“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
at Bellows Field, a road distance of some twenty-eight miles from
Hickam. T h e 15th and 18th Pursuit Groups, components of the pur-
suit wing, were stationed a t Wheeler, although one squadron was in
training at Haleiwa, a small field in the northern section of the island.
Two air base groups, a transport squadron, maintenance companies,
and service detachments made up the remainder of the air force.”
In addition to the major airfields on Oahu, emergency and auxil-
iary fields had been prepared on other islands of the Hawaiian group,
including Kauai, Lanai, Hawaii, Maui, and M010kai.~~Of the 2 3 1
military aircraft assigned to the air force on 7 December, approxi-
mately half the number could be considered up-to-date models.
Twelve B-I ~D’s,twelve A-ZOA’S,twelve P-~oC’S,and eighty-seven
P-4oB’s comprised the more modern aircraft, while thirty-three
B-I 8A’s, thirty-nine P - ~ ~ A ’ s ,fourteen P - 2 6 ’ ~ ~and an assortment of
observation, training, and attack planes made up the remainder of the
T h e Hawaiian Air Force had existed as an integrated command
only slightly more than one year. From the time of the arrival of the
first tactical squadron in 1917 to 1931, when the military air com-
ponent in the territory comprised some seven tactical squadrons and
two service squadrons, the air units had been loosely attached to the
Army’s Hawaiian Department without benefit of an air commander.
In 1931 an important administrative step was taken in formation of
the I 8th Composite Wing, which provided the separate squadrons
with an air headquarters. Expansion of the Air Corps brought about
a need for further reorganization in Hawaii, and on I November
I 940 the Hawaiian Air Force was activated and its bombardment
and pursuit units were organized into separate wings. Although the
air force remained under the command of the Hawaiian Department,
it had acquired the integrated structure necessary for efficient opera-
t i ~ n . ~ ’
Since 1935 the W a r Department had given first priority to the
Hawaiian Islands in the distribution of troops and munitions among
overseas garrisons. But, upon the outbreak of war in Europe, the
necessity for giving attention to bases in the North Atlantic and the
Caribbean, together with the urgent demands of a vast program of
expansion, had altered peacetime priorities; and not until early 1941
was it possible to send modem planes and additional antiaircraft artil-
* See map, p. 196.
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