“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
ferrying organization for the flight to Scotland. By ferrying these
bombers under their own power, vital shipping space was saved and
factory-to-combat delivery time was cut from approximately three
months to less than ten days."
The British ferrying service was well under way when the Lend-
Lease Act became law on I I March 1941.Improving weather condi-
tions in the spring of 1941 and increasing aircraft production made
possible a speedup in trans-Atlantic deliveries, but the Atlantic ferry-
ing organization, or ATFERO as it became known when taken over
directly by the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, experienced
considerable difficulty in recruiting a sufficient number of pilots and
other crew members to maintain schedules. The War Department at
the time was attempting, not too successfully, to assist the British in
employing additional pilots in the United state^,^ and the British them-
selves were forced to withdraw some pilots from combat units for
ferrying duty. A solution to the problem was made possible by the
Lend-Lease Act. On 2 1 April, General Arnold wired from London,
where he was then conferring with British officials as to means of ex-
tending aid, proposing that the United States Army Air Corps take
over responsibility for the ferrying of British aircraft from the fac-
tories to Montreal. T w o major ends to be achieved were set forth in
the message. American military pilots would be able to acquire highly
useful training in flying the latest types of combat aircraft; and civilian
pilots then employed by the factories would be released for service
with ATFERO in delivering the aircraft across the Atlantic.6 Hard
pressed for pilots, the British received General Arnold's proposal with
enthusiasm and readily consented to give official sanction to American
use of British-owned aircraft for training purposes within the United
States.'
In the course of discussions between representatives of the two
countries during the month that followed, consideration was given to
a plan favored by the War Department by which the United States
would take over control of the whole ferrying operation from the
factories to Britain. But to certain features of this plan Brig. Gen. Carl
Spaatz, then on the staff of the Chief of the Air Corps, raised objections
which seemed convincing.8 President Roosevelt decided to adopt the
more modest proposal of General Arnold of 2 1 April and to leave
to the British the job of flying the aircraft across the Atlantic. On 28
May the President directed the Secretary of War to take full respon-
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