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Breaking the Ice
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This type of organization functions as a branch of another military organization.
What is Auxiliary?
100
1st Lt Russell Maughan’s flight from New York to San Francisco prove this.
What is if the country were attacked, airplanes could fly in one day to defend the area under attack?
100
The is the reason the change from the Army Air Service to Army Air Corps was significant.
What is "the corps could conduct independent missions"?
100
Army Air Corps officers focussed on this in the 1930s.
What is Aircraft development?
100
They were the biggest proponent of keeping the Air Corps in the Army.
What is the Army General Staff?
200
This type of action resulted in the creation of the Army Air Service in 1918.
What is a presidential executive order?
200
This is the term for a military supply such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.
What is ordnance?
200
This is a branch or department of the armed forces that has a specialized function.
What is a Corps?
200
The Army Air Corps held a design competition for a multiengine bomber in 1935. This aircraft manufacturer won the competition.
Who is Boeing?
200
Objectors to an independent Air Force viewed air power as this.
What is "no more than long-range artillery"?
300
Congress cut back on this after World War I.
What is Defense spending?
300
This was not a recommendation made by the Morrow Board in 1925.
What is allocate funds directly for air power?
300
President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke about this to Congress on 12 January 1939.
What is the need to rebuild the US military?
300
After a new bomber entered the US arsenal in 1935, what did the Army realize it now needed
What is better pursuit planes?
300
The General Headquarters Air Force (GHQ) answered to this organization.
What is the Army?
400
He launched a major public relations campaign for an air force independent of the Army and Navy.
Who is Brig Gen Billy Mitchell?
400
The Air Corps Act become law in this year.
What is 1926?
400
This was a significant step in increasing the number of pilots available to the Army Air Corps.
What are Civilian flight schools, acceptance of black pilots, and the training of Civilian reserve pilots (only need one)?
400
The Army Air Corps become the Army Air Forces in this year.
What is 1941?
400
He was the senior (commanding) officer of the General Headquarters Air Force.
Who is Brig Gen Frank Andrews?
500
This event in 1921 convinced the Navy to build aircraft carriers.
What is the sinking of the German battleship Ostfriesland?
500
He is sometimes called “the father of US Air Force precision bombing”.
Who is Col Ulysses S. Nero?
500
He helped bring about the all-black 99th Pursuit Squadron of Tuskegee, Alabama.
Who is Senator Harry Truman?
500
Advocates for an independent Air Force used this argument.
What is "As part of the Army, air power would remain underfunded and underdeveloped"?
500
These occurrences were witnessed during the years between World War I and World War II.
What is a growth spurt in the Air Corps, major advances in bombers and pursuit aircraft, and increasing fear of war (only need one)?