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The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)
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This is Volume One of The Army Air Forces in World War II, titled Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate. The University of Chicago Press first published it in 1948, and the Office of Air Force History reprinted it in 1983. The front matter explains how the AAF historical program was set up during the war. The index covers Pacific, Atlantic and European operations, and nothing in the text concerns unidentified aerial phenomena.
“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
It is General Brereton’s recollection that shortly before 1010he
received authority to undertake a reconnaissance mission to Formosa;
that Lt. Col. Eugene L. Eubank, bomber commander, promptly took
off from Nielson for Clark Field to assume personal direction of the
preparations; that Colonel Eubank on his arrival at Clark recalled the
bombers from patrol to prepare for the execution of orders which
called for three planes to fly the reconnaissance mission “and the rest
to be briefed for an attack”; that, a t about 1100, GHQ authorized
bombing missions; that he then instructed Eubank to load all available
B-17’s with 100- and 300-lb. bombs and to brief the crews for attack
of airdromes in southwest Formosa; and that he ordered the two
squadrons of bombers at Del Monte to move their B-17’s a t dusk to
San Marcelino, a pasture-like emergency field lying near the coast of
Luzon west of Clark, whence they were to proceed during the night
to Clark Field as a staging point for a mission at da~break.~’It is
with more than ordinary interest, therefore, that one reads the fol-
lowing entries in the daily summary:
10:10 Colonel Eubank left for Clark Field to take charge of operations from
Clark Field with instructions to dispatch a photo reconnaissance mission in
force at once to southern Taiwan area.
General Brereton received a telephone call from General MacArthur.
General Brereton stated that since the attack was not made on Clark Field that
bombers will be held in readiness until receipt of reports from reconnaissance
missions. Lacking report of reconnaissance, Taiwan would be attacked in late
afternoon. The decision for offensive action was left to General Brereton. All
bombers were ordered to arm and be on alert for immediate orders.
IO:ZO Report of planes coming south proved erroneous. Planes reported
coming south from Cagayan Valley turned around and are now proceeding
north. The staff was called in and informed of General Brereton’s telephone
conversation with General MacArthur. General Brereton directed that a plan
of employment of our Air Force against known airdromes in Southern Formosa
be prepared.
10:45 Employment of Air Force directed by General Brereton as follows:
Two ( 2 ) heavy bombardment squadrons to attack known airdromes in
Southern Formosa at the latest daylight hour today that visibility will permit.
Forces to be z squadrons of B-I 7’s. Two ( 2 ) squadrons of pursuit to be on the
alert to cover operations of bombardment. Pursuit to be used to fullest extent
to insure safety of bombardment. Two ( 2 ) squadrons of bombardment to San
Mencilino [sic] at dusk. To Clark Field after dark prepared for operations at
daybreak.
I I :10 Report received from Clark Field that airdrome had not been bombed.
II:ZO Field Order No. One, confirming Colonel Eubanks instructions to
10:14
19th Bombardment Group sent by teletype.
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