TSgT PDG exam questions with answers

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General Henry "Hap" Arnold - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First
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Commanding General of the Army Air Force? |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Air War Planning Document - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Doctrinal
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blueprint provided the conceptual framework for the American air
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effort in World War 2. Reflected 1930s Air Corp Tactical School
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doctrine of using massive force to destroy the enemy's will and
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capability to fight through long-range strategic bombardment
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Operation PointBlank - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Combined |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


American precision daylight bombing and British night area
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bombing. Formed by the Casablanca Directive of January 1943.
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General Spaatz and the Mighty Eighth - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Conducted the first American Operational bombing mission on |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


17 August 1942 in Rouen, France.
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Black Thursday - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Bombing of Schweinfurt
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ball bearing Factories that resulted in the lost of 60 Bombers on
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14 October 1943. Ended unescorted bombing campaign
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Carpetbaggers - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔5th Bombardment Wing, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


Twelfth Air Force group saved hundreds of downed aircrews
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trapped behind enemy lines |\ |\ |\

,Operation Argument - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔operation of
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winning air superiority by destroying German aircraft
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manufacturing plants |\




Combined Bomber Offensive - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Longest
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and bloodiest air campaign in history
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Sergeant Sandy Sanchez - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Flew 44
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missions (19 more than required) as a gunner with the 95th
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Bomb Group. Died during on last Nazi oil refinery on 15 March
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1945. Only enlisted men with B17 named for him.
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Paul Airey - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First Chief Master Sergeant of
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the Air Force. First recipient of The Air Force POW medal
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99th Fighter Squadron - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First Members of
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the Tuskegee Airmen
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Lieutenant Col. James Doolittle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Led 16
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bombers on a raid against Tokyo, Kobe, and Nagoya.. Caused
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little damage but shocked the Japanese and cheered the
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American public. Received the Medal of Honor and promotion to
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brigadier general. |\




Corporal John D. Foley - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Shot down
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several Japanese enemy aircraft
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, The Battle of Coral Sea - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The first naval
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battle fought entirely by Air
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The Battle of Midway - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔U.S Navy pilots
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sank four Japanese Carriers and turn tide of the war in the Pacific
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Major General George C. Kenney - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔assumed command of the Fifth Air Force in July 1942 |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




William H. Turner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Planned and
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Supervised the ferringf of 650,000 tons of supplies across the
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Himalayas to Chinese and American forces in the China-Burma-
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India Theater.
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Thursday - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1st Air Commando Group
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provided assistance to British Chindit forces conducting long
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range penetration missions against the Japanese. Also conducted
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the first helicopter combat rescue.
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Operation Matterhorn - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔General Arnold Air
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operation against Japan
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Post wartime strength - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔dwindled from
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79,000 aircraft and 2.4 million people to 24,000 aircraft and
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304,000