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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
crews of Pan American Air Ferries, some were flown out by military
crews.1o2 Lend-lease A-20's for the Russians began to arrive in the
Persian Gulf area by water transport as early as January 1942,'03 but
not until the following October were the first deliveries of these
Douglas light attack bombers completed by air."
Following the collapse of the Allied effort in Java, urgent demands
for reinforcements came from Burma, China, and India, where the
American Volunteer Group, the newly established Tenth Air Force,
and the Chinese Air Force sought the means for a continued resistance
to the Japanese. Fifty P-4oE's had been allocated to the A V G in Jan-
uary, and during the same month thirty-three A-29 Hudsons had been
earmarked under lend-lease for the Chinese."' From beginning to
end, the A-29 movement was beset with trouble, vexatious delays, and
untimely accidents. T h e aircraft were in poor mechanical condition
when taken over by the ferrying crews and were overloaded with
medical and other supplies for China before arriving at Morrison
Field in late June for final staging. These factors, together with the
relative inexperience of many of the crews, were responsible for an
unusually high accident rate. Three planes were lost in crashes before
the project left the United States, and six others were similarly lost
in the course of the movement overseas. Because of Rommel's threat
to Egypt that summer, the A-29's were held up in the Middle East
for a time and might have been assigned permanently to General
Brereton's forces there had not the persistent demands of the Chinese
brought about their release. Of the thirty-three planes originally allo-
cated, twenty-two were turned over to the Chinese Air Force during
the summer and fa1l.lo6
While it was impracticable to ferry fighter aircraft over the whole
of the southeastern route, they were moved in large numbers under
their own power over the land route from West African bases to the
Middle East, India, and China. As early as 1940 the British had begun
shipping fighters and two-engine bombers by water to Takoradi,
where they were assembled and then ferried across Africa to Cairo.
Within a few months after Pearl Harbor, the United States also began
to make use of combined water and air supply lines in moving P-40's
to the American Volunteer Group in China, to the Tenth Air Force
in India, and during the summer of 1942 to American air units in the
* Seventy-one were delivered in October, sixty in November, and seven in De-
cember.
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