“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
the Army and the Navy (the latter organized its own Naval Air
Transport Service on I Z December 1941) was for land planes or fly-
ing boats capable of long-range operations with sizable payloads.
Although some 406 multi-engine transports were operated within or
beyond the continental limits of the United States by American com-
mercial airlines before Pearl Harbor,15zall but a handful of these were
two-engine planes, incapable of carrying a payload over such long
overwater jumps as that from Brazil to Africa, from California to
Hawaii, or from Newfoundland to Britain. When the United States
entered the war the only types of four-engine transport planes in
being and ready for use were the Boeing Clipper and the Martin
M-I 3 0 flying boats, the Boeing Stratoliner land plane, and the modi-
fied B-24 Liberator. Only twelve Clippers were in existence, of which
three had already been sold to Britain and one to the War Depart-
ment, while eight were still owned by Pan American Airways. Pan
American also owned the two existing Martin flying boats, while
Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., held title to the Stratoliners,
of which there were only The Ferrying Command was oper-
ating eleven B-24’s on the eve of Pearl Harbor.154This list completes
the inventory of four-engine equipment ready for use; and it had to
be divided between the Army and Navy.
On the first Sunday following Pearl Harbor, the Assistant Secre-
tary of War for Air called into conference a special aviation com-
mittee to consider the air transportation requirements of the Army,
Navy, and the commercial airlines and to arrive at a fair and just
allocation of available equipment. Representatives were present from
the Ferrying Command, the Navy, Civil Aeronautics Administration,
Civil Aeronautics Board, Pan American Airways, Transcontinental
& Western Air, and other interested government and private agencies.
At the meeting, an informal agreement was reached between the War
and Navy departments whereby five of the eight Clippers which Pan
American had already agreed to sell to the War Department and the
two Martin flying boats would be turned over to the Navy. Later,
when other long-range aircraft could be substituted for them, the
other three Clippers, plus the one that the War Department had
purchased in August 1941, were likewise to be transferred to the
In the way of four-engine equipment the War Department
was left, then, with four of the Boeing Clippers, the five Stratoliners
which were purchased from T W A by terms of a contract of 24
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