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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 I1
strategic positions for observing the course of air masses moving down
from the Arctic regions of Canada. CRYSTAL I was located at Fort
Chimo, Labrador; CRYSTAL I1 at the head of Frobisher Bay, Baffin
Island; and CRYSTAL 111 on Padloping Island, jusr off the northeast
coast of Baffin Island.13"
Nine months of work had gone into the building of the far north-
em route by the time the United States became an active belligerent.
But more than six months of preparations on a much larger scale re-
mained before the route would be ready to support heavy movements
of aircraft to Europe. During the winter months that followed Pearl
Harbor very little progress could be made, especially in the building
or extension of permanent runways and parking aprons. More favor-
able weather in the spring of 1942 permitted the speed-up of con-
struction activities at all points along the route, but a t the same time
it brought its own additional problems. At Goose Bay the compacted
snow runways, satisfactory enough during the winter, began to soften
with the spring thaw, necessitating a heavy covering of gravel. By
June, one rolled gravel runway 6,000 feet long was ready and two
others were under construction. Because the housing, messing, main-
tenance, and other facilities provided by the Canadian government
a t Goose Bay were inadequate for anticipated needs, the United
States requested and secured authority in the summer to construct
an entirely separate establishment, complete in every respect, on the
opposite side of the airdrome from the RCAF ~ t a t i 0 n . l ~ ~At BLUIE
W E S T I there had been completed by June one steel mat runway
5,000 feet long and another was under construction, while BW-8
had one good 5,000-foot gravel and clay landing strip. The Reykjavik
airport in Iceland had three concrete runways, but two of these were
capable of accommodating only the lighter types of airplanes and the
third was less than 4,700 feet in length. Neither of the two American
bases under construction in Iceland-Meeks and Patterson fields near
Keflavik-was usable during I 942.American air force personnel were
concentrated at the RAF base a t Reykjavik, occupying facilities on
the opposite side of the field from the British. The Presnvick airdrome
in Scotland, having one concrete runway 6,600 feet long, was well
equipped as a terminal
While construction work proceeded during the spring and summer,
thousands of tons of supplies, including building materials, snow re-
moval equipment, gasoline, food, and aircraft parts were moving into
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