The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

“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…