“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…
D E P L O Y M E N T O N T H E E V E O F H O S T I L I T I E S
force was then composed of 8 B - I ~ B ' s ,5 3 officers, and 449 enlisted
men, plus an air base squadron." Under the guidance of Maj. Gen.
Gerald C. Brant, Army commander in Newfoundland, policies on
joint operations were arranged for the new B-17's and for B-IS'S
operated by Royal Canadian Air Force units stationed at the New-
foundland Airport. Air operations were confined largely to reconnais-
sance, but occasional attacks were made against German submarines
which approached the island shores.'? An increase in submarine
activity in November brought a request from the Navy for more
Army air units a t the Newfoundland Airport in order to afford
greater protection for Allied shipping and to insure the safety of
essential sea communications.'s By the first week of December 1941
the 49th Bombardment Squadron, with nine B- I 7B's, was preparing
to depart from the United States for Newfoundland, and the AAF
was attempting to obtain a small supply of depth bombs which were
needed for attacks on submarines.*'
Air defense preparations in Greenland were not so far advanced as
those in Newfoundland. Surveys which were made during the spring
and summer of 1941 had failed to disclose any site suitable for an
airfield on the eastern coast, but a promising site was found on the
southern tip of the island at Narsarssuak, about thirty-five miles
northeast of Julianehaab.20In west Greenland a suitable location for
a staging field was found in the Holstensborg district, and top priority
was given to the building of runways and air base facilities in order
to speed delivery of aircraft to Great Britain.'l Plans were made to
develop the Narsarssuak site into a major air base as rapidly as possi-
ble, the Secretary of W a r having directed in the spring that establish-
ment of a Greenland air base be accelerated." Proposed sites for other
military installations were investigated during the fall of 1941 by Col.
Benjamin F. Giles, an Air Corps officer who had been designated to
head the Greenland Base Command." T h e planned Army air garri-
sons for Greenland, approved by the W a r Department in October,
comprised one heavy bombardment squadron, one interceptor pursuit
squadron, an air base squadron, weather and communications detach-
ments, and air service units totaling 921 officers and men. 2 4 Only a
few weather, communications, and aviation engineering troops had
arrived by December 1941;tactical squadrons could not be sent until
construction of airfields and housing had been completed. Two sta-
tions in the Army airways communications system were in operation
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