“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
closed down since the preceding October when the Ferrying Com-
mand had been forced to discontinue its B-24 shuttle service. There-
after, three of TWA's Stratoliners operated regularly over the North
Atlantic into Britain.169
War with Japan had also focused attention on the alarmingly inade-
quate state of United States defenses in Alaska and brought about an
early speed-up in work already under way toward the establishment
of an air route to the northwest. In December 1941,the air bases and
weather and communications facilities along the inland route through
Canada, running east of the Rocky Mountains and crossing over
through Whitehorse to Fairbanks, were in a state that might be
described as usable under optimum conditions."' These conditions did
not exist in the winter of 1941-42,as was discovered in January when
an attempt to ferry twenty-five P-40's and thirteen B-26's along the
route met with disaster." On 2 0 February 1942, the U.S. government
entered into a contract with Northwest Airlines, giving that organi-
zation the main responsibility for further development of the inland
Not only was Northwest to operate an air transport service;
it was also to make whatever improvements were required to enable
the route to support the flow of ferried military traffic that was antici-
pated. The transport service provided a means for the quick return
of ferrying crews following the completion of deliveries and assured
a fast mail service as well as air cargo space for the movement of a
limited amount of urgently needed supplies, such as airplane parts and
communications equipment, and essential personnel. By terms of the
contract, terminal points were established at Fargo, North Dakota,
and Fairbanks, but the southern terminus was soon shifted to Minne-
apolis, where cargo for air shipment could more easily be assembled.
Northwest dispatched its first survey flight on 2 7 February, which
was followed during March by a series of shuttles to familiarize pilots
with the route and to deploy personnel and materials required for
regularly scheduled operation^.'^^
Quantitatively viewed, the Alaskan operation was of little conse-
quence before the last days of May. Reports of Northwest Airlines
show that in the period from 2 1 March through 3 0 April approxi-
mately 1 7 0 tons of cargo and 2 5 8 passengers were carried, and that
the corresponding figures for the month of May were 240 tons and
63 I passengers. About one-third of the April total and more than half
* See above, pp. 303-4.
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