“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
of that for May consisted of what the railroads describe as “company
traffic,” that is, supplies and equipment for Northwest’s own stations.
Part of the remainder was carried for the engineers a t work on the
Alaskan highway.lT3
T w o other airlines began operations in the northwest during the
spring of 1942,both under the supervision of the Air Service Com-
mand. In mid-April, Western Air Lines opened a contract service
from points in the United States to Edmonton, Alberta. The service
was established primarily to transport cargo from air depots within
the United States to Edmonton, but it also furnished a connecting link
by means of which returning ferrying crews were able to get from
Northwest Airlines’ facilities at Edmonton to commercial facilities at
Great Falls, M ~ n t a n a . ” ~A subsidiary of United Air Lines was
awarded a contract on 4 April 1942 to operate two DC-3’s on a one-
trip-a-week basis from air depots at Dayton, Ohio, and Ogden, Utah,
to Fairbanks by way of Edmonton. The first survey flights were flown
on 17 April, and regular service began on 1 5 May.175A new contract
with United, approved on 25 June, authorized additional services from
Dayton to Anchorage, Alaska, aIrd from Edmonton to Anchorage.17’
The developing Japanese threat to the Aleutians in late May 1942
and the actual attack early in June brought about a sudden and rapid
increase in both transport and ferrying operations along the north-
west route. Existing transport schedules were speeded up and the
routes extended and, in addition, the personnel and resources of other
airlines were hastily mobilized for emergency support to military
forces in Alaska. On 13 June, eleven airlines were ordered to send all
available planes to Edmonton. Commercial schedules were canceled,
passengers were dropped at the nearest airport, crews took off without
even changes of clothing, and within the next several days forty-six
airplanes were concentrated at the Edmonton base. Routes were
quickly assigned. Northwest continued to fly its existing routes with
an extension to Dayton and Anchorage. United Air Lines concen-
trated on the routes from Patterson Field, Ohio, to Anchorage and
from Salt Lake City to Fairbanks. Pennsylvania Central shuttled
between Dayton and Edmonton. The other airlines flew cargo from
various air depots in the United States to Alaskan points. Both North-
west and United made numerous trips to Nome, particularly in the
last days of June when Japanese activity was reported in the vicinity.
The garrison at Nome was built up overnight, entirely by air.177
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