“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…
P E A R L H A R B O R A N D C L A R K F I E L D
most successful interception was performed by six pilots of the 47th
Pursuit Squadron based on the small field at Haleiwa, the only usable
airfield not subjected to serious enemy attack. Though not at their
base when the attack commenced, Lts. Harry M. Brown, Robert J.
Rogers, Kenneth A. Taylor, John J. Webster, and George S. Welch
succeeded in reaching Haleiwa by automobile and, acting without
information as to the number and type of enemy planes, carried out
a number of sorties in P-40’s and P-36’s between 0815 and 1000.
Welch alone claimed four enemy planes shot down. Lt. John L.
Dains, another pilot participating in the action, alternately used a
P-36 and a P-40 in three sorties, but on the third of these he was shot
down over Schofield Barracks, apparently by antiaircraft fire. O n
learning of the attack upon Wheeler, crews of the 44th Pursuit
Squadron at Bellows Field began arming their P-40’s and by 0855
three were ready. But just as pilots Hans C. Christiansen, George A.
Whiteman, and Samuel W. Bishop prepared to take off, Japanese
pursuits swept over the field in a strafing attack. Christiansen was
killed while getting into his plane; Whiteman was shot down imme-
diately after his take-off; and the other P-40, severely damaged,
crashed into the ocean. In spite of a wound in the leg, Bishop suc-
ceeded in swimming ashore. At about 0850 four P-36’s of the 46th
Pursuit Squadron had taken off from Wheeler during a temporary
break under orders to proceed to the vicinity of Bellows Field, near
which they atracked a formation of nine Japanese planes. In spite of
the fact that the P-36’s could not match their opponents in rate of
climb, two of the enemy were shot down with the loss of one Amer-
ican plane piloted by Lt. Gordon H. Sterling, Jr.lo
N o t until I I O O was it possible for Hawaii-based bombers to get off
the ground in a search for the enemy’s carriers. But the B-17’~of the
38th and 88th Reconnaissance Squadrons, which had left Hamilton
Field the preceding evening on the first leg of a flight from the United
States to the Philippines,” arrived over Oahu in the midst of the
attack, Unfortunately, the planes had been so heavily loaded with
gasoline that ammunition could not be carried, and for purposes of
balance the armor plate in the rear had been shifted forward. As a
consequence, the pilots on reaching Hawaii could attempt no more
than to escape from enemy fire. Of the first of two flights, Maj.
Richard H. Carmichael, ranking officer of the 88th Squadron, and
* See above, p. 193.
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