“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
Clark Field and in gunnery a t Iba Field, seventy-five miles northwest
of Manila. T w o additional units, the ~ 1 s tand 34th Squadrons of the
35th Pursuit Group, arrived from the United States during November
and were attached to the 24th Group pending the arrival of their
own organizations.
In the Bomber Command the 19th Group was the principal unit.
Although only the 30th and 93d Squadrons had been transferred from
the United States, the group was given its full complement by the as-
signment of the 28th Bombardment Squadron (E-T), which had been
in the Philippines for some fifteen years, and the 14th Squadron, which
had flown the first €3-17’s from Oahu in September. Air and ground
echelons of the 27th Bombardment Group (L) reached the Philippines
on 2 0 November, but the transport Meigs, carrying the group’s fifty-
two A-24’~,was delayed in Hawaii until 2 4 November when a naval
escort was provided. T h e planes never reached their destination. Other
bombardment units were being prepared for transfer to the Philip-
pines. T h e ground echelon of the 7th Bombardment Group (H) sailed
from San Francisco on 2 I November, while the air echelon, including
that of the 88th Reconnaissance Squadron, was scheduled to proceed
by flights of nine aircraft each in late November or early December.
The 32d Bombardment and 38th Reconnaissance Squadrons (H) were
also being prepared for transfer to the Far East Air Force.*?
It was expected that the heavy bombers would continue to fly the
northern route at least until mid-January 1942, although rapid progress
was being reported on the South Pacific route. Provision of air facili-
ties on the western half of the route, under General MacArthur’s
direction, was greatly aided by the co-operation of other forces in
the area. A t the time of the division of responsibility for the South
Pacific route it had been pointed out that the bombardment units
projected for the Far East would require further training upon ar-
rival, necessitating extensive flights in the territory of the Philippines,
Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea, and Australia.
It was therefore considered desirable to place the construction, expan-
sion, and maintenance of air route stations, training field detachments,
and all related matters of supply and personnel under General Mac-
Arthur’s direct control in the entire area west of New Caledonia and
the Solomon Islands.’’ Australian authorities had offered excellent co-
operation since the beginning of heavy bomber reinforcement of the
Philippines in September. By November the Commonwealth govern-
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