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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
a t best only fifteen to twenty hours of four-engine flying time before
leaving Tampa. In addition to, and partly because of, the inexperience
of crews, special problems of morale and discipline de~eloped.’~Con-
trol officers stationed along the route, often themselves new and inex-
perienced in their tasks, a t times felt the lack of that kind of authority
which belongs only to a recognized and well-established position.
Equally serious were shortages of gas and oil, primitive refueling and
maintenance facilities, and an inadequate weather and communications
network. The single problem of providing a sufficient supply of gas
and oil a t refueling points was staggering in itself. An estimated 500,-
ooo to I ,ooo,ooo gallons of I oo-octane gasoline with proportionate
amounts of lubricating oil were required a t each of a dozen control
points. Nearly all of this had to come by tanker from the United
States. Although a roo-octane refinery existed at Abadan in the Middle
East, an estimated 90 per cent of its production was required by the
RAF to meet current operational commitments. The gasoline had to
be shipped and stored in bulk and this required that the shipment of
materials for tank construction precede that of the gasoline itself.gs
The speed with which the Project X movement was undertaken
made it impossible for the Ferrying Command to build up in time a
supply of spare parts a t intermediate bases, and this one factor was
probably more responsible than any other for the numerous delays
en route. Except for the few spares carried by each airplane and some
Liberator parts stocked by the RAF a t Cairo, all spare parts had to be
shipped from the United States. Cannibalization enabled some of the
grounded planes to continue on their way, but those that had been
robbed and those suffering major damage had to wait for the parts to
be moved out by air, when possible, or by water. T h e small amount of
air cargo space available at the time, the priority given to high-ranking
military personnel traveling by air, and the almost total lack of trans-
port planes capable of carrying complete engine assemblies made the
movement of supplies by air more than difficult. Some spares were
shipped to West Africa by water and then distributed to points in
Africa and India by Pan American planes. T h e shortage of mainte-
nance crews at most points forced the combat crews to do their own
maintenance work after long and fatiguing flights. Some help was
given by a Ferrying Command trouble-shooting crew sent along the
route in February to make such special or major repairs as were be-
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