“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
Board, 20; joint and combined col-
laboration, 28-29, 155, 163-64, 167-68,
2 3 1 , 254-56, 266, 4287 435-38; 462, 473-
74, 48?, 566-67 (see also Joint Chiefs;
Combined Chiefs) ; Naval Air Trans-
port Service, 352; hTaval Transporta-
tion Service, 256; Patrol Wings, 184,
28, 131, 247, 284-85, 548-49; scientific
agencies, 5 5 1 ; Task Force ANZAC,
413. See also Special Naval Observer
191, 366, 454, 465, 468; Sec. of, 20,
GP.
Near East, 3 3 0
Negros, 406
Neosho, 449
Netherlands, 180, 240, 658-59
Netherlands East Indies: collaboration in
defense of Australia and New Guinea,
419-20, 478; defense facilities, 224, 230-
32, 371-72, 383-84, 3873 392, 394; de-
fense plans and operations, 180-84, 2 0 1 ,
213, 226, 231, 235-36, 242-43, 366-96,
484-85; evacuation of Java, 394-404,
408, 427; ferrying, 327-28, 338, 359
Neuberger, R.L., 271
Neutrality Act, 128, 2 7 2
Nevada, 197
New Britain, 178-79, 3 7 2 , 382, 425, 472-
New Brunswick, 347
New Caledonia, 181, 183, 192, 2 2 8 , 242-
437 3 3 ' 7 3599 3757 419, 430-377 4447
4477 47'
743 476, 489
New Caledonia Task Force, 433
New Delhi, 496
Newfoundland: defense, 156-57, 193, 345,
5.14, 535; in Eastern Theater of Opera-
uons, 294; in ferrying and air trans-
645; lease of bases, 120-21
port, 155, 313, 317-18, 342-43, 347,
Newfoundland Airport, 1 2 2 , 156-57, 5 1 5
Newfoundland Base Comd., 156
New Guinea, 178-79, 182-84, 372, 384,
395, 408, 4107 4167 419, 4259 4509 470-
83
New Guinea Force, 421
New Hebrides, 410, 435, 447, 471
New Ireland, 372, 382, 450, 474
N e w Jersey, 26
New Orleans, 317
New South Wales, 422-23
New York City, 279-80, 293-94, 356,
New Zealand, 18-81, 242-43, 419, 430,
Ngoro, 386, 391, 394, 398
526-27
432, 436. See also Royal NZAF.
780
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Nichols Field, 177, 186, 203, 207, 209,
213-14, 218-19, 223, 405, 418
Nielson, Lt. C.J., 4 4 2
Nielson Field, 207-8, 214, 219, 405
Nigeria, 320, 324, 354
Night fighters, 578, 634
Nimitz, Adm. C.W., 403, 419, 452, 454,
Nome, 169, 358
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 194
Norden, C.L., 598
Norden bombsight, 439, 598-601
Norfolk (England), 646
North African invasion, 240, 560, 573
North African military mission, 325-26,
497
North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier,
521-23, 526
North Atlantic route: defense, 155-60,
171; ferrying and air transport, 316-19,
North Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 344, 349
North Atlantic Wing (ATC), 349, 363
Northeast Air District, 577
Northeast Airlines, 347, 356
Northeastern Defense Comd., 154
Northern Ireland, 140, 239-40, 243, 375,
4627 464
327, 342-497 356-571 626, 639-45
43% 560, 562, 5789 580, 586, 627-289
63-31, 634, 638, 648, 650
Northern Territory, 42 I
North Honshu, 464
Northland, 345
North Pacific Area, 419
ATorthwest Airlines, 357-58
Northwestern, 467
Noumea, 433
0
Oahu, 125, 234, 462; attack, 194-201;
Oakley, 627
Observation plane, as category, 57, 65
O'Donnell, M a j . Emmett, Jr., 178, 189,
O'Donnell Field, 186
Oestreichcr, Lt. R. G., 393
Oklahoma, 197
Old, Col. W.D., 498, 5 0 2
Old Catton, 646
Olds, Brig. Gen. Robert, 316, 364, 507
Oliver, Col. R.C., 509
Olongapo, 2 19
Ominato, 464
Ioo-octane gasoline supply, 230, 378
strength (1941), 170-75
215-16
%den, 358