“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
surface vessel to British forces in the United Kingdom or in the Middle
East between the passage of the Lend-Lease Act and the end of 1941,
less than I O O were sent under lend-lease.z2Aircraft purchased during
the cash-and-carry period and scheduled for delivery in 1941 were
earmarked chiefly for service in the British Isles, and thus the earliest
ferrying activity of the AAF, like its initial overseas transport service,
was marked by a focus on the North Atlantic route.
At the same time, important steps had been taken during 1941 to-
ward the development of a South Atlantic air route joining the United
States to Africa and the Middle East. Compared with the 2,700 miles
that lay between northern Maine and Great Britain along a direct
route through Newfoundland, I 0,000 miles separated Miami from
Cairo.23An airplane leaving southern Florida traveled 4,000 miles in
a southeasterly direction before reaching Natal on the Brazilian bulge.
Pivoting at Natal, it had to traverse an additional 6,000 miles in order
to reach Cairo. But compensating in part for the great length of the
southern route were certain favorable geographical factors. It had
the advantage of year-around flying weather, while over the North
Atlantic route ferrying and transport operations were seriously ham-
pered or even shut down altogether by bad weather conditions during
the winter. Most of the southern route lay over two great land masses,
the South American and African continents. Through the Carib-
bean the Antilles chain formed convenient steppingstones from Florida
to the Guianas. For a time the Atlantic-approximately 1,800 miles at
the narrowest-presented a formidable barrier to the movement of
two-engine aircraft from continent to continent. But with the open-
ing of an air base on Ascension Island in July 1942, the ocean cross-
ing was divided into two fairly easy stages and ceased to be a serious
operational p r ~ b l e m . ' ~
The major part of the route to the Middle East passed over either
Brazilian territory or that controlled by Great Britain. Brazil was com-
pletely co-operative in permitting American aircraft of all types,
whether manned by military or civilian crews, to fly over her territory
or land at bases on her Here was a case of the Good Neighbor
policy paying practical dividends. Britain, the chief recipient of lend-
lease aid in the form of supplies sent by air to Africa, was able to
contribute a number of sites for bases all along the southeastern route.
In the Caribbean the United States secured, through the destroyer-base
lease agreement, sites for air bases on the islands of Trinidad, Jamaica,
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