“US Navy”60+ pages
- p. 48 …This navy of the air is to be
expanded until no part of Germany is safe…
- p. 53 …the Navy, and civilian agencies-
the terms “independent,” “separate,” and “united air force” were used
interchangeably…
- p. 60 …n 5 September he
used the recent disaster to the Navy’s dirigible Sheizandoah as an…
- p. 62 …appointed in each of several departments-War, Navy, Commerce-
to supervise aviation.
The Lampert report, published…
- p. 71 …delaying them, so that bombardment had been
used to cut communications and to interfere with the…
- p. 86 …One might suppose that
Douhet, who “really struck the first blow,” was most useful; his work…
- p. 88 …the desired support of the War and Navy
departments. Only two months after the major submitted…
- p. 96 …issues between the Army and
the Navy over the use of aircraft in coastal defense.
Neither…
- p. 105 …The Navy would provide aircraPt for
don, scouting, and patrolling over the sea and for the…
- p. 107 …both the Army and the
Navy for aviation to be used in support of “the Infantry…
- p. 113 …Japanese Air Power
The Japanese air forces, divided into separate army and navy air
arms, had…
- p. 116 …T h e navy, on the other hand, gave
closer attention to the training of all…
- p. 117 …0 single-engine fighter used by both the Japanese army
and navy-was widely known to…
- p. 118 …In comparison with the I 1,000
pilots trained by the US. Army and Navy during…
- p. 120 …In the war against Ethiopia, 1935-36, Italian
bombers gained experience in the use of various…
- p. 125 …Under this arrangement the Luftwaffe, along with the
army and navy, had direct access to the…
- p. 126 …Goering had successfully
opposed the navy's desire for its own separate air arm, and the…
- p. 131 …The
German navy was unable to provide such a guarantee, and, moreover,
it lacked necessary equipment…
- p. 144 …This subject had been under study by the Army arid
Navy for more than a decade…
- p. 146 …even at the expense of speed
and useful load. A few months later Air Corps observers…
- p. 154 …a t best deny us the moral support of the
Royal Navy with its shipyards, and…
- p. 155 …use of a mobile striking
force to intercept an enemy approaching by sea. The Navy had…
- p. 156 …in support of or in lieu of US. Navy
forces against hostile fleet^.'^
In each case…
- p. 162 …announced the arrival on the
island of US. Navy At the suggestion of Iceland, the United…
- p. 170 …AAF and the British, 800 for
the US.Navy.’’’ This would total 60,000 aircraft a…
- p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the
US. Army and Navy…
- p. 179 …In harmony with the general strategy advocated,
US. air forces in the Pacific and Far East…
- p. 180 …For each command, the mission of
the Army (including air forces) and the Navy was described…
- p. 200 …An alert system was in use twenty-four hours
a day, and air operations were carried…
- p. 206 …Scattered
throughout Panama were seven auxiliary airfields, two of which were
ready for immediate use, and…
- p. 218 …Since the
required number of planes represented more heavy bombers than
were then in use in…
- p. 224 …regarding the possibility of using fields
under construction by the Navy a t Palmyra and Samoa…
- p. 225 …I 942.* It devel-
oped that the Navy could not offer assistance in construction until
after…
- p. 228 …MacArthur had requested permission for emer-
gency use of airfields; and negotiations were furthered by conferences…
- p. 243 …This action lasted about an hour.‘ At its end the
Navy had suffered a crushing blow…
- p. 282 …But the US. Navy had been hard hit at Pearl Harbor, the bal-
ance of naval…
- p. 297 …the Secretary of the Navy as to allocation between
the using services. No relative priorities were…
- p. 305 …Army, Navy, and AAF, and similar representatives of the British
services. T h e American members…
- p. 306 …Joint Intelligence Committee, consisted of the directors of intelligence
from the Army, Navy, and AAF, and…
- p. 316 …So far as the Navy is concerned, Admiral King, as you
know, is not only Chief…
- p. 317 …AAF officers were schooled to avoid
use of the term “independent air force,” but in most…
- p. 326 …after 7 December 1941.T h e Navy was responsible for the general
strategic defense of…
- p. 328 …In the absence of adequate preparations, sirens on police cars
were used to warn the people…
- p. 335 …views between the W a r and Navy departments,
and the unsatisfying conjectures advanced by the…
- p. 410 …ready for use; and it had to
be divided between the Army and Navy.
On the…
- p. 424 …Agreements had
been reached for the use of Australian bases in the ferrying of heavy
366
- p. 464 …For inter-island air trans-
port, principal reliance was placed on two Navy PBY’s and…
- p. 489 …In their prior planning, Army and Navy commanders had devoted
scant attention to the problems of…
- p. 495 …Under the joint
Army-Navy plan, approximately 15,000 men of the 37th Division
were to…
- p. 497 …R I 1
precipitated the war, the US. Navy had taken a stand against im-
mediate…
- p. 501 …the end he refused to permit the use of the field at Chu-
chow. But the…
- p. 505 …into thickly settled districts, and
these were used by the Japanese to justify the subsequent execution…
- p. 508 …the S010mons.~~
As early as February, the US. Navy had definite indications of an
enemy offensive…
- p. 509 …The Navy’s lack of knowledge
of these sightings is unexplained.
4-48
- p. 514 …T o be sure, it would be impossible to use
Carrier Division Five, for the Shokaku…
- p. 527 …s and B-24's for naval use in long-range search
and tracking."' Furthermore, he…
- p. 529 …D W A R I 1
planes, useful in covering the northern approaches across the Pacific…
- p. 534 …For the US. forces on Unalaska Island, it represented a loss
of 2 2 , 0 0…
- p. 536 …T h e Japanese navy had
sustained its initial defeats, but the army as yet had…
- p. 588 …Army aircraft might, however, temporarily execute Navy functions
in support of or in lieu of Navy…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Sea W i t c h , 397-98, 484
Secretary of War, 20, 24, 26-28, 70, 1 1 5 ,
131, 134, 140, 157, 178, 180, 260, 271,
314, 328, 3 5 1 , 364, 485,. 548 (see also
Stimson); asst. for aviation, 29, 3 1 ;
Asst. Sec. for Air, 1 1 5 , 352; Second
Asst., 9, 24
Selective Service System, I 10-1 I
Selective Training and Service Act, I I I
Selfridge Field, 613
Semarang, 372
Services of Supply: air priorities func-
tion transferred to ATC, 362; in CBI,
495; organization, 264; in UK, 649-50,
652
Sewn-Mile Airdrome, 477
Seward, 170; Seward-Anchorage area,
Seychelles Is., 3 3 0
SHADOW 82, 578
Shanghai, 78, 2 3 2
Sharnbrook, 650
Shenandoah, 27
Shipping: losses, 39!-54! 515-18, 530,
534-36, 541, 547; priorities, 243; routes,
310-12, 404-5, 536, 548; shortages, 242,
374-757 4247 430. 538, 5473 6401 65'7
65 3
I 68
Shoho, 448-49
Shokaku, 448-49, 451
Short, Lt. Gen. W.C., 175, 180, 192-93
Shortland F., 447
Siemens, Lt. Col. Isaac, 508
Sierra Leone, 320, 329
Signal Corps: Chief Signal Officer, 7-8,
292-93; radar research, 55, 289-90. See
also Air Service; Aviation Sec.
Simard, Capt. C.T., 455-56
Simon, Frank, 5 1
sims, 449
Sinclair, AM Sir Archibald, 592
Sind desert, 496
Singapore, 183-84, 235-36, 242, 3671 4041
4279 4321 504
Sitka, 464.
Sixteen-Liberator project, 327-28
Skyways, 41
Singosari, 377, 379, 383, 394
SLEDGEHAMMER, 564-66, 571-73,
5889 5907 653
Slessor, AVM J.C., 567
Slessor Agreement, 134-35
Sneed, Col. A.L., 421
Soemba I., 372, 385, 390
Soerabaja, 2 3 1 , 371, 383-84, 386-87, 395,
427; Bay, 391
784
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Solomon Is., 183, 410, 419, 425, 44-50,
470-76, 48p, 483; Resident Commis-
sioner (Brit.), 471
Sondre Stromfjord, 641
Soong, T.V., 487
Sotteville. See Rouen.
South Africa, Union of, 331, 494
South African Air Force, 9
South America, 147, 164, 240. See also
Airfields; Caribbean; South Atlantic
route.
South Atlantic air route, 123-24, 228,
South Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 337
South Atlantic Wing (ATC), 363
South China Sea, 209, z I I
Southern Defense Comd., 154
South Pacific air route, 18-83, 192-3,
Soryu,. 458
3 ' 2 , 3'9-421,354-569 3% 38874288,493-94
228-29, 331-329 3367 3 5 9 - 6 0 , 375, 380,
410-16, 419, 428-38, 447, 452-54, 560
South Pacific Area, 444, 454, 469, 473;
established, 419. See also South Pacific
route and specific islands.
South Pacific Wing (ATC),, 363
Southwest Pacific Area: air route via
South Atlantic, 228, 312-13, 328-36,
353-54, 359, 364. 428 (see also South
Pacific route); air service, 421-22, 482;
Allied Forces established, 419-20;
General Hq., 204-5, 208; operations,
397-98, 417, 425, 427, 4 4 6 5 % 48-81;
reinforcements, 227, 3 1 2 , 33637, 372,
376, 384-88, 40% 4087 413-147 452-54,
478, 562, 566; reorganization of bomber
units, 413-14; strategy for, 410-11,
472-74, 574, 576. See also ABDA;
Australia; NEI; Philippine Is.
Soviet Air Force, 79-80, 98, 1 3 3
Soviet protocol, 249
Soviet Union. See U.S.S.R.
Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Carl, 48, 60, 314; Air
Officer, ETOUSA, 591, 649-51, 656,
661, 663, 665; C G AFCC, 560, 614-15;
CG Eighth AF, 565, 570, 574, 582, 585,
587-91, 595, 606-7, 610, 616-17, 621-22,
625, 628, 637-38, 641-43, 645; Chief of
Air Staff, 262
Spanish civil war, 76, 83-84, 487
Spatz, Sgt. H.A., 442
Special Naval Observer Group, 123, 132,
'441 5773 594
Special Observer Group, U.S. Army, 109,
1 2 3 , 1 3 2 , 144, 252, 262, 577-82, 601,
618-20, 634,. 636
Sperry bombsight, 599, 601