
84
N
Nagoya, 442
Nagumo, Adm., 456
Naiden, Brig. Gen. E.L., 497-98, 502, 513
Nandi, 181, 434
Nanking, 78
Narsarssuak, 157, 343, 641
Nassau, 355
Natal, 120, 319, 321-22, 324, 3 2 ~ 3 0 ,
National Advisory Comm. for Aero-
National Airways, 422
National Defense, Dept. of (proposed),
National Defense Act of 1916, 2 3
National Defense Research Council, 5 5 1
Nautilus, 458
Naval Operations, Chief of, 30, 67, 69,
Navy, US.: allocations, 107, 1 2 9 , . ,145,
247, 352, 494; antisub. responsibilities
and activities, 278, 296, 514-53; Comdr.
in Chief, 515, 5 2 2 , 544. (see also
King); controversy over air power vs.
battleship, 18, 2-22, 25-27, 39, 7-71.
598-99, 667; controversy over dloca-
594; controversy over coastal defense
responsibility and techniques, 35, 48,
61-63, 67-71, 117-19, 284-85, 518-26,
53533; controversy over relative pri-
ority of Pacific and ETO, 435-36, 472,
666; defense activities in Atlantic and
Caribbean, 122-25, 147, 157, 159-66,
274-75, 345-49; defense activities in
Pacific, 147, 172-75, 178, 180-81, 183,
190-91, 194-95, 214, 225, 228, 276-77,
41.7, 4199 428-38, 462, 4741 487; Dis-
tricts, 180, 279, 526; engagements in
Pacific, 197, 214, 216, 232, 380, 391-
3 3 2 7 355-54
nautics, 7, 55
20-21, 27-29
158, 2537 265, 5157 5 2 1
tions, 259, 538-40, 542-44. 5471 5-51.
9 2 , 398-997 401-2, 406, 417, 44-42,
447-51, 455-59, 462, 464-70; General
779