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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…
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
the movement of aircraft and fuel trucks an impediment to the con-
tractor's job. Both training and construction activities suffered from
the discomforts incident to new communities, as a field became alter-
nately a dust bowl or a morass with each change in Primi-
tive living conditions, makeshift classrooms, and overcrowded shops
remained characteristic of the whole of the prewar expansion period.
But construction, if rarely ahead of schedule, managed somehow to
meet increasing needs.
While the Air Corps was expanding it was undergoing, as well,
changes in organization and administrative structure. Inasmuch as the
organizational developments followed a somewhat circuitous course,
they sometimes tended to intensify, rather than assuage, the growing
pains of the Army air arm. T o the degree that these changes moved
toward greater autonomy, however, they did aid in simplifying com-
mand channels and delimiting responsibilities more sharply. T h e proc-
ess did not, in the period 1939-41, go far enough to satisfy those in
the Air Corps who had long desired independence; but as we drew
closer to war the air arm was able to assume an increasing share in
the determination of its own policies.
At the beginning of 1939, the Army air establishment still was or-
ganized into two correlative but independent elements," the Air Corps
and the GHQ Air Force-the one charged with materiel and training
functions, the other primarily with combat operations. With the
inauguration of the expansion program, the need for a closer co-
ordination and a centralized control became more pronounced, and
on I March 1939 the GHQ Air Force was placed under the Chief of
the Air Corps. T h e new relationship proved of short duration, for
on 19 November 1940 the GHQ Air Force was removed from the
jurisdiction of the Chief of the Air Corps and was accorded a separate
status under the commander of the Army field forces. T h e move was
opposed by most air leaders, since it precluded their ultimate com-
mand of the air striking force. T h e potentially serious effects of the
change were in some respects mitigated by the appointment a week
earlier of Maj. Gen. H.H. Arnold as Acting Deputy Chief of Staff.
Holding this office as well as that of Chief of the Air Corps, he was
in a position to co-ordinate the activities of the two elements of Army
a~iation.~'
By the spring of 1941, however, it was clear that co-ordination was
* See above, p. 3 2 .
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