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... Army and Navy . In the spring and summer of 1943 , Gen. Henry H. ( Hap ) Arnold , Command- ing General , AAF , directed the formation of formal planning groups in the Headquarters Army Air Forces . These were the Post War Division and ...
... Army and Navy . In the spring and summer of 1943 , Gen. Henry H. ( Hap ) Arnold , Command- ing General , AAF , directed the formation of formal planning groups in the Headquarters Army Air Forces . These were the Post War Division and ...
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... Army Chief of Staff , that the American public would not sustain a large standing army . Moreover , he did not ... Navy as " the first line of defense . " The war had given them the chance to demonstrate the effectiveness of air power . They ...
... Army Chief of Staff , that the American public would not sustain a large standing army . Moreover , he did not ... Navy as " the first line of defense . " The war had given them the chance to demonstrate the effectiveness of air power . They ...
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... Army Kenneth C. Royall ; Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan being sworn in by Chief Justice Fred Vinson 177 Hon . W. Stuart Symington , Secretary of the Air Force , and Gen. Carl Spaatz , Air Force Chief of Staff , announce the new ...
... Army Kenneth C. Royall ; Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan being sworn in by Chief Justice Fred Vinson 177 Hon . W. Stuart Symington , Secretary of the Air Force , and Gen. Carl Spaatz , Air Force Chief of Staff , announce the new ...
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... Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service . After the war , the British army and navy attempted to regain their air arms , but failed . * In retrospect , the RAF's Air Marshal Sir John C. Slessor described this battle to ...
... Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service . After the war , the British army and navy attempted to regain their air arms , but failed . * In retrospect , the RAF's Air Marshal Sir John C. Slessor described this battle to ...
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... Army . The Navy , with its battleships , remained the first line of defense . However , men like Brig . Gen. William ( Billy ) Mitchell , the Army's flamboyant airman of World War I , argued that the airplane was more economical and ...
... Army . The Navy , with its battleships , remained the first line of defense . However , men like Brig . Gen. William ( Billy ) Mitchell , the Army's flamboyant airman of World War I , argued that the airplane was more economical and ...
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70 groups AAF's air arm Air Bd Air Board Air Corps air defense air power Air Staff aircraft Armed Forces Army Air Forces Army and Navy Army Chief Army Ground Forces Arnold Assistant Chief aviation bomber Brig Gen budget Chief of Air Chief of Staff civilian coequal Committee Congress Continental Air Forces coordination Deputy Chief Eaker Eisenhower Forrestal functions Headquarters Henry H Ibid independent Air Force Joint Chiefs Knerr Kuter Lauris Norstad legislation M-day Maj Gen Marshall Memo Military Establishment National Defense naval officers operations organization peacetime personnel policies postwar Air Force postwar planning President recommended reorganization Reserve responsibility Secretary of Defense Secretary of War separate Air Force single department Spaatz Strategic Air Strategic Air Command Stuart Symington subj Tactical Air Command Truman unification United States Air USAF Vandenberg War Department World War II
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Page 291 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 271 - Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1.
Page 277 - Council is to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security...
Page 171 - In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States; to provide for the establishment of integrated policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to the national security...
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Page 278 - President may authorize, subject to such regulations as he may prescribe, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Commerce...
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Page 271 - It shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations on land. It is responsible for the preparation of land forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war except as otherwise assigned and, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for the expansion of the peacetime components of the Army to meet the needs of war.
Page 273 - Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 279 - Government departments and agencies as relate to national security; (2) to make recommendations to the National Security Council for the coordination of such intelligence activities of the departments and agencies of the Government as relate to the national security; (3) to correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to the national security, and provide for the appropriate dissemination of such intelligence within' the Government using where appropriate existing agencies and facilities...