“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
Natal toward the end of June, at which time the operation came under
the control of the newly created Air Transport Command.la5 With
the build-up of the two-engine services to Natal, it became possible to
concentrate the four-engine transports on the Atlantic crossing where
full advantage could be taken of their capacity for carrying heavy
payloads on long-range flights. By June the Pan American Clippers
were flying only the transoceanic leg of the route except for necessary
trips back to New York for inspection and overhaul. In the same
month five new B-qD's, flown by military crews of the Ferrying
Command, were placed on the South Atlantic crossing. During the
spring and early summer of 1942, heavy backlogs of cargo and pas-
sengers had piled up at both Miami and Natal, reaching almost un-
manageable proportions; but the increased number of planes in use
by June and the more frequent schedules made it possible to reduce
the backlogs gradually and to assure thereafter a more even flow of
traffic to Africa, India, and China.166
Throughout the first half of 1942, and, indeed, until considerably
later, the South Atlantic remained by far the most important of the
overseas air transport routes, just as it supported the heaviest ferried
traffic during the same period. Other routes, however, were being
opened, and some eventually carried a heavier flow of air traffic than
the route to Africa and southern Asia. In the North Atlantic, as we
have seen, new contract services were inaugurated during the winter
and spring of 1942 in order, first, to speed the completion of air bases
in preparation for the movement of the Eighth Air Force, and, when
this was accomplished, to support the movement itself and to estab-
lish regularly scheduled services into Great Britain. Under terms of
a contract of 3 I January I 942, Northeast Airlines, equipped originally
with two C-53's, opened a transport service to Goose Bay in mid-
February and to Greenland in the early spring. Northeast sent its first
flight into Iceland in May, and in July, with more planes available,
extended its operations to Prestwick, Scotland.'" American Airlines
entered into a contract with the government, approved on 4 April
1942, to provide a transport service between New York and Rey-
kjavik, Iceland. Originally undertaken for the Air Service Command,
the operation passed to the control of the Air Transport Command
early in July.168O n 13 April, Transcontinental & Western Air dis-
patched its first Stratoliner flight over the North Atlantic to the
United Kingdom, thus reopening a through service that had been
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