The Army and Its Air Corps: Army Policy toward Aviation, 1919-1941DIANE Publishing |
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Aeronautics air arm Air Service Air University aircraft airmen airplanes airpower American argued Army Air Corps Army and Navy Army leaders Army’s Arnold attack August Baker bill Billy Mitchell Bingham bombers bombing Brig Gen budget Central Decimal Files chief of staff coast coastal defense Coco Solo command Cong Congress Congressional Coolidge Douglas MacArthur Eaker expensive February Fechet fleet flight flying Foulois and Glines Futrell Gen Charles Gen George GHQ Air Force Hap Arnold History Hurley Ibid January Joint Board Killigrew Lampert Committee Lassiter letter Maj Gen Malin Craig March Mason McClendon memo memorandum Menoher Menoher Board military aviation Mitchell’s Mooney and Layman Morrow Board Mount Shasta national defense naval Navy Journal Navy’s October officers operations Patrick MSS Pershing Pershing MSS pilots planes Plans Division Pratt problem pursuit Roosevelt Secretary of War September 1925 Summerall tion USAF Historical War Department Washington York
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Pagina 185 - He picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world.
Pagina 145 - I believe that the future security of our nation is dependent upon an adequate Air Force. This is true at the present time and will become increasingly important as the science of aviation advances and the airplane lends itself more and more to the art of warfare. I am convinced that the required Air Force can be more rapidly organized, equipped, and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm.
Pagina 145 - ... airplane lends itself more and more to the art of warfare. I am convinced that the required air force can be more rapidly organized, equipped and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm. If complete separation is not the desire of the committee, I recommend an air force as a part of the Army but with a separate budget, a separate promotion list and removed from the control of the General Staff. These are my sincere convictions. Failing either,...
Pagina 39 - These accidents are the direct results of the incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the National Defense by the Navy and War Departments.
Pagina 55 - Service. We submit the following recommendations : (1) To avoid confusion of nomenclature between the name of the Air Service and certain phases of its duties, we recommend that the name be changed to Air Corps. The distinction between service rendered by air troops in their auxiliary role and that of an air force acting alone on a separate mission is important.
Pagina 3 - Baker used to sit at his desk at the War Department with one leg curled up under him on the cushion of his chair. On his desk there was always a fresh pansy, and he continually smoked a pipe. A small man physically, Baker looked boyish in the company of the tall and bulky generals who were usually around him.
Pagina 54 - The situation had not developed. Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water before he had to commit himself upon issues not well defined. It seems to me public administrators would get along better if they would restrain the impulse to butt in or be dragged into trouble. They should remain silent until an issue is reduced to its lowest terms, until it boils down to something like a moral issue.
Pagina 88 - ... experience. There is no short cut to the peculiar type of knowledge and ability they must possess. Trained officers constitute the most vitally essential element in modern war, and the only one that under no circumstances can be improvised or extemporized.
Pagina 149 - The Chief of Staff of the Army and the Chief of Naval Operations...
Pagina 171 - Arnold wrote that the president had said that "the United States must be prepared to resist attack on the western hemisphere from the North Pole to the South Pole, including all of North America and South America...