“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
St. Lucia, and Antigua, and in British Guiana on the South American
continent.26The Trinidad and British Guiana bases became major
stopping points for transient aircraft, bridging the 2 , 0 0 0 miles that
separated Puerto Rico from Belem, Brazil, the northernmost base in
that country capable of handling heavy traffic. The base on Ascension
Island was located on British territory, as were most of the bases along
the west coast of Africa and across central Africa to Cairo.
Ferrying operations over the South Atlantic route had begun in
June 1941,when Atlantic Airways, Ltd., a Pan American Airways
subsidiary corporation organized especially for the job, undertook to
deliver twenty transport-type aircraft to the British in western Africa.
Shortly after the passage of the Lend-Lease Act, the British govern-
ment had requested, under terms of the act, a minimum of fifty trans-
port planes for its trans-African operation.27These planes were to be
placed on the run between Takoradi in the Gold Coast Colony and
Cairo-an airway of the highest strategic value in the line of communi-
cations between the British Isles and the Middle East. The trans-
African route had been pioneered by the British in the immediate
prewar years, and at the outbreak of the war Imperial Airways main-
tained a regular transport service over the run between Khartoum in
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Lagos on the Nigerian coast. Coastal
bases had been constructed a t Bathurst (Gambia), Freetown (Sierra
Leone), and at Takoradi and Accra in the Gold Coast Colony. Across
the waist of Africa, airfields had been cut from the jungle or laid out
on the desert at Kano and Maiduguri in Nigeria, at Fort Lamy in
French Equatorial Africa, and a t El Geneina, El Fasher, and El Obeid
in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With the loss of the French fleet in
1940 and the growing activity in the spring of 1941 of German air
forces based on Sicily, the British line of air and water communications
with Egypt by way of the Mediterranean was virtually closed. For-
tunately, the existence of the trans-African air route enabled the
British to avoid shipping aircraft by water all the way around Africa
and up through the Red Sea to Egypt. A large base and an assembly
plant were developed a t Takoradi, and here fighter and bomber air-
craft, waterborne from Britain, were assembled, tested, and then fer-
ried across Africa to Cairo. Beginning in the fall of 1940,British ferry
pilots began moving Hurricanes and Blenheims along this route. The
ferrying operation demanded also a transport service for returning
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