“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
for the use of BW-8 contemplated also a landing field on the east
coast of Greenland on the direct line of flight to Iceland, but surveys
conducted during 1941 by Capt. Elliott Roosevelt and others failed
to locate a suitable site for an airdrome.120A satisfactory site near
Angmagssalik was found the following summer, and construction of
the landing strip was completed in the fall of 1942.~" The route
through BW-8 was planned as an alternate line of flight for aircraft
moving from Goose Bay to Iceland during the periods when bad
weather made landings impossible a t BW-I or when facilities a t the
latter base were overloaded. Surprisingly enough, the flying weather
proved to be better along the alternate route through BW-8 and
across the icecap of central Greenland than to the south along the
route through BW-1.lZ2
T w o British airdromes in Iceland, at Reykjavik and Kaldadarnes,
had been developed prior to the arrival of the first American occupa-
tion forces in July 1941. Built to accommodate the lighter types of
aircraft used for defensive purposes, neither of the fields was suitable
for large-scale ferrying of multi-engine bombers, and considerable
improvement of the two bases became necessary in 1942. Sites for two
other bases were found in the Keflavik area, and construction of what
were to become Meeks and Patterson fields was begun in the spring
At the western end of the North Atlantic route the principal termi-
nal bases were located a t Presque Isle and Houlton, Maine, and a t
Dorval airport near Montreal. Prestwick in Scotland became the east-
ern terminal of the route, with Stornoway in the Hebrides serving as
an alternate landing field. The Presque Isle and Houlton bases had
been planned originally to serve as transfer points at which Ferrying
Command crews would turn over aircraft to the British for trans-
oceanic delivery. Construction of facilities at the bases was authorized
in August 1941, and the work proceeded through the fall under the
direction of Ferrying Command control officers. The Presque Isle
base, ready for limited operations by October, became the main port
of embarkation for American aircraft flying the Atlantic either direct
or by the short-range route. Here, in January 1942, the headquarters
of the newly activated North Atlantic Sector of the Ferrying Com-
mand was established. Houlton became an alternate landing field.lz4
All of these preparations would have been incomplete without pro-
vision for the weather service and communications system which are
Of 1942
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