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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…
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
the conclusion that an air assault on the locks and other vital installa-
tions would be the most likely form of attack by an enemy in the
area. T h e importance of air defense was consequently heightened,
although the mission of Army air forces in the Canal Zone remained
unchanged. A Joint Board report in 1937 had specified the joint mis-
sion of Army and Navy forces in the Panama Canal Department as
“protection of the Panama Canal in order that it may be maintained
in continuous operating condition,” obviously for passage of the fleet.
The Army mission was to protect the canal against sabotage and
against attacks by air, land, and sea forces, while the Navy mission
was to support the Army in defending the canal and to protect ship-
ping in the coastal zones. Local defense plans gave Army aviation the
responsibility of air defense of the canal, with the understanding that
naval patrol planes would carry out distant reconnaissance, patrolling,
reporting, and tracking. T h e two major tasks of the Army air com-
ponent consisted of furnishing an offensive or striking force to destroy
enemy vessels encountered and of furnishing a defensive force to com-
bat air attacks. Similar missions were assumed by other Army air
contingents as bases were established throughout the Caribbean and by
the Caribbean Air Force upon its activation in May 1 9 4 1 . ~ ~
Of the several outlying sites in the eastern Caribbean, Puerto Rico
presented the most advanced stage of development in air defenses by
December I 941, primarily because preparations had begun early in
1939. T h e Air Corps had previously been unable to secure approval
of an air base in Puerto Rico, for the W a r Department regarded such
a development as purely a wartime measure. A site in the Punta
Borinquen area was selected for a major air base, and seven sites were
chosen for auxiliary airfields. In December 1939 the 27th Reconnais-
sance Squadron arrived from the United States to begin the air de-
fense of Puerto Rico. One year later, approval had been granted for
creation of a composite wing in Puerto Rico, to consist of an inter-
ceptor pursuit group, one heavy and one medium bombardment
group, two air base groups, two reconnaissance squadrons, and one
observation squadron. Cadres for some of the units were sent from
the United States early in 1941, and by subdividing they furnished
the skeleton forces needed for activation of other units. T h e 13th
Composite Wing, under the command of Brig. Gen. Follett Bradley,
became the initial unifying agency for military aviation in Puerto
Rico, while a provisional air defense command was established to
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