“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
after dark at the now much-bombed Del Monte field, from which four
of them took off again shortly after midnight for Lingayen Gulf,
almost 600 miles away. Again visibility was poor and although trans-
ports were bombed, no hits were observed. The Japanese put up a
barrage of antiaircraft fire which did no damage, but enemy fighters
pursued with such persistence that the bombers could not land at San
Marcelino as had been planned. Instead, they headed for Australia.
One of the planes came down for refueling at an emergency field at
San Jose in Mindoro; the other three reached the Dutch base at
Amboina before landing. By 24 December all nine aircraft, five pro-
ceeding directly from Del Monte, had returned to Batchelor Field.85
Meanwhile, another flight from Australia, this time of three heavy
bombers, had arrived at Del Monte. There on 24 December the air-
craft were loaded each with 2 , 1 0 0 gallons of gasoline and 7 x 300-lb.
bombs in preparation for a mission against Davao. T w o of the planes
then bombed the Davao airfield from 15,000 feet, and shortly there-
after the third attacked shipping in the Davao harbor. All three planes
returned to Darwin, though two of them had sustained considerable
damage.sa
The pursuit planes in their daily reconnaissance missions continued
to report the steady advance of the enemy from the north and addi-
tional landings along the Luzon coast. Against one of these landings,
in San Miguel Bay on the southeast coast, the Interceptor Command
decided on 2 3 December to throw virtually all its remaining aircraft.
Attrition had cut down the 24th Group’s striking power to a total of
twelve P-40’s and six P-35’s, but they proved sufficient to create a grati-
fying confusion among enemy personnel in landing barges and around
supply dumps ashore. The Japanese put up a heavy screen of antiair-
craft fire. One P-35 was forced into a crash landing, and an explosive
bullet, shattering the windscreen of Lieutenant Wagner‘s P-40, well-
nigh blinded him.’’ The American effort was in”effect a last gesture
of defiance, for following this mission all aj, ‘force units received
instructions to evacuate currently held Luzon bases as a part of the
general withdrawal to Bataan. The evacuation began on 24 December.
Typical of the confusion which naturally reached its climax in this
withdrawal was the experience of the 27th Group, whose personnel
had suffered the particularly galling experience of being caught in the
front line of war without their planes. On 18 December the group had
been deprived of its commander when Maj. John M.Davies, together
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