“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
Sweden, be diverted to the Philippines. Late in November the 17th
and 20th Pursuit Squadrons arrived from the United States and took
up their station at Nichols Field on the outskirts of Manila.” In
March 1941 the Hawaiian Department was ordered to ship eighteen
B- I 8’s by transport to the Philippines, and the following month a mer-
chant ship sailed from the United States for Manila bearing thirty-one
P-4oB’s. T h e arrival of reinforcements and the prospect of receivirig
additional aircraft necessitated the creation of a more modern air or-
ganization in the Philippines. T h e Army air garrison, which had hith-
erto been organized into the 4th Composite Group, consisted of the
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, the 3d Pursuit Squadron,
and the two new pursuit squadrons at Nichols Field, and the 28th
Bombardment and zd Observation Squadrons at Clark Field, approxi-
mately sixty miles north of Manila. On 6 May 1941 these units, along
with the 20th Air Base Group and supporting units, were organized
into the Philippine Department Air Force. This change proved to be
only the first of a series of steps designed to bring about a more effec-
tive air force structure in the Philippines.’*
T h e German attack on Russia in June 1941, together with mounting
evidence of Japan’s intention to take advantage of the greater freedom
of action resulting therefrom for the purpose of a conquest of south-
east Asia, lent a new sense of urgency to all defensive preparations in
the Pacific and particularly to those in the Philippines.” Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, military adviser to the Philippine government and former
chief of staff of the U.S. Army, was recalled to active duty effective
26 July 1941 and placed in command of United States Army Forces
in the Far East. T h e Philippine Department Air Force, which became
a part of the new command, was given a more flexible organization
and a new designation on 4 August, when it became the Air Force,
United States Army Forces in the Far East. T h e force by this time
was able to put into the air one squadron of P-~oB’s,two squadrons of
P - ~ ~ A ’ s ,one squadron of P-z6A’s, and two squadrons of B-18’s, but
against even a mildly determined and ill-equipped foe, this show of
air strength would have been sadly deficient. Japanese capabilities
argued therefore for a radical upward revision in the apportionment
of aircraft to the Philippines; moreover, the geographical position of
the islands afforded the United States an opportunity, while providing
for their greater security, to emphasize its opposition to further Japa-
* See maps, pp. 202, ZZI.
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