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- 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
trol of the commanding general of the US.Army Forces in the Far
East. Karachi was the gateway to India through which all transient
aircraft going farther than the Middle East had to pass. Here the
Ferrying Command placed a control officer early in January 1942
just as the first of the heavy bombers were moving through on the
way to the Far East.s7 The flight commanders of the second group
of bombers, the B - I ~ ’ s ,were ordered to proceed as far as Bangalore
in southern India, a t which point they were to report by secret means
to General MacArthur and await further orders. When it became
apparent by early January that the delivery of the heavy bombers as
far as the Philippines was a hopeless undertaking, amended orders
were issued naming Australia, rather than the Philippines, as the desti-
nation.” All flights were then directed to report upon arrival a t
Bangalore to General Brett at Darwin, Australia, and await orders.
Lt. Col. Edward H. Alexander, then in China, was sent to Bangalore
to act as Ferrying Command control officer.”
Although the staging of the heavy bombers and crews at MacDill
Field came under the control of the Third Air Force, the Ferrying
Command was given certain responsibilities in connection with the
final processing at Tampa. In late December the command sent Lt.
Louis T. Reichers and another officer to MacDill Field to assist in
loading the bombers for overseas flight in accordance with established
weight and balance specifications. Upon arriving at the field, Reichers
found that the LB-3o’s then being processed were overloaded with all
sorts of miscellaneous and excess equipment. H e removed an average
of over 3,000 pounds from each plane and made arrangements to ship
such of this equipment as would be needed in the combat zone by the
Pan American transport service. All planes were brought down below
the absolute maximum weight allowed for safe flying. The planes were
to be flown by their own combat crews, and Reichers naturally found
many of the young officers and men making up the crews inexperi-
enced, untrained in long-distance flight procedures, and jittery. As
with most human beings facing the unknown, some were obviously
in fear of the long flight over ocean, jungle, and desert. It was clear
that additional training prior to take-off would be needed if a high
accident rate was to I be avoided, but the pressure for speed in the
movement of urgently needed reinforcements was such that permis-
sion to delay the take-off was granted only after an appeal to Wash-
ington.’O
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