“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…
A I R T R A N S P O R T A N D F E R R Y I N G
the various installations by water transport and, to a limited extent,
by air. T h e transportation and storage of sufficient supplies of gasoline
alone constituted a logistical problem of considerable magnitude. Spare
parts for each type of aircraft to be ferried over the route had to be
stocked at each of the bases. With none of the stations was it possible
to maintain unhindered water communications a t all times. Goose
Bay was accessible by water only from early June to October. BW-8,
above the Arctic Circle, enjoyed a shipping season of surprising
length, being open about six months of the year. But the weather
station at CRYSTAL I11 could be reached by water for only about
six weeks of the late summer and early fall. Enemy submarines were
a constant menace along the shipping lanes, as were ice floes, heavy
fogs, and submerged reefs in uncharted areas.133
Principally because of the extreme shortage of transport aircraft,
only a limited number of personnel and a relatively small quantity of
supplies and equipment could be moved into the bases by air. But even
during the winter, the Ferrying Command was able to operate a small-
scale air transport service into Goose Bay in support of the con-
struction work. With a single C-39, the command began moving
contractor’s personnel and supplies from Moncton, New Brunswick,
to Goose Bay three days after Pearl Harbor.134In mid-February 1942,
this C-39 military service was replaced by a contract carrier service
operated by Northeast Airlines. Northeast maintained for some
months a regular service between Presque Isle and Goose Bay by way
of bases in Newfoundland and later extended its flights into Green-
land, Iceland, and Britain.135Before June, when the Eighth Air Force
began its air movement along the route, two other contract airlines
conducted survey flights and opened regular transport services over
the North Atlantic. Transcontinental & Western Air began to fly its
Stratoliners over the route in April, going all the way into Prest-
During the same month, American Airlines, under contract
to the Air Service Command, opened a service to Labrador, Baffin
Island, and G~een1and.l~’In the weeks immediately preceding the
start of the Eighth’s movement, the 60th Transport Group, a unit of
that air force equipped with C-47’s, gave considerable assistance in
moving supplies and men into the bases.‘38
Army Air Forces Headquarters, the Ferrying Command, and other
interested AAF agencies were able to. keep in touch with activities
at the bases by means of numerous survey flights sent out over the
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