Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, 23, 80, 124, 200 Aero Engine Laboratory, 38 Naval Operation (OPNAV), 20 Naval War College, Newport, 129 Navy, 19, 76, 202, 290, 292-293, 295 and air-cooled engines, 18, 31 and aircraft industry, 23, 52, 65-68, 172, 243, 260-262, 274-278 feuds in, 63 General Mitchell’s attack on, 58-61 growth of, 142 Hawaiian cruise of, 121-125 leadership in, 131-132 Panama maneuvers of, 135-148 procurement for, 66, 187 proposed reduction of, 25-26 public relations for, 291 Navy, and sea power, 129-130 war schedule of, 241 (_See also_ U.S. Navy Department) Navy lend-lease, 252 Navy planes, Boeing fighters, 73, 75, 76, 134, 147 Catalinas, 195 Corsairs, 124, 140, 156, 187, 193, 257-258, 265 C-54’s, 256 F-5-L’s, 84 N-9’s, 43-44, 84, 91 P12’s, 134 SBU’s, 187-191 SC’s, 77-79 T4M’s, 104-106, 134, 140 UO’s, 43, 48, 50, 117 (_See also_ Kinds of aircraft, as Bombers) Nazis, 210-212, 235 NC boats, 22 Nelson, Arvid, 160 Nelson, Donald, 286 Neutrality proclamation, 1939, 221 Neville, Leslie, 270 New Deal, 186 _New Knowledge, The_, 87 New York, New York, 3, 6, 60, 67, 93, 172 New York Central, 282 _New York Times, The_, 149, 270 Niles Tool Company, 51 Nimitz, Chester, 268 Noble, Warren, 33-34 Norden, Raymond A., 306-307 Norfolk Naval Air Station, 119, 121 North American, 194 North American Mustangs, 195 North Island Naval Air Station, 37, 128-129 Northrup, Jack, 169, 191-192, 201-202 Northrup Company, 154 Northrup-Vought fighter plane, 191-193 sold to Japan, 192 Norway, 207 NRA, 273 Nulton, Adm. Louis M., 151-153 Nutt, Arthur, 36, 42 Nye, Gerald P., 181, 187, 263, 271 O Oberammergau, Passion Play at, 7 O’Connell, Joseph J., Jr., 299, 301-302 _Of Flight and Life_, 309 _Old Ark_ (see _Arkansas_) _Omaha_, light cruiser, 136, 140, 143, 145 Oman, C. W. C., 250 OPNAV (_see_ Naval Operation) _Oregon_, 112 P Pacific air bases, 182 Pacific Northwest-Alaska carrier service, nonscheduled, 304 Pacific Overseas Airlines, 303-304 Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, 2, 112 Packard engines, 75, 78-79 Packard Motor Company, 16, 34-35 Palm Beach, Florida, 6 Palm Springs, California, 265, 267 Pan American Airways, 149, 174, 208, 294, 305-307 (_See also_ Clippers) Panama Canal, 1929 maneuvers at, 135-150 Parker, James S., 61 Parkes, John, 171 Parsons, Lt. Ralph M., 23, 38 Passion Play, Oberammergau, 7 Patents, 41-42 Paterson, New Jersey, 29 Patrick, Maj. Gen. Mason M., 168 Patterson, Bill, 255 Patterson, Robert P., 277 Pearl Harbor, 29, 120-121, 125-127, 191, 219, 252, 267-268 Pensacola Naval Air Station, 38, 45, 81-96, 98, 112, 119, 130 Plant depreciation, 225, 227-228 Plevin, M. René, 222, 224 Ploesti oil fields, bombing of, 293