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- p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to
“sweep the Germans from the sky…
- p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with
the ambitious idens of air power which…
- p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was
never equipped during…
- p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are
you in the Army or the Corps…
- p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard
anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
- p. 69 …But one axiom,
with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never-
theless left an open question as to how…
- p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300
aircraft a month. The pattern of…
- p. 122 …the German Air Force, the
Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in
the…
- p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French
factories, the force had never been employed in a…
- p. 140 …into
a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands
of our own forces…
- p. 150 …Long-term needs
of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities
never…
- p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had
never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
- p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown
heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
- p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never-
theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
- p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other
bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
- p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points
have never been satisfactorily explained.
T h e general pattern…
- p. 277 …motors, sole-
noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit-
less search…
- p. 288 …planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the accepted grand…
- p. 303 …the principal features of the plan
were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
- p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was
never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
- p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never
able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
- p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never
returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
- p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining
pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
- p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from
Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
- p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never
before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
- p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been
accomplished, yet now it…
- p. 509 …Island, in the
Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May
the two…
- p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the
aircrews, for on the operational level…
- p. 524 …handicaps under which
AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
- p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that
proper observance of economy of force would never…
- p. 531 …Crews which had
previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these
weapons into…
- p. 544 …But the Japanese never at
any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
- p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into
All told, the record…
- p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com-
mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
- p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the
CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
- p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force
never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
- p. 614 …that reason deserving a high
priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
- p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign-
ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
- p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never
below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
- p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England,
nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
- p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never
before equaled by the military forces of two…
- p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several
had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
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panies engaged in automotive, locomotive, and steel construction. And
in May 1933 the German Air Ministry was established, Goering
assuming the office of Air Minister.“
With the boldness and audacity which characterized the Nazi
regime from the outset, Germany soon threw off all pretense concern-
ing her rearmament, and it became evident that the German Air Force
would have an important role in accomplishing Hider’s plan of terri-
torial aggrandizement. In March 1935 the Germans officially an-
nounced the formation of the Luftwaffe. Goering, who continued to
head the Air Ministry, was made commander in chief of the Luftwaffe
with Erhard Milch as his administrative deputy. T h e “new” air force
was then composed of approximately 1,000 aircraft and some 20,000
officers and men. Its reserve supply of airmen was of course very con-
siderable as a result of the training programs of previous years.
T h e decree of 1935, which officially brought the Luftwaffe into
existence, stipulated that it was to be a third element of the Wehr-
macht, independent of the army and the navy. T h e air force with its
commander, Goering, thus came under the jurisdiction of Gen. Wer-
ner von Blomberg, Minister of Defense and head of the Wehrmacht.
Goering, then reputed to be the second most powerful man in the Nazi
regime, did not enjoy taking orders from von Blomberg, and the
relations between the two men were far from harmonious. Personal
differences, moreover, were reinforced by differing concepts of the
place and role of the air force. Goering wished to make his Luftwaffe
a completely independent organization, in control of its own supplies,
recruiting, communications, and finances. H e wanted to control all
activities which were even remotely related to air, and with such
power he hoped to direct the aircraft industry and the allocation of
personnel to the advantage of the air force. T h e dominant influence
within the Wehrmacht, however, naturally tended to be that of the
old-line general staff of the German army, which strongly opposed the
idea of an absolutely independent air force. Neither the prospect of
competition with it for manpower and materiel nor the idea of com-
plete dependence upon Luftwaff e commanders for air-ground co-op-
eration appealed to the army chiefs. Furthermore, the army remained
for a time less an instrument of the Nazi party than was the Luftwaffe,
and this fact was reported to be reflected to some extent in the attitude
taken on issues raised by the air force.
Leaders of the Luftwaffe advocated a powerful strategic air force in
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