“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
to continue. In an address to Congress on 6 January 1941, President
Roosevelt suggested the means; 9 5 it became law with the defense-aid
act of 11 March, generally known as the Lend-Lease Under
this arrangement air materiel continued to be the most important item
of export, and it was essential to the success of the Air Corps program
that allocations under the new act be constantly reviewed in the light
of “changing political and strategic conditions.” In the machinery set
up for administering lend-lease, the Joint Aircraft Committee was
designated to serve as the Defense Aid Supply Committee for all avia-
tion materiel. The JAC thus acquired important administrative respon-
sibilities, but the broad policies governing the allotment of aid were
determined by the Pre~ident.~‘The fundamental policy for aircraft
was established within a few weeks, though the administrative details
continued to be subject to constant modification.
In the first lend-lease directive, the President extended its benefits to
Great Britain,g8thereby initiating the most powerful of the “measures
short of war” to aid that nation. It was not at all certain, however, that
such measures would be sufficient or that the United States could main-
tain its neutrality. On 27 March, Congress authorized the appropriation
of $7,000,000,000 for lend-lea~e.~~On the same day, committees repre-
senting the U.S. and British service staffs, which had been studying
jointly the best means of military collaboration if the United States
should join in the war, presented their first report (known as ABC-I)
on the grand strategy to be followed in a possible Anglo-American
war against the Axis.” T w o days later a second report, on air collabora-
tion, was submitted.100Known as ABC-2, this report recommended
that aircraft production be accelerated in both countries. As its first
objective, the United States should accomplish the AAF’s 54-group
program, with the view of employing a substantial portion of those
groups from England if America entered the war. The AAF should set
up as a further goal a program calling for roo groups, considered the
minimum requirement if the British Isles should be lost as a base for
our air forces. But it was also recommended that delivery of tactical
airplanes be made contingent upon the ability of the several services to
use them effectively and that therefore the AAF should defer the full
realization of its 54-group program to the extent that aircraft thus made
available could be used in the air offensive against Germany. Essen-
tially, this was an extension of the policy agreed on the previous July.
* See below, pp. 136-39.
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