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- 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
arrived and on the following day began its debarkation. Arrangements
had been made for quartering the American troops on the grounds of
the local Ascot and Doomben race tracks, with tenting and messing
facilities provided by the Australian army, and for the use of the
near-by Archerfield and Amberley airdromes for assembly of the
aircraft. *
Several factors interfered with a speedy execution of plans. T h e
convoy had been loaded on a peacetime basis, with little attention to
the advantage of placing equipment on the same vessel with its desig-
nated unit. In order to find the organizational equipment of the troops
who were to remain in Australia and the parts for aircraft to be assem-
bled there, it proved necessary to unload practically the entire cargo,
sort it, and reload such of it as was destined for shipment north to the
Philippines. Even then vital parts of the A-24’s-trigger motors, sole-
noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit-
less search for missing parts, it was decided to reload equipment
scheduled for water transport on the two fastest ships, the Holbrook
and the Bloemfontein. With Australian dockworkers assisting in the
effort through twenty-four hours of the day, the reloading was com-
pleted by 2 8 December. The Holbrook sailed immediately; the Bloenz-
fontein, delayed until its captain received clarification of orders from
Dutch authorities, left the next day.95
Though the initial steps toward reinforcement of the Philippines
had thus been taken, further delays would frustrate the effort. Assem-
bly of the planes was accomplished in short order, but the missing
parts of the A-24’s were never found; and since they were not avail-
able in Australia, it was necessary to await their shipment from the
United States, whence they were dispatched by air early in January.
Moreover, it had been discovered that there was no Prestone for the
P-~o’s,and though some was eventually rounded up in Australia, this
entailed still another delay.g6 And immediate difficulties of this sort,
despite the urgent need for planes on Bataan, were incidental to the
more important task of establishing a base in Australia that could main-
tain a continuing flow of reinforcements to Luzon. T h e war had
caught the United States midway in a program for air reinforcement
of the Philippines-planes, personnel, and equipment had already been
allocated for the purpose and their movement in many instances had
been started. If the problems involved in channeling their movement
through an Australian base could be promptly solved, there was a real
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