“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…
D E F E N S E O F T H E W E S T E R N H E M I S P H E R E
soon defined the elements which would be required in a defense sys-
tem. It would be necessary to know in advance of the approach of
enemy craft. Next, there would have to be some method for con-
tinuous tracking of the planes as they came toward their objective, and
this would require some device to supply information regarding the
height, direction, speed, and approximate size of a raiding force.
Finally, there would need to be some system for identifying friendly
fighters and of communicating to their pilots the information gathered
on the movement of enemy planes. Given all these elements, a com-
mander on the ground might then control the interception and bring
friendly fighters into contact with any large attacking force. Such a
system might not prevent an occasional raider from breaking through,
but it would make it possible to limit the advantage of complete sur-
prise which some students of the problem thought the airplane would
always enjoy.
With the technical equipment which existed in 1918, no adequate
defense against air raids was possible, but attempts to perfect new
devices occupied much of the time of military planners through the
two decades between World Wars I and 11.'' T h e first detectors used
such equipment as parabolic reflectors to pick up the sound of an on-
coming plane, but results were so poor that the United States Army in
1933 abandoned research in the field of auditory detection.lo0Several
other lines of investigation, notably in the possibility of using infrared
heat waves, attracted attention, but ultimately interest came to be
centered in discovery of a more exact method of detection by use of
radio waves. A t first, ordinary radio waves were employed; but severe
technical limitations were encountered, and the true origins of modern
military radar-"radio detection and ranging"-dated from I 93 5, when
practical microwave radio sets were developed. Four basic steps were
involved in the improvements which gave radar its great military sig-
nificance: the discovery that radio energy of very high frequency
was reflected by objects in its path rather than being absorbed as was
the case with waves of lower frequency; the development of a trans-
mitter to emit pulses of radio energy in a sharply defined directional
beam, which, with allowance of a time lapse between emissions, per-
mitted a receiver to pick up the energy reflected from the target; the
perfection of a cathode ray tube, or oscilloscope, on which the small
time lapse between the outgoing pulse and the reflected image could
be measured; and, finally, the invention of the cavity magnetron tube,
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