“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
Aero Repair Branch, and more than half of the depot property stocks
were destroyed. AAF casualties, especially at Hickam Field, were
heavy, reaching a total of 163 killed, 43 missing, and 336 wounded."
A tentative plan to strike at Midway on the return voyage was
abandoned by the Japanese because of the unfavorable weather. Ex-
cept for two carriers dispatched for participation in the attack on
Wake, the enemy fleet returned to the Inland Sea of Japan.17 Japanese
officials interviewed after the war indicated that they had at no time
contemplated a landing in Hawaii. N o r apparently was the capture
of Midway included in their original plans. T h e major Japanese drive,
as had been anticipated by the associated powers, would be directed
against the Netherlands East Indies and the Malay Peninsula, and in
its course would absorb the American-held Philippine Islands. That
drive would not be impeded by the fleet based at Pearl Harbor. T h e
enemy's victory had been perfect as few military operations are. Its
early consequences were to follow closely enough Japanese hopes.
Defeat on Luzon
According to the Japanese plan for the capture of the Philippine
Islands, naval air units would assume the initial responsibility for de-
struction of defending air and naval forces and for cover of the land-
ings. When beachheads had been established and Philippine airfields
had been captured, army air units would move in for the purpose of
supporting the ground forces. T h e first air assault was scheduled for
early morning on the same day of the attack in Hawaii."
Preparations had been well under way by the opening of November.
During the first two weeks of the month, land-based naval air units
of the I Ith Air Fleet were transferred to Formosa, where with ap-
proximately 300 planes they entered into intensive training in day and
night bombing, long-range reconnaissance, air coverage, and strafing
attack. As December came in, the Third Fleet was engaged in as-
sembling its main forces at Formosa for the amphibious invasion of
the Philippines; and to the naval air strength deployed at Formosan
bases were added 150 to 1 7 5 planes of the Fifth Army air force. T h e
main weight of army aviation was deployed in the south for support,
initially from Indo-Chinese bases, of the conquest of M a 1 a ~ a . l ~
For defense of the Philippines the Far East Air Force had in com-
mission thirty-three B - I ~ ' s ,of which sixteen were at Del Monte and
the rest at Clark Field, and approximately ninety pursuit aircraft."
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