“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 I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Piarco airport, 162, 329
PINETREE, 622
Pittsburg, 598
Placentia Bay, 156
Plaines des Gaiacs, 433-34
Plan position indicator scope, 288
Plans, AC/AS, 472
Plans Div. (OCAC), 316
Ploesti oil fields, 341
Podington, 63 I
Pogue, L.W., 361-62
Pohl, Lt. Col. H.B., 331
Point Barrow, 170
Pointe Noire, 3 3 0
Polebrook, 63 I
Polifka, Capt. Karl, 425
Polish Air Force, 89
Portal, ACM Sir Charles, C/AS RAF,
248, 253, 559-60, 566-67, 5737 602, 6231
627, 631, 646, 652
Port Blair, 500
Port Elizabeth, 3 3 1 , 494
Port Hedland, 330-3 I
Portland (Maine), 5 2 3
Port Moresby, 178-79, 182, 184, 384, 386,
408, 41% 414, 416-179 425, 447-5'1 47'-
729 4741 477-80. 483, 504
Port of Spain, 321, 324
Portugal, 3 2 6
Potsdam conference, 2 5 2
Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley, 2 5 3
Poynton, 650
Pratt, Adm. W.V., 30, 61-62, 67
President of US., 20, 23, 6711, 180, 194,
265, 367, 371, 487. See also Coolidge;
Harding; Roosevelt; Wilson.
Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of
attack on Western Hemisphere, 150,
271, 279, 282, 285-86; US-British rela-
tions, 610; World War I, 6, 15
Prestwick, 344, 346, 356, 641, 644-45
Richard, Lt. W.J., 389
Prince of Wales, 232, 377, 438
Priorities, Pacific vs. ETO, 435-36, 472,
Production, 245-50, 666-67; between
wars, 56-57, 106-9; World W a r I, 7-
Production Management, Office of, 106,
Project A (19331, 65-69
Project X, 3 3 2 - 3 6 , 341. See also X, Task
558, 666
10, 16, 37, 5 5
1317 '33
Force.
Prome, 499
Puerto Rico, 120, 123-24, 161-63, 193,
7 8 2
274-75, 282, 3201 324, 3297 3557 4941
534-37
Punta Borinquen, 161
Pursuit aviation: for bomber offensive,
584; as compared to bombardment, 36-
37, 57, 65; designation changed to
"fighter," 307 n; flight across Atlantic,
640; question of UI< defense, 622-23
Pyle, Ernie, 286
Q
Qantas, 375
Queen Elizabeth, 375, 640
Queen Mary, 375
Quonset Point, 340
R
Rabaul, 178-79, 182, 184, 372, 377, 382,
Radar: antisub. equipment, 5 2 5 , 527, 5 3 3 ,
547, 549; British types, 288-91; devel-
opment, 55, 287-89, 293-94; in Hemi-
sphere defense, 152-53, 290-92, 296,
298, 302-3, 307-8, 465-66, 469; in
Pacific, 174, 186, 197, 220, 377, 383-84,
469, 476; training, 295; in UK, 288-91,
625-26
Radiation Laboratory (Mass. Institute of
Technology), 293-94
Radio. See Radar.
386, 408, 4103 413-14, 416-177 419, 427-
283 446-47, 470-741 47'3-81
RAINBOW NO. 5 , 139-41, 144, 147, 184,
190, 204, 2 1 3 , 236, 239, 271, 55% 577-
86, 629, 634
Ramsbury, 648
Randolph Field, 112-13
Ranger, 340
Rangoon, 395, 488-90, 492-93, 500-501,
509-10
Rawls, Lt. D.G., zoo
Reagan, Lt. C.L., 386: 398
Reconnaissance aviation: as a category,
64, 521; operations, 417, 44'3-50, 480;
redesignation of recon. sqs. as bomb.
units, 425
Regia Aeronautica. See Italian Air Force.
Reinforcements. See theaters.
Renault works, 593
Replacement Control Depot, ~ z t h ,615,
648
108-9, 128, 549-51, 604-5
Repulse, 232, 377, 438
Research and development, 54-60, 69,