“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
Field under instruction to take no offensive action until so
T h e Summary of Activities for that date has as its first entry the fol-
lowing notation: ‘‘07: I 5 General Brereton visited No. I Victoria and
requested permission of General MacArthur to take offensive action.
H e was informed that for the time being our role was defensive, but
to stand by for orders.” And a t 0900 appears this entry: “In response
to query from General Brereton a message received from General
Sutherland advising planes not authorized to carry bombs at this time.”
T h e second of these entries is probably to be interpreted in the
context of developments occasioned by an impending enemy attack.
While air force officers awaited orders, the aircraft warning service
had reported enemy aircraft proceeding south over Lingayen Gulf
toward Manila.34All B-17’s a t Clark Field were ordered into the air
without bomb load to avoid being caught on the ground and were
instructed to patrol the waters off northern L u z o ~ . ~ ~The 20th Pursuit
Squadron, also based at Clark, was dispatched to intercept the
approaching formation, and a t Nichols Field the 17th, under command
of Lt. Boyd Wagner, received orders to cover Clark. At 0910, Col.
Harold H. George, chief of staff, V Interceptor Command, reported
to headquarters “that there are 54 airplanes in the air and 36 airplanes
in reserve and that no contact with hostile aircraft has been made.” At
092 3 , he reported “approximately 24 bi-motored enemy bombers near
Tuguegarao and I 7 near Baguio.” Simultaneously, another report
indicated that “Tarlac and Tuguegarao were being bombed.” Planes
of the 20th Pursuit had expected to make contact with the enemy
north of Manila over Rosales, but the Japanese escaped interception
by swinging east to direct their main effort against Baguio, summer
capital of the phi lip pine^.^^
Following this attack, Brereton by telephone renewed his request
for authority to take offensive action. According to the Summary of
Activities the time was 1000, and the “Chief of Staff informed General
Brereton that all aircraft would be held in reserve and that the present
attitude is strictly defensive. General Brereton stated to General
Sutherland that if Clark Field was taken out we could not operate
offensively.” T o the same entry is appended: “Bomber command
recommends bombs not be loaded at this time due to danger of exten-
sive damage by enemy air action.” At the same hour but under separate
entry appears this brief notation: “24 enemy bombers reported in
Cagayan Valley proceeding south in direction Manila.”
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