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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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were taken in a series of inter-American agreements which followed.
These agreements provided for mutual action to preserve the peace
of the hemisphere, and in some instances arrangements were made
with individual countries which gave US. forces an entree into stra-
tegic areas normally closed to them. On 3 October 1939, American
foreign ministers, meeting in Panama, adopted a declaration of neutral
rights and established a safety belt 300 miles in width around the en-
tire hemisphere, except off Canada and Newfoundland, already at
war.61T h e neutrality zone was soon violated by European belligerents,
but in July 1940 the American republics took concerted action more
forceful than the Declaration of Panama. At Havana a conference of
American foreign ministers made the Monroe Doctrine multilateral,
agreeing that their respective governments would oppose any change
in sovereignty of European colonies in the Western Hemisphere and
would combat Axis attempts to undermine American institutions.62
T h e missing link in the inter-American security system was supplied
on 18 August 1940 when the governments of Canada and the United
States announced the establishment of a Permanent Joint Board on
Defense, with equal representation from each nation, to co-ordinate
defense measures for North America.63
Co-operation with friendly nations made it possible for the United
States to extend greatly the Atlantic perimeter of hemisphere defense.
T h e first step was made public on 3 September 1940 when President
Roosevelt revealed an agreement transferring fifty over-age destroyers
to Great Britain in exchange for the right to establish air and naval
bases a t eight strategic points in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas6*
By 2 7 March 1941, the two governments had completed negotiations
which gave to the United States a 99-year lease on sites in Newfound-
land, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Lucia, Trinidad,
and British G ~ i a n a . ' ~Prior to this agreement Canada had taken over
some of the responsibility for garrisoning certain Caribbean islands,
Bermuda, and Newfoundland.6GCo-ordination required under the new
arrangement was assured by the Permanent Joint Board on Defense.
In October 1940 the board, in a study on Newfoundland, had recom-
mended certain specific defense measures and a division of responsi-
bilities between Canada and the United A t the same time
the Air Corps was conducting a survey of possible air base sites, and
on the basis of these investigations four locations for Army installa-
tions were chosen. It was decided to station Air Corps units at the
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