“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…
A I R T R A N S P O R T A N D F E R R Y I N G
Air Force in the Middle East and the Tenth Air Force in India. Fighter
aircraft for the Ninth and Tenth Air Forces and for the American
Volunteer Group in China were shipped by water to the west coast
of Africa and were then ferried overland to their destinations. And,
while ferrying operations were increasing steadily, an air transport
service in support of both ferrying and combat operations was en-
larged and extended.
The ferrying service and the air transport service developed by the
AAF in World War I1 operated over the same routes, used the same
bases, and were interdependent to such a degree that control was
lodged in a single military agency. Known originally as the Air Corps
Ferrying Command, it became the Air Transport Command in June
'942.
The Air Corps Ferrying Command
The Air Corps Ferrying Command had its origins in 1941 in an
attempt to assist the British in the delivery of American-built aircraft
to England. The British had pointed the way toward development of
long-range strategic air supply services by establishing early in the
war air supply lines from North America to the United Kingdom
and from the home base to the Middle East.* In November 1940 a
Canadian civilian agency under contract with the British government
began .the ferrying of American-built bombers across the North Atlan-
tic from Newfoundland to Scotland, a distance of approximately
2,100 miles. This was the first step in the spanning of the Atlantic with
an aerial supply bridge, comparable as a development in military
supply to the first use of the railroad as a logistical instrument in the
wars of the nineteenth century. The hazardous route across the North
Atlantic constituted, however, only one segment of a long supply line
that reached from the factories of southern California to the airfields
of Britain. The bombers, purchased for cash from American manu-
facturers prior to the passage of the Lend-Lease Act, were first fer-
ried by factory-employed pilots from California to Montreal. There
they were turned over to the civilian pilots of the British Atlantic
Before the war, Germany and the U.S.S.R. had led in experimenting with the
use of military air transport in the deployment of airborne troops; and during the
early period of the war, particularly in the invasion of Norway and later of Crete,
Germany proved the tactical effectiveness of the transport airplane. But neither of
these countries had envisaged, nor were they under a real necessity to ,develop under
war conditions, the type of long-range strategic air supply services whlch the United
States and Great Britain were to employ so effectively.
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