“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
December 1941, and the B-24’s. With the exception of a few addi-
tional Liberators converted to transports, these were all the four-
engine planes that were available for overseas operations by the
Ferrying Command and the contract carriers during the first six months
of the war. The Douglas Skymaster, or C-54, which was to become the
mainstay of long-range transport later in the war, was not yet ready,
although the first numbers were in production and were turned over
for testing during the summer. The C-87, a fundamental modification
of the Consolidated Liberator, built especially for transport purposes,
did not come into use until August or September of 1942.
Almost a t once after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a part of the four-
engine equipment controlled by the War Department was thrown into
the desperate effort to reinforce and hold the Philippines. Certain
critical items of supply-.So-cal. ammunition and aircraft parts espe-
cially-were needed badly by the air forces remaining to MacArthur,
and air transport offered the only means of getting them there quickly
and on time. In China, the American Volunteer Group was awaiting
the shipment of P-40 parts to enable Chennault to keep his few
fighters in the air. The only approach by air at this time, as indicated
earlier in the discussion of the heavy bomber movement to the Far
East, was by way of the southeastern route and across Africa and
southern Asia. On 1 3 December a new contract was entered into by
the War Department and Pan American Airways by which the latter
agreed to sell the remainder of its four-engine equipment and, using
a portion of that equipment on lease, to open a transport service be-
tween the United States and Singapore by way of Africa and India.156
Within a week, one of the newly purchased Clippers departed for
Calcutta loaded with P-40 parts for Chennault. Before the month was
out, two other Clippers left New York for the Far East, each carry-
ing a full load of .So-cal. ammunition destined for MacArthur’s forces
in the phi lip pine^.'^^ In the meantime, three of the Ferrying Com-
mand’s B-24’s manned by military crews were diverted from their
normal operations between Washington and Cairo and sent to the Far
East. A plan now emerged whereby the Clippers would take the
ammunition as far as Darwin, Australia, a t which point it would be
picked up by the B-24’s and flown into the Philippines. Because of
the rapidly deteriorating tactical situation, however, the plan could
not be put into effect. When the Clippers got as far as Calcutta, they
were ordered to return across India to Karachi and there unload the
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