“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
pilots to Takoradi following the completion of deliveries to Cairo, and
for hauling critical items of supply east from Takoradi."
Realizing the importance of maintaining and increasing the scope
of the trans-African operation, the United States government, acting
through the Civil Aeronautics Administration, undertook to secure
the transport aircraft from the civil airlines. Of the fifty requested,
however, only twenty could be spared by the airlines, and no Army
planes were available." And when the job of getting the planes to
Africa was given the Air Corps, General Arnold found that neither
military nor civilian crews with the necessary experience were imme-
diately available. T h e few experienced Army crews could not be
spared; and the country had long since been combed for civilian pilots
and navigators for the North Atlantic ferrying service.3oRather than
ship the planes by water, the ferrying job was turned over to Pan
American A i r w a y ~ , ~ 'whose experience in the development of com-
mercial airlines through Latin America already had been turned to
advantage in the effort to extend and strengthen hemisphere de-
f e n s e ~ . ~ 'As early as November 1940, Pan American had been made
the agent of the United States government in carrying out the so-
called Airport Development Program (ADP) for the construction
and improvement of airports on foreign territory throughout the
Caribbean area, Central America, and Brazil, as well as in Liberia.
Panair do Brasil, a Pan American subsidiary, had undertaken at Belem
and Natal the development with ADP funds of facilities destined to
serve as major ferrying and transport bases along the South Atlantic
route. Other bases that would be used principally for defensive pur-
poses, but which provided emergency landing fields for transient
aircraft, were constructed through Pan American agencies in Cuba,
Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela.33 O n 29 May 1941,
an agreement between Atlantic Airways, Ltd., and the British gov-
ernment was drawn up for delivery of the twenty t r a n ~ p o r t s . ~ ~T h e
British agreed to meet all expenses and to furnish the navigators.
Atlantic Airways obtained the pilots from several sources, principally
from the Lockheed Company on a loan basis. A sufficient number
were found to ferry the planes to Africa in flights of ten or less.35
O n the night of 2 1 June 1941the first flight of ten transports took
off from Miami, Florida, bound for Port of Spain, Trinidad. The
next stop was at Belem, Brazil. Here the crews were arrested and held
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