“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
tralia, General Brereton had reached Darwin after conferences en
route from the Philippines with American naval commanders and
Dutch air and army officials at Soerabaja and Batavia. It was his mis-
sion under instructions from General MacArthur to organize “ad-
vanced operating bases from which, with the Far East Air Force, you
can protect the lines of communications, secure bases in Mindanao,
and support the defense of the Philippines by the U.S. Army Forces in
the Far East.” H e was to establish liaison with the Commanding Gen-
eral, U.S. Forces in Australia, v7ho was “charged with the organization
of bases in Australia,” and from those bases to direct “the operation of
the Far East Air Force . . . and the disposition of Air Corps troops
in advance thereof in order to accomplish your assigned mission.” lo*
General Brereton established a temporary headquarters at Darwin.
Though the aim of all operations still remained officially the rein-
forcement of the Philippines, there was now little justification for the
hope that substantial reinforcements and supplies could reach Mac-
Arthur’s forces in time to save them. In addition to the difficulties,
delays, and frustrations already noted, it was daily becoming more
unlikely that pursuit aircraft, the first requirement in air reinforce-
ments, could be ferried into the Philippines. T h e Japanese, who
recently had captured Davao and as a result were using airfields on
Mindanao by the last week in December, threatened soon to be astride
all possible air routes from Australia to the Philippines. Under these
circumstances both the A-24 and the P-40, their range limited to little
more than 500 miles, could be intercepted with relative ease. More-
over, it was evident enough that the Allies would soon be hard put to
hold even the key points in the Netherlands East Indies against the
continuing advance of Japanese
General Brett, who reached Australia on 3 1 December, found
little immediate hope of an effective reinforcement of the Philippines.
On 2 January he radioed General Marshall that it would be impossible
to carry out much in the way of tactical operations until an “establish-
ment” in Australia, including a large air base at Darwin and a major
supply and repair base at Townsville, had been developed. In a recent
conference with Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, who had been trans-
ferred from the Middle East to India the preceding July, Brett had
found agreement on general principles of strategy, and on 3 January
he presented their conclusions to a conference with Australian chiefs
of staff and other military and governmental officials. In considering
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