“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
Middle East. Water shipment of the fifty P-40E Kittyhawks con-
signed to the American Volunteer Group began in February. Arrange-
ments were made for use of the British assembly plant a t Takoradi,
where the planes were prepared for the overland movement. Losses
were suffered en route, but by June most of the original fifty
had crossed into China.lo7A larger movement of sixty-eight P-4oE’s
for India and China began as the AVG deliveries were being com-
pleted. Comprising one element of a general reinforcement of the
Tenth Air Force, the P-40’s were flown to Quonset Point, Rhode
Island, in late April and there aircraft and crews were loaded on the
carrier Ranger. As the Ranger approached the west coast of Africa,
the fighters were launched at distances of 1 2 5 to 2 5 miles from the
landing field a t Accra. Although only a few of the pilots had pre-
viously flown from the deck of a carrier, all took off safely and landed
without mishap. But they were less fortunate in crossing central
Africa. T w o of the eight-plane convoys into which the P-40’S were
organized became lost over the African desert because of navigational
errors. As a result, nine of the fighters cracked up. Other difficulties
were encountered and numerous delays experienced; perhaps no more
than fifty-eight of the planes eventually reached India.’ Karachi had
become, generally speaking, the terminal point for Ferrying Com-
mand operations to the East, and until December 1942 the responsi-
bility for development of the trans-India service into China fell to
the 1st Ferrying Group and thus came under the jurisdiction of the
Tenth Air Force.*
Twin-engine transport planes were the only aircraft to be ferried
to British forces in Africa during the first six months of 1942. In June,
when Rommel’s offensive reached its most threatening stage, the first
tactical aircraft began to arrive. They were not in sufficient number
to be of much help in stopping Rommel at El Alamein, but during
the late summer and fall an increasing flow of twin-engine bombers
departed from Florida to become a part of the great movement of
supplies into Africa in preparation for Montgomery’s offensive in
October. Between June and the end of the year, 398 Lockheed and
Martin medium bombers-including I 2 0 B-34’s, I 53 A-28’~,45 B-26’s,
and 80 A-3o’s-were ferried to British forces in Africa by crews of Pan
American Air Ferries or by American and British military crews.loQ
At the same time, the forces gathering under the leadership of General
* See below, Chap. 14.
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