“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
ganized units a t a rate which would synchronize with the accelerating
flow of materiel. Only in this fashion could be created the balanced
air force demanded by the strategic plans.
By 2 3 December 1941the Air Staff had agreed on a broad pattern
of expansion. During 1942 the AAF should accomplish its 84-group
program, meanwhile speeding up its training schedule to match the
Victory Program of aircraft production. In 1943 the AAF should
organize and train the groups called for in AWPD/I a t normal (First
Aviation) strength, and in 1944 at Second Aviation strength-that is,
with an additional squadron for each combat group.6oWithin a few
days, the goal for 1942 was raised and a I ~s-groupprogram substi-
tuted for the 84.6’General Arnold on 7 January apprised the Chief of
Staff of the aims of the AAF and requested authority to put the new
program into operation.62 Once having fulfilled “the immediate and
necessary commitments for theaters of operations and task forces,”
he proposed to devote the major effort toward developing training
facilities within the Air Corps. This would retard temporarily the rate
of training in the Air Force Combat Command (AFCC), but once
the program was in full swing it would relieve that command of all
responsibility for individual and crew training and allow it to con-
centrate on operational unit training. Under the new arrangement
Arnold proposed to reach an annual production rate of 50,000 pilots
and 300,000 technicians by August and of 70,000 pilots and 500,ooo
technicians in I 943.
On 19 January the Secretary of W a r approved this program in a
directive on expansion of the AAF during the calendar year 1 9 4 2 . ~ ~
The authorized strength of the AAF, including arms and services, was
increased to 70,914 officers and 997,687 enlisted men. Approval was
granted for activating during the year 45 additional groups of desig-
nated types. These were to be a t First Aviation strength and with the
7 0 existing groups would round out the I 15 called for in the new pro-
gram. The AAF was also directed to expand training facilities to make
possible the goals General Arnold had desired for 1942 and 1943.
Some steps were taken immediately to launch the new program. The
Flying Training Command was established on 2 3 January under the
Office of the Chief of the Air Corps, with full responsibility for train-
ing pilots and air crew^.^^ The activation of approved units progressed
rapidly; within two months some 3 0 groups had been added. The Air
Staff, meanwhile, had already begun planning for a greatly augmented
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