“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
plane mechanics in the labor market, the company found it necessary
also to set up organized courses of instruction in all types of airplane
maintenance and mechanical
Pan American Air Ferries actually delivered only a dozen aircraft
prior to Pearl Harbor, and all of these were transports for use on the
transAfrican run.48After the United States entered the war, deliv-
eries by PAAF pilots increased month by month. By the time the
personnel and facilities of the organization were militarized a t the
end of 1942, some 464 planes had been delivered over the South
Atlantic to the Middle East and the Far East by PAAF crews4’
In order to establish the flying boat service to West Africa, the
United States purchased for the sum of $900,000 one of Pan Amer-
ican’s famous four-engine Clippers, a Boeing B-3 14A withdrawn
from the Pacific. It was then leased to the contractor for the nominal
fee of one dollar.50The plane accommodated a crew of eleven and
sixty-eight day passengers or thirty-six sleeping passengers, with mail
and cargo holds having a total capacity of approximately five
Only one trip over the route, a survey flight, was made before 7
December.52 Soon after the United States entered the war, the
Clipper fleet was increased and a regular service was established over
the route: Miami-San Juan (Puerto Rico) -Port of Spain (Trinidad) -
Belem-Natal-Fisherman’s Lake (Liberia) -Lagos (Nigeria), with occa-
sional trips as far as Leopoldville (Belgian Congo) .53
Perhaps the most important link in the whole system of Pan Amer-
ican ferrying and transport services was the operation across central
Africa. In providing a transport service and in maintaining the bases,
Pan American Airways-Africa supported the movement across the
continent of aircraft arriving from both the United States and Great
Britain. Terminal points were established by terms of the contract
a t Bathurst on the west coast and a t Khartoum in eastern Africa,
but after 7 December the service was extended to Cairo and beyond.54
Before operations could begin, Pan American was faced with the
problem of assembling in the United States an administrative staff,
employing some hundreds of technicians, recruiting and training the
pilots, and transporting all of these, together with tons of material,
a third of the way around the world to Africa. The headquarters was
established a t the main base a t Accra on 8 October 1941. This step
was followed by the gradual taking over of other bases on the route
during October, November, and December as additional personnel
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