Curtiss-Wright, 153-156, 191, 230 (_See also_ Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Wright Martin) Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, 172 D Davis, Art, 141 Davis, Bill, 150 Davison, F. Trubee, 104, 168 Dayton, Ohio, 23, 34 (_See also_ Wright Field) de Chevalier, Godfrey de Courcelles, 5, 21, 268 Defense Plant Corporation, 253 de Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd., 171 DH’s, 15, 17, 110 de la Verne Machine Shop, 17 Delco Company, 39 Demobilization, 277 Dennison, Arthur C., 62 Depression, 163, 220 DESRONS (_see_ Destroyer squadrons) de Steiguer, Adm. Louis R., 121 Destroyer Squadrons (DESRONS), 130, 140 _Detroit_, cruiser, 145-146 Detroit, Michigan, 134 Dexter, Mrs., 229-230 Diamond, Jimmy, 42 Dickinson, Arnold, 173, 175 Diesel engines, 197 Dive bombers, 147, 193 Corsairs as, 258 monoplane, 190, 198 two-seat, 188-190 Dive bombing, 121, 123, 193 Donaldson, John W., 267 Donaldson, Postmaster General, 299-300 Doolittle, Jimmy, 98, 214 Douglas, Don, 47, 97-98, 194, 198, 201-202, 251, 255, 265, 267-268 Douglas, Lt. Robert, 106-107 Douglas transports, DC-3’s, 194, 207 DC-4’s, 194, 256 Douhet, General Jiulio, 10, 206, 212 Douhet doctrine, 206, 293 DuBose, Lieutenant Commander, 62, 68, 71 Duralumin, 78, 155, 165 Durant, William F., 61 Durham, J. A., 307 E East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, 126 East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 269 East Haddam Fish and Game Club, 198 East Hartford, Connecticut, 192, 234 Eastern Airlines, 298, 301-302 Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 292 Echols, Gen. Oliver P., 286-287 Eclipse Machine Company, 41 Edgar, Graham, 42 Egtvedt, Claire, 48, 76, 134, 185, 200 Engineering, 2, 8 intuitive, 177 and politics, 19 _Engineering Thermodynamics_, 3 Engineers, professional, 3, 177 Engines (_see_ Airplane engines) England (_see_ Great Britain) _English Voyages, The_, 288 Ethyl Corporation, 42 Ethylene glycol, 197 Export permits, 189-190 F Fagan, Tom, 39, 42 Fairchild Aviation Corporation, 273 Farley, James, 181 Farmington, Long Island, 195, 199 Fechet, Jim, 134 Feldstein, M. J., 307 Fighter bombers, 134, 147, 193-194 long-range, 195 Fighter planes, 22, 73, 75-76, 99, 121-124, 127, 134, 140, 147, 191-192, 194, 195 single seat, 199 two-seated, 123, 187-188 Finland, 208 Finletter, Thomas K., 289-290 Finletter Board, 290, 293-294 Finletter Board, report of, 293-294 Fireside chat, on airplane production program, 229,233 Fisher, Paul, 296 Five freedoms, 294 Fleet, Reuben, 43, 195, 202, 250 FLEET AIR (_see_ Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet) Fletcher, Adm. Frank J., 61 _Flight Manual_, 87, 98 Flying boats, 248-249 Flynn, “Tiny,” 252 Fokker, Anthony, 43, 47, 95 Fokker Universal, 96 Ford, Edsel, 239 Ford, Henry, 96, 256