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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…
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
These figures included British contract and lend-lease orders, and since
those were more numerous in Army-type planes, the division between
the services was not as disparate as the table indicates. Allocation
among the several United Nations was reserved for a fuller study of
the problems involved.
For the present, however, there was need of an immediate adjust-
ment in the allotment of planes according to current estimates of pro-
duction rates. In each of the allocation agreements made or suggested
before 7 December, the requirements of the AAF had been subordi-
nated to those of the British. T o the extent that such a policy had put
tactical planes into the hands of an air force actually combating the
common enemy, it was justified. With the United States now in the
war, however, that policy had to be revised to provide for the AAF's
immediate combat needs and for its approved expansion.
The issue was raised at the beginning of ARCADIA, when on 24
December Admiral Stark announced that in the future US. heavy
bombers sent to the United Kingdom would be manned by American
crews, and, when possible, be in organized units. Air Chief Marshal
Sir Charles Portal pointed out that this was not in accord with previous
arrangements, but he was assured by General Arnold that the proposal
would not prejudice existing agreements, details of which were to be
worked out Those details were incorporated into the so-called
Arnold-Portal Agreement, signed on 1 3 January 19~f2.~*The docu-
ment listed by categories and by months the specific number of planes
to be made available to Great Britain during 1942 from US. produc-
tion. The totals called for 589 heavy bombers, 1,744medium bombers,
2,745 light bombers, 4,050 pursuits, 402 observation planes, and 852
transports." Trainers were dealt with elsewhere, The allocations were
* The full text of the agreement reads as follows:
Subject: Allocation of Airplanes-1942.
The following allocation of planes to Britain from production in the United States
is agreed upon:
H.B.
Jan. '5
Feb. 47
Mar. 20
Apr. 2 0
May 40
June 45
J ~ Y '9
Aug. 64
M.B.
65
65
94
I 80
I 80
I 8 0
I 80
200
L.B.
'73
19'
'70
17'
271
241
30'
258
Observation Transport
39
52
150
'25
'05
27 45
80 43
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coma.