The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

“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 + See below, p. 493. 34'
• 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…