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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
essential to the normal operation of any air route. T h e need for a
widespread network of weather stations through the North Atlantic
was especially great. Weather phenomena in the area-icing, fogs,
turbulence, and thunderstorms-are associated with the southward
movement of polar air masses from the Arctic and the movement
north of warm air from the tropics. When these two dissimilar masses
of air meet, a "front" is formed and at this point occurs much of the
weather so hazardous to flying. T h e principal job of the weather men
of the north was to locate these fronts and to plot and forecast their
movements, which were generally from west to east, in order to en-
able pilots to know when to fly and when not to fly along a given
route. Accuracy of forecasts depended on the experience of the
weather observers and on the amount of data obtained. T h e latter
in turn depended on the number of stations re~0rting.l'~
Between March and December 1941, the Army Air Forces had
established the framework of a weather service from Maine to Ice-
land, into which organization were drawn a number of Canadian and
Danish stations. Weather and communications from Iceland into Brit-
ain remained for some time the responsibility of the British. T h e first
AAF weather station in the North Atlantic area was opened at
Gander Lake in March 1941 to serve air defense units soon to be sent
into Newfoundland.lZ6Thereafter, as new bases were established
along the far northern ferrying route, weather and communications
men moved in and set up their observation and radio facilities. T e n
enlisted weather specialists accompanied the American advance task
force into southern Greenland in July 1941. Six of them proceeded
a t once to set up weather and radio facilities in a tent at BW-I. T h e
other four and one communications specialist were transferred to the
Coast Guard cutter Northland and voyaged up the east coast of
Greenland to install new radio and meteorological equipment at a
number of Danish stations scattered along the coast as far north as
E~kirnonaes.~''T h e Danish stations became an integral and important
link in the AAF weather network. T w o other American weather
stations in Greenland were opened, at BW-8 on the west coast and at
BLUIE E A S T z (BE-2) near Angmagssalik on the east coast during
1941.''' In September of that year, task forces were sent into north-
ern Labrador and to Baffin Island to establish three weather stations
a t points surveyed earlier by an Army and Navy group under Captain
R o ~ s e v e l t . ~ * ~These were the three CRYSTAL stations, located in
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