“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
version of the A-toA) and Hudsons (A-29’s)-were the most numer-
ous, but a large number of AT-6 Harvard trainers were flown to RAF
training fields in Canada. Most of the Bostons were flown to the Floyd
Bennett Airport, New Yorlq for water shipment to Britain, while
some were shipped out of New Orleans and Savannah. The majority
of the Hudsons were delivered a t Montreal to the RAF Ferry Com-
mand, which had been created in July 1941 to take over the work of
ATFERO, and were flown from there to Newfoundland and across
the Atlantic to Scotland. Some sixty Liberator bombers were also
turned over to the RAF a t Montreal.”
During the fall of 1941 the Ferrying Command had assumed an
additional responsibility for delivery of some of the AAF’s own
planes from factory to stations within the United States1’ These de-
liveries were relatively few in proportion to the whole, however, and
until 7 December the primary task of the command remained that of
assisting in the movement of British aircraft to Canada or to eastern
ports for shipment to England. But after Pearl Harbor the domestic
ferrying of American aircraft quickly became a major function of the
command, and one, in time, of such huge proportions that the AAF
had reason to congratulate itself on the possession of an agency al-
ready organized for and experienced in the work. From the domestic
ferrying assignment it was only a step to the taking over by the com-
mand of responsibility for delivering or supervising the delivery of
AAF and lend-lease aircraft to theaters of war scattered over the
world.
For assumption of this new responsibility, the Ferrying Command
had been partly prepared by its operation through the latter half of
1941 of an overseas transport service. As relations between the United
States and Great Britain had grown closer through the spring of 1941,
the need for a more rapid means of transportation between the two
countries than could be provided by surface vessels became increas-
ingly urgent. Through the establishment of an air service across the
Atlantic, the diplomatic mail and important military and diplomatic
officials of the two countries could move back and forth with the
speed demanded by the course of events; and, when the American
government decided to open such a service in the summer of 1941, it
was placed under the control of the newly created Ferrying Com-
mand.17 The AAF’s pioneer overseas transport service began opera-
tions on I July, when a B-24 piloted by Lt. Col. Caleb V. Haynes took.
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