“Nevers”44 pages
- 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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
In the Scandinavian and western campaigns which followed during
the first half of 1940, the Luftwaffe continued to perform with skill
and success its established missions. The German invasion of Norway
was swiftly executed in April 1940 with an excellent demonstration
of airborne operations and of the potentialities of air power in con-
trolling limited sea lanes. The Luftwaffe employed some 800 tactical
planes in the brief campaign, while an additional 250 to 300 transport
aircraft operated between Germany, Denmark, and Norway to estab-
lish air bases in a record time a t strategic points in Norway. Recon-
naissance and sea rescue work also figured in Luftwaffe operations.
The badly outnumbered Norwegian air forces could offer only slight
resistance.
The western campaign, which began on 1 0 May 1940,saw the con-
tinued success of the German forces as they sped across the Low
Countries and France. T w o air fleets of the Luftwaffe, comprising
some 3,000 planes, were more than sufficient to wipe out the weak
air opposition of the invaded countries and to provide support for
German army forces. For the first time, German parachute troops
were successfully employed when the Nazi forces invaded Holland.
The Netherlands army ceased formal resistance within four days.
Leading the rapidly advancing Panzer divisions through the Low
Countries, the Stukas bombed troop concentrations and installations
of the defending forces, while German transport aircraft evacuated
many of the wounded and carried supplies to air force units which
quickly moved into bases in southern Belgium and northern France.
Most of the German air effort during May was directed toward close
support of the army forces as they raced toward the Channel ports.
At Dunkirk the Luftwaff e momentarily yielded supremacy to the
RAF, which was able to gain the local air superiority necessary to
allow most of the battered British Expeditionary Force to be evacu-
ated from the port. The Luftwaffe then turned to completion of the
drive against France, which proved to be a not very difficult task.”
The French Air Force, in particular, was ill prepared for the Ger-
man ~ n s l a u g h t . ~ ~It had failed to fulfil the promise which it exhibited
during the years immediately after World War I, when France had
spent large sums on her air force and had been a leader in the field
of aviation. A separate air ministry was established in 1928, but lack
of continuity in leadership resulted from frequent changes in the
French cabinet. With nine changes in the position of air minister
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