“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
11s Group Program, 250-51, 560
Opana radar detector station, 197
Operations. See Air Forces; thearers of
operations.
Operations Div. (WDGS), 264, 546, 553,
588, 652. See also WPD.
Ordnance Company (Avn.), 445th,
434
Ordnance depot: in Philippines, 187,
214; in UK, 650
Organization: Air Corps, 2 ~ 3 3 ; Air
Districts, 154; Air Service, 18-29; for
bomber offensive, 575; of commands,
155; consolidation of OCAC with
GHQAF, 3 2 , 114-15; first four air
forces, 1 5 5 ; GHQ Air Force, 31; W D
reorganization (h4ar. 1942), 264-65. See
also AAF; Air Forces.
Ostfriesland, 26
Overrnan Act of 1918, 9
Owen Stanley hits., 408, 416-17, 478,
480
P
P-35, characteristics, 406
P-38: in Alaska, 465; flight to UK, 641-
45; modification, 425
P-39: for Alaska, 465; characteristics, 454,
477; proposed flight to UK, 641-43; in
SWPA, 407, 411, 431
P-40: for Alaska, 465; for British, 634;
characteristics, 231, 401, 405, 454, 4 7 6
77, 488, 490; for China, 339-40, 488;
in SWPA, 384, 393? 396-98, 404-5
4117 4'69 435
P-400, characteristics, 41 I , 432, 477
Pacific Fleet (US.), 137, 19697, 236,
272-73
Pacific Ocean Area, 419, 452
Paco, 214
Padloping I., 346
Palau, 376, 382, 393, 447
Palembang, 379, 383, 388, 391
Palmyra I., 1 2 5 , 180, 430-31, 436
Panair do Brasil, 321
Panama, 66, 1 2 1 , 163, 190, 193
Panama, Declaration of, I 2 I
Panama Canal: danger of attack, 164,
272-73, 275, 2 9 9 , 3 0 1 , 303; defenses,
Panama Canal Dept., 160-64; A x Force,
Panama Canal Zone, defense of, 160-65,
Panama Sea Frontier, 548
123-25, 1477 160, 274, 301-3, 536
I 60
274-76, 3029 369
Pan American Air Ferries, Tnc., 322-24,
Pan American Airways, 172, 3 x - 2 3 , 328-
Pan American Airways-Africa, Ltd.,
Pan American Airways Co., 3 2 2 - 2 3
Panay, 406
P a p , 449, 471; Gulf of, 417
Paranaque, 2 14
Paris Air Agreement, 85
Parsel, Capt. E.L., 215-16
3277 338-407 354
29, 3 3 3 7 335-36, 352-537 ?55-S6* 375
322-249 338, 354
Pasirian, 39j
Patch, Brig. Gcn. A.M., Jr., 433-34
Patrick. hlai. Gen. M.h4.: Chief of Air
Corps, 22: 24; Chief of Air Service,
1 1 , 26-28
Patterson Field (Iceland), 344, 346
Pattcrson Field (Ohio), 358, 484
PRY: characteristics, 414, 456-57, 461; in
Pearl Harbor, 1 2 5 , 173, 194-2017 452, 464;
Pacific, 338, 432, 435, 458, 465-68
investigation, 2 6 2
PcarY > 391-93
Pecos, 398-99
Peirse, AM Sir R.E.C., 370-71
Pell, Rlaj. Floyd, 385, 393, 3 9 6
Pennsylvania Central airline, 358
Pensacola, 1 9 2 , 225
Peres, Lt. J.R., 393
Permanent Joint Board on Defense
Perrin, Col. E.S., 399, 420
Perry, Lt. E.S., 393
Pershing, Gen. J.J., 7, 1 0 - 1 1 , 2 3 , 37, 43-
Persian Gulf, 325-26, 338-39
Personnel problems: Air Service, 19;
shortages, 110, 330. See also Labor;
Morale.
Perth, 396, 399, 411
Peru, 301
Philippine Air Force, 203, 219
Philippine Airlines, 375
Philippine Army, 186
Philippine Dept. Air Force, 177, 2 0 3
Philippine Is., 125-26, 134, 147, 235-36,
36748, 377, 380-81, 395, ,417, 425-27,
450, 471; advance warning, ~go-gr;
defense, 175-3, 201-20; reinforcement,
353-54, 404-10, 428, 562; Royce mls-
sion, 418; US. High Commissioner,
190; withdrawal of US. troops, 2 2 0 -
33
(Canada-US.), 1 2 1 , 126, 298
44. 258
1837 223, 227-321 239, 242, 3 1 2 , 3!61
Photo reconnaissance, 189-90, 425, 624
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