“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
noted, this convoy carried the ground echelon of the 7th Bombard-
ment Group (H), other air combat and service personnel to a total
of approximately 2,500 officers and men, 1 8 P-~o’s,and the unassem-
bled 5 2 A-24’S of the 27th Bombardment Group, in addition to large
supplies of aviation fuel and ammunition. When after crossing the
equator word came of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, protective
measures were taken, and as many guns as could be found were set up
on improvised mounts; but five of the vessels were left entirely with-
out armament. Even after picking up additional guns at Suva in the
Fiji Islands, the convoy remained ill prepared to defend itself. On 12
December, the convoy being still intact, it was decided to organize the
troops aboard into a task force under command of Brig. Gen. Julian
F. Barnes, senior officer present; and the following day General Barnes
received orders to proceed with the convoy to Australia, where he
would assume command of all U.S. troops in that country. There the
aircraft, ground crews, and other necessary equipment would be
landed, the aircraft to be assembled for immediate ferrying to Luzon,
while the convoy itself would proceed, conditions permitting, to the
Philippines. General Barnes announced on 19 December that his
command would be known as United States Forces in Australia, a
designation altered on 5 January to United States Army Forces in
Australia (USAFIA) .”
Meanwhile, preparations were under way in Australia for receiving
the convoy and forwarding reinforcements to our beleaguered forces
on Luzon. T h e U.S. military attacht, Col. Van S. Merle-Smith, acting
under instructions from Washington made preliminary arrangements
for assembly of aircraft and disposition of the vessels. General Barnes
received notice on Z I December that Maj. Gen. George H. Brett
would soon reach Australia to organize and command all American
units. But General Brett, who had served in almost every administra-
tive post in the Air Corps, was a t the time completing an official tour
of the Middle East, India, and China and did not leave Chungking for
Australia until the ~ 4 t h . ’ ~En route to his new post he conferred with
British officials in India and Dutch authorities in Java, so that his
arrival in Australia to take up the mission of establishing a supply
system for reinforcement of the Philippines was delayed until the end
of December. Pending the arrival of General Brett, General Clagett,
who had left Luzon on the ISth, assumed command when on 2 2
December he reached Brisbane. There on the same day the convoy
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