“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…
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tained in regard to secret weapons; and the possible interference of
foreign orders with production for the Air Corps.91
Under the “Cash and Carry” act, various Air Corps models, some
obsolescent, some more modern, were released to France, England,
and other nations. O n 2 5 March 1940, a more liberal foreign release
policy was adopted, which authorized the sale to foreign states of
certain stipulated modern types” as soon as a superior type or model
could be furnished to the Air Corps.’* T h e crisis brought on by Ger-
man victories during the next three months greatly stimulated the
demand for planes on the part both of Britain and the United States.
T h e British assumed all aircraft contracts of the fallen French govern-
ment, and with these and their own orders their program called for
about 14,000 planes. T h e Air Corps’ new 54-group program called for
a total delivery, by I April 1942, of 2 1,470 tactical and training planes.
These huge orders, plus Navy demands, could not be filled within the
time limits set. Since English combat needs on the eve of the Battle of
Britain seemed more urgent than our own expansion requirements, it
was agreed on 2 3 July that the Air Corps should defer the delivery of
8,586 planes in favor of the British.g3 This agreement did not enjoin
the British from placing additional orders; and in the face of what
might develop into serious competition, the Air Corps feared that its
own program might further be retarded.
T o insure a systematic and equitable allocation of aircraft and
engines, an organization which came to be known as the Joint Aircraft
Committee (JAC) was established on I 3 September. It included repre-
sentatives of the three principal customers of the American aircraft
manufacturers-the British Purchasing Commission, the Navy’s Bureau
of Aeronautics, and the Air Corps. T h e Chief of the Air Corps, whose
office had taken the initiative in securing authorization for the JAC,
served as its chairman. Eventually the functions of the committee were
greatly extended. In January 1941it was given control over all foreign
contracts for aircraft materiel, and it became possible then to integrate
all production plans into a single
Existing legislation precluded the extension of loans to foreign
powers for financing the purchase of weapons in the United States,
and as British dollar credit shrank it became obvious that some new
method must be sought if the effort to supply Britain with arms was
B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, A-ZOA,P-40, 0 - 5 2 , PT-IJB, PT-17, PT-18, PT-19, BT-13,
BT-14.