TSgt PDG Exam Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions 2025
General Henry "Hap" Arnold - ✔✔First Commanding General of the Army Air Force?
Air War Planning Document - ✔✔Doctrinal blueprint provided the conceptual framework for the
American air effort in World War 2. Reflected 1930s Air Corp Tactical School doctrine of using massive
force to destroy the enemy's will and capability to fight through long-range strategic bombardment
Operation PointBlank - ✔✔Combined American precision daylight bombing and British night area
bombing. Formed by the Casablanca Directive of January 1943.
General Spaatz and the Mighty Eighth - ✔✔Conducted the first American Operational bombing mission
on 17 August 1942 in Rouen, France.
Black Thursday - ✔✔Bombing of Schweinfurt ball bearing Factories that resulted in the lost of 60
Bombers on 14 October 1943. Ended unescorted bombing campaign
Carpetbaggers - ✔✔5th Bombardment Wing, Twelfth Air Force group saved hundreds of downed
aircrews trapped behind enemy lines
Operation Argument - ✔✔operation of winning air superiority by destroying German aircraft
manufacturing plants
Combined Bomber Offensive - ✔✔Longest and bloodiest air campaign in history
Sergeant Sandy Sanchez - ✔✔Flew 44 missions (19 more than required) as a gunner with the 95th Bomb
Group. Died during on last Nazi oil refinery on 15 March 1945. Only enlisted men with B17 named for
him.
Paul Airey - ✔✔First Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. First recipient of The Air Force POW medal
,99th Fighter Squadron - ✔✔First Members of the Tuskegee Airmen
Lieutenant Col. James Doolittle - ✔✔Led 16 bombers on a raid against Tokyo, Kobe, and Nagoya..
Caused little damage but shocked the Japanese and cheered the American public. Received the Medal of
Honor and promotion to brigadier general.
Corporal John D. Foley - ✔✔Shot down several Japanese enemy aircraft
The Battle of Coral Sea - ✔✔The first naval battle fought entirely by Air
The Battle of Midway - ✔✔U.S Navy pilots sank four Japanese Carriers and turn tide of the war in the
Pacific
Major General George C. Kenney - ✔✔assumed command of the Fifth Air Force in July 1942
William H. Turner - ✔✔Planned and Supervised the ferringf of 650,000 tons of supplies across the
Himalayas to Chinese and American forces in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Thursday - ✔✔1st Air Commando Group provided assistance to British Chindit forces conducting long
range penetration missions against the Japanese. Also conducted the first helicopter combat rescue.
Operation Matterhorn - ✔✔General Arnold Air operation against Japan
Post wartime strength - ✔✔dwindled from 79,000 aircraft to 24,000 aircraft
and 2.4 million people to 304,000
The National Security Act of 1947 - ✔✔Established a separate and independent Department of the Air
Force
Stuart Symington - ✔✔The first Secretary of the Air Force
, General Carl A. Spaatz - ✔✔The first Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Air Force Rank Change of 1952 - ✔✔Removed Army rank system and replaced it with Airman Basic,
Airman Third Class, Airman Second Class, and Airman First Class
The Berlin Crisis - ✔✔Awakened Americans to the Impact of the Cold War between the U.S and the
Soviet Union.
Berlin Airlift- Maintenance - ✔✔Critical to the success of the airlift
Lockheed P-80 - ✔✔The Air Force first operational jet Fighter
Charles "Chuck" Yeager - ✔✔First man to break the sound Barrier
The Teapot Committee - ✔✔Convened by Trevor Gardner to examine the field of long-range missile.
The National Reconnaissance Office - ✔✔Created in 1960, Formed to take charged of highly classified
reconnaissance satellites.
Corona - ✔✔Classified satellite photo reconnaissance program, publically known as the discoverer
research program. Heralded the beginning of America's space-based photo reconnaissance capability
Operation Farmgate - ✔✔covert deployment of the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron (Jungle Jim)
to train the South Vietnamese Air Force
Operation Barrel Roll - ✔✔A show of Force by President Johnson, Attacked communist forces in Lao's
after the attack of USS Maddox
General Henry "Hap" Arnold - ✔✔First Commanding General of the Army Air Force?
Air War Planning Document - ✔✔Doctrinal blueprint provided the conceptual framework for the
American air effort in World War 2. Reflected 1930s Air Corp Tactical School doctrine of using massive
force to destroy the enemy's will and capability to fight through long-range strategic bombardment
Operation PointBlank - ✔✔Combined American precision daylight bombing and British night area
bombing. Formed by the Casablanca Directive of January 1943.
General Spaatz and the Mighty Eighth - ✔✔Conducted the first American Operational bombing mission
on 17 August 1942 in Rouen, France.
Black Thursday - ✔✔Bombing of Schweinfurt ball bearing Factories that resulted in the lost of 60
Bombers on 14 October 1943. Ended unescorted bombing campaign
Carpetbaggers - ✔✔5th Bombardment Wing, Twelfth Air Force group saved hundreds of downed
aircrews trapped behind enemy lines
Operation Argument - ✔✔operation of winning air superiority by destroying German aircraft
manufacturing plants
Combined Bomber Offensive - ✔✔Longest and bloodiest air campaign in history
Sergeant Sandy Sanchez - ✔✔Flew 44 missions (19 more than required) as a gunner with the 95th Bomb
Group. Died during on last Nazi oil refinery on 15 March 1945. Only enlisted men with B17 named for
him.
Paul Airey - ✔✔First Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. First recipient of The Air Force POW medal
,99th Fighter Squadron - ✔✔First Members of the Tuskegee Airmen
Lieutenant Col. James Doolittle - ✔✔Led 16 bombers on a raid against Tokyo, Kobe, and Nagoya..
Caused little damage but shocked the Japanese and cheered the American public. Received the Medal of
Honor and promotion to brigadier general.
Corporal John D. Foley - ✔✔Shot down several Japanese enemy aircraft
The Battle of Coral Sea - ✔✔The first naval battle fought entirely by Air
The Battle of Midway - ✔✔U.S Navy pilots sank four Japanese Carriers and turn tide of the war in the
Pacific
Major General George C. Kenney - ✔✔assumed command of the Fifth Air Force in July 1942
William H. Turner - ✔✔Planned and Supervised the ferringf of 650,000 tons of supplies across the
Himalayas to Chinese and American forces in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Thursday - ✔✔1st Air Commando Group provided assistance to British Chindit forces conducting long
range penetration missions against the Japanese. Also conducted the first helicopter combat rescue.
Operation Matterhorn - ✔✔General Arnold Air operation against Japan
Post wartime strength - ✔✔dwindled from 79,000 aircraft to 24,000 aircraft
and 2.4 million people to 304,000
The National Security Act of 1947 - ✔✔Established a separate and independent Department of the Air
Force
Stuart Symington - ✔✔The first Secretary of the Air Force
, General Carl A. Spaatz - ✔✔The first Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Air Force Rank Change of 1952 - ✔✔Removed Army rank system and replaced it with Airman Basic,
Airman Third Class, Airman Second Class, and Airman First Class
The Berlin Crisis - ✔✔Awakened Americans to the Impact of the Cold War between the U.S and the
Soviet Union.
Berlin Airlift- Maintenance - ✔✔Critical to the success of the airlift
Lockheed P-80 - ✔✔The Air Force first operational jet Fighter
Charles "Chuck" Yeager - ✔✔First man to break the sound Barrier
The Teapot Committee - ✔✔Convened by Trevor Gardner to examine the field of long-range missile.
The National Reconnaissance Office - ✔✔Created in 1960, Formed to take charged of highly classified
reconnaissance satellites.
Corona - ✔✔Classified satellite photo reconnaissance program, publically known as the discoverer
research program. Heralded the beginning of America's space-based photo reconnaissance capability
Operation Farmgate - ✔✔covert deployment of the 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron (Jungle Jim)
to train the South Vietnamese Air Force
Operation Barrel Roll - ✔✔A show of Force by President Johnson, Attacked communist forces in Lao's
after the attack of USS Maddox
