“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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editors have repeatedly drawn upon his counsel and special knowledge.
In shaping the current studies of his staff with a view in part to the
needs of this history, he has provided additional assurance of its com-
pletion in accordance with objectives set.
Individual acknowledgment is also due other members of the staff
of the Office of Air Force History: Mrs. Estelle Cornette, Mr. P. Alan
Bliss, Maj. Arthur J. Larsen, Capt. William A. Bennett, Capt. John W.
Miller, Dr. Chauncey E. Sanders, Miss Juliette Abington, Lt. Col.
Garth C. Cobb, and especially Mrs. Juanita S. Riner, Miss Fanita
Lanier, and Mrs. Wilhelmine Burch. Mrs. Riner has supervised the
typing, proofreading, and checking of the manuscript, tasks which are
particularly troublesome in a co-operative history. Miss Lanier, who
prepared the maps, end sheets, and dust jacket, has placed a t our com-
mand technical knowledge and artistic imagination. Mrs. Burch has
rendered valuable assistance in the attempt to bring the manuscript on
questions of style and usage into consistency with both military and
scholarly requirements. She has also taken the responsibility for read-
ing the printer’s proofs and preparing the index.
Of special value also has been the assistance provided by historians
charged with responsibility for the history of other arms and services.
Particular acknowledgment is due the Historical Division, War De-
partment Special Staff, with which the relations of the Office of Air
Force History have been both close and unique. At all times its military
personnel, and especially Brig. Gen. Harry J. Maloney, Col. Allen F.
Clark, Jr., and Col. John M. Kemper, have stood ready to lend their
support when needed, while leaving the connection between the two
offices on a basis entirely consistent with the peculiar position occupied
by the Army Air Forces. Dr. Kent Roberts Greenfield, chief historian
of the War Department, has been generous both of his own time and
that of his staff in providing a detailed and critical estimate of the text.
For his suggestions, which have saved the editors from more than one
error, grateful acknowledgment is made. Acknowledgment is also
extended to Mr. Joel D. Thacker, historian, chief of Research,
Archives, and Library, Historical Section, U.S. Marine Corps, for his
courtesy and co-operation on repeated occasions.
WESLEYFRANKCRAVEN
Washington JAMES LEACATE
5 December 1947
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