“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
were instructed to take evasive action in order to avoid contact with
Japanese air By the middle of October, General MacArthur
had chartered two ships to transport aviation fuel to Rabaul, Port
Moresby, and Darwin, and arrangements had been made for further
shipment of fuel to these points from the United States. Since Wake
and Midway still had sufficient supplies of fuel for ferrying purposes,
the route was ready for more flights of heavy bombers. The 19th
Group at Hamilton Field, California, was alerted on 16 October for
its flight to the Philippines. Although depot overhaul of the twenty-
six B-17’s delayed the departure of some of the planes, by the morning
of 2 2 October the last of the aircraft had completed the flight to
Hickam Field. Here the group was divided into several flights, since
not all of the staging points were capable of accommodating twenty-six
bombers at one time. The first flight took off from Hickam Field on
2 2 October. The entire movement was plagued by unfavorable
weather and engine trouble, but within one week the first eight planes
arrived at their final de~tination.’~By 6 November twenty-five B-17’s
of the 19th Group had landed a t Clark Field; and the final plane,
grounded at Darwin because of engine changes and weather, soon
arrived safely.86
Possessing thirty-five heavy bombers and the promise of more, the
air force in the Philippines now gave evidence of a vigorous determi-
nation to protect American interests in the Far East. Further evidence
came with the assignment of key personnel and additional units to the
air force and with the reorganization of that force in an attempt to
better its combat effectiveness. Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton was sent
from the United States to become General MacArthur’s air com-
mander and to direct a reorganization which had been outlined during
a series of conferences at AAF Headquarters in Washington. On 16
November the military air units in the Philippines, under General
Brereton’s command, became the Far East Air Force, which included
the V Bomber Command under Lt. Col. Eugene L. Eubank, the V
Interceptor Command under Brig. Gen. Henry B. Clagett, and the
Far East Air Service Command under Col. L.S. Churchill. Because of
a shortage of experienced officers, only skeleton staffs could be pro-
vided for the new units, but the War Department promised to send
additional officers and enlisted men by the first available transport.
The Interceptor Command was composed of the 24th Pursuit Group,
whose pilots had received advanced training in pursuit tactics at
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