“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
Lt. Harold N. Chaffin brought their planes down on the 1,200-foot
runway at Haleiwa; Lts. Harry N. Brandon, David G. Rawls, and
Robert E. Thacker flew through antiaircraft and enemy machine-gun
fire to land a t Hickam; and Lt. Frank P. Bostrom piayed tag with
the enemy almost all the way around the island before landing on
a golf course. The second flight, led by Maj. Truman H. Landon of
the 38th Squadron, fortunately arrived during an inactive period in
the attack, but one of the B-17'~was badly shot up and two of its
crew members were seriously injured. Considering the fact that the
planes were entirely unarmed, had just completed a flight of more
than 2 , 0 0 0 miles, and were forced to land either on inadequate or
pock-marked fields, the bombers suffered surprisingly little damage.
A final accounting showed that of the fourteen planes which left
Hamilton Field, two had turned back early in the flight, and of the
remaining twelve which reached Hawaii, one had been destroyed
and three badly damaged."
Throughout the remainder of the day, P-~o's,P-36's, 0-47'S, A-ZO'S,
B- I 7's, and B- I 8's continued a fruitless search for the enemy's carriers,
flying a total of forty-eight sorties between 0930 and 1520. The air-
craft warning system had been put back into operation shortly after
0800, but could provide no assistance in this effort." Apparently the
course of the invaders plotted earlier in the morning was not utilized
as a clue to the probable location of the carrier^.'^ The Japanese fleet
had come and gone unseen by American patrol and reconnaissance
aircraft.
It is now known from enemy sources that Japanese flyers of the
first attack wave had returned to their carriers by noon, and that
within two hours thereafter all but twenty-nine of the planes sent
out against Hawaii had found their way back. But as the day advanced
the sea had roughened, and approximately fifty planes were smashed
in landing, with twenty or more representing a total This was
a small price to pay for the damage done to the Americans. In addition
to the losses suffered by the United States Navy, 64 of the 2 3 I aircraft
assigned to the Hawaiian Air Force as of 7 December 1941 had been
destroyed, and no more than 79 of the remaining planes were reported
as usable.'' At Hickam Field some of the more important administra-
tive and engineering files, the base parachute section, and the overhaul
and assembly sections of the Engine Repair Branch had been wiped
out. Test equipment, about 75 per cent of the equipment of the
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