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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…
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
yond the capabilities of the combat crews or the local Pan American
maintenance
The staging of Project X aircraft and crews a t MacDill Field ex-
tended over a period of about two months. During that time some
fifty-eight heavy bombers of the projected eighty departed for the
Far East over the southeastern route, while eight went out over the
South Pacific route. In spite of many delays along the way, forty-four
of the sixty-six bombers were delivered to the Southwest Pacific area
over both routes by late February. Others were diverted to the Tenth
Air Force in India after the route from India to Australia was closed;
some had served as a source of spare parts to put the others through.
Four of the B-17’s were lost completely either in crashes or over the
Atlantic, another landed in a swamp a t Belem, one was forced to return
to the United States for repairs, and one was delayed in Africa await-
ing repairs even as late as May 1 9 4 2 . ~ ~Although none of the bombers
reached the Philippines, most of them were put to use in Australia or
on other fronts. It was a good record considering the pioneer nature
of the job, the inexperienced and poorly trained crews, and the neces-
sity for building a ferrying route organization through the South
Atlantic and across Africa and India while the movement was in prog-
ress. In assuming the major share of responsibility for controlling the
movement, the Ferrying Command had gained much valuable experi-
ence that would prove useful as the ferrying job increased in scope
with the growing intensity of the war in Europe and in the Pacific.
After February I 942 all aircraft flight-delivered to the Southwest
Pacific were staged at West Coast bases and flown out by way of
Hawaii and the chain of island steppingstones extending down to
Australia. The number of planes delivered for a time was small, but
steady progress was made in the construction or improvement of bases
and in the installation of weather and communications facilities in
preparation for the heavier movements that would come in the sum-
mer and fall.96 Ferrying Command personnel made some of the de-
liveries, and in April two LB-~o’swere assigned to the route for the
return of ferry crews to the United States. But the Ferrying Com-
mand, of which Col. Harold L. George assumed command that same
month, continued to be concerned primarily with the problems of the
Atlantic air routes. Only gradually would it develop into a truly
world-wide and uniform air transport system.
With the cutting of the India-Australia air link and the consequent
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