“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
with a dozen other pilots, had been flown to Australia for the purpose
of ferrying back the first of the group’s long-awaited A-24’S. Three
days later, remaining personnel had been ordered to prepare against
the arrival of the planes three new fields to be located at Lipa below
Manila and a t San Marcelino and San Fernando to the northwest. O n
the zqth, the move from Manila to these points had just been com-
pleted when another order directed all personnel to proceed to the
Manila docks. From there by truck and boat they made their way to
Bataan, where on Christmas day they celebrated with a dinner of
bread and hot coffee, topped off in a few cases by a nip of “grog.”
For all practical purposes, the 27th Group now became a part of
General MacArthur’s infantry, with which it would fight to the
bitter end.
T h e same fate awaited personnel of the 24th Group, but for a time
the tentative plan and organization reflected a continuing hope of
reinforcement. Both General Clagett and General Brereton had left
the Philippines, the latter on 24 December with members of his staff
in two PBY’s to establish a new headquarters in Au~tralia.~’By +he
29th of December, 650 officers and men of the 19th Group had
embarked in a hazardous movement by boat from Luzon to Del
Monte, which the Australia-based bombers still hoped to use as a
forward staging point for bombing operation^.^^ O n Luzon, which for
all practical purposes now meant Bataan, there remained the Inter-
ceptor Command under the capable and energetic Col. Harold H.
George, who as senior air officer proceeded to bring some order out
of the confusion accompanying the move to Bataan. His handful of
pursuit planes were distributed among three newly constructed fields
at the head of the peninsula under a plan to fall back as required to
the Mariveles, Cabcaben, and Bataan fields nearer Corregidor. Except
for the few pilots required to fly these planes and the men necessary
for their maintenance, the 24th Group was posted as infantry reserves,
an action, as events proved, merely preliminary to its redesignation on
10January as the zd Infantry Regiment (Provisional) with assignment
to the 71st Division. Colonel George had only a skeleton staff, but one
which could be expanded in the event hoped-for reinforcements
arrived before the tired American troops had been o ~ e r w h e l m e d . ~ ~
Chief hope of immediate relief rode with the convoy of eight trans-
ports and freighters which had left Honolulu for the Philippines on
29 November under escort by the U.S. cruiser Pensacola. As already