“United Press”36 pages
- p. 2 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOPRESS, CHICAGO8
LONDON
The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Canada
Copyright 1948 by…
- p. 48 …An Associated Press dispatch of 10 October gave a contemporary
judgment of the importance of this…
- p. 55 …Air Service (Corps) found it difficult to press vigorously for reorgani-
zation and, by default, leadership…
- p. 56 …In 1919the W a r Department was pressing
for a drastic revision of the military establishment…
- p. 61 …It held that
there was no danger of an air attack on the United States and…
- p. 64 …GHQ Air Forcq a trial than to press for more radical measures,
and Howell’s group…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 98 …based air operations in defense of the United States
and its overseas posses~ions.’~T w…
- p. 99 …General Westover’s report concluded that “all Air Force units could
be concentrated on either coast…
- p. 130 …the Admiralty began to press for control of naval
air units, while the army attempted to…
- p. 149 …basic and advanced Responsibility for crew and unit train-
ing was vested in the GHQ Air…
- p. 164 …A m y air units in the
Territory existed primarily for the defense of this and…
- p. 176 …no military alliances
were made which would commit the United States to war; the plans
only…
- p. 278 …There were also grounds for hoping that heavy
bomber units now based on Darwin might increase…
- p. 285 …From 1938 the United
States had invoked sanctions against Japan in the form of moral em…
- p. 287 …Over-all Strategy and
lmmediate Deployment
On 2 2 December, the press announced dramatically the arrival…
- p. 289 …ground units sent
in that direction were not destined for immediate combat. No major
invasion of…
- p. 323 …Seizure of bases in Canada or Mexico for later attacks on the United States.
Capture of…
- p. 366 …United state^,^ and the British them-
selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units…
- p. 380 …Upon the request of the Ferrying Command, the State Depart-
ment again pressed for an answer…
- p. 397 …the summer and fall, first as the United States Middle
East Air Force and later as…
- p. 430 …Attempts had been
made to replace these obsolete craft by purchase from the United
States, but…
- p. 440 …But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no
opportunity to get set. The…
- p. 463 …personnel that would be reassigned to infantry units whose rosters
already included many representatives of the…
- p. 552 …pines and more recently of American air units operating in the
Netherlands East Indies, he was…
- p. 560 …Moreover, examination proved
that most of the basic equipment of the units, including badly needed
trucks…
- p. 563 …Grady arrived from the
United States for a comprehensive survey of Indian resources with
reference to…
- p. 564 …TO C H I N A
graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to
make high…
- p. 607 …Thus the AAF units engaged in the anti-U-boat war became
almost a t once…
- p. 628 …Army air bombardment units would operate
offensively in collaboration with the Royal Air Force, primarily
against…
- p. 658 …was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air
units initially based there were to…
- p. 683 …of the units of the infant Eighth until their departure for the United
Kingdom several months…
- p. 691 …The RAF proposed that American fighter units be integrated with
its own under a plan eventually…
- p. 748 …533.) By 1928he was
(Patrick, United States in the Air, pp.
190-91.)
38. Charges of…
- p. 770 …y.W D Press Release, 2 1 June 1941.
9 1 . AR 95-5, 3a.
92…
- p. 857 …Presque Isle, 344, 347-49, 641, 644-45
Press comment: B-17, 662-63; danger of…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Watton, 650 .
Wau, 408, 477-78
Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald, 143, 2 3 1 ,
Weather: Alaska, 168-69, 465-66; India,
509, 5 1 2 ; Java, 3 9 , 400; North At-
lantic, 344-48, 644-45; South Pacific,
417; stations, 126, 1 5 5 , 157, 167, 344-48;
UK, 625, 639, 656-57, 661
Webster, Lt. J.J., 199
Weeks, Sec. of War J.W., 27
Welch, Lt. G.S., 199
Wemyss, Gen. Sir Colville, 2 5 3
West Coast: defense, 154, 167, 169-70,
190, 278, 280-81, zgo-92, 294-96, 298-
99; exposed position, 271-73, 277, 280;
staging bases, 336
Western Air Lines, 358
Western Defense Comd., 190, 264, 279,
284, 643; Alaska, reinforcement, 167-
70, 303-9; defense measures, 293-99;
designated as theater of operations, 277,
294, 3 0 3 ; established, 154
64-65
243, 367-713 391, 396-977 4079 5 0 2
West Palm Beach, 337
Westover, Maj. Gen. Oscar, 31-32, 50,
Westover Field, 523, 5 3 1 , 641
W e s t Virginia, 197
Wheeler, Brig. Gen. Raymond, 495
Wheeler Field, 170-71, 198-99
Wheless, Lt., 2 1 9
Whipple, 398
White, Lt., 467
Whitehorse, 357
Whiteman, Pilot G.A., 199
WIDEWING, 645
Wiecks, Lt. Max R., 393
Wiggins, G / C C.S., 420
Wilbur, Sec. of Navy Curtis, 20
Wilhelmshaven, 600
Williams, Pfc G.B., 2 1 2
Williamstown, 424
Willis, Maj. H.B., 3 3 1
Willltie, Wendell, 2 8 5
Wilmington, 523, 613
Wilson, Pres. Woodrow, 9, 23, 75
I N W O R L D W A R 1 1
Windward Is., 193
Wings:
1st Bomb. Wing, 646
2d Bomb. Wing, 646
13th Composite Wing, 161-62
14th Pursuit Wing, 170
18th Bomb. Wing, 170
18th Composite Wing, 171
19th Wing, 160
23d Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
27th Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
50th Transport Wing, 360
World W a r I, operations, I 1-16
Wright Field, 55
Wurtsmith, Lt. Col. P.B., 412, 476
Wyndham, 408
x
X, Task Force, 560, 613 n
Y
Yakutat, 169, 464
Yamamoto, Adm., 446, 451, 456, 459,
Yamato, 456, 461
Yamishiro, z 16
Yankee Doodle, 662
YB-40 and -41, destroyer escort planes,
Yokohama, 442
Yokosuka, 442
York, Capt. E.J., 439, 4 4 2
York area, 582
Yorkshire, 630
Yorktown, 417, 447-49, 456
Yunnanyi, 498
Yushan, 440, 444
469-70
604
2
Zero, characteristics, 79
Zuiho, 469
Zuikaku, 448-49, 451
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