“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 I R S E R V I C E I N W O R L D W A R I
tration of the war, adverse rumors began to be noised about. Rumors
were followed by disclosures, disclosures by congressional and presi-
dential investigations. In the spring it became obvious that, in spite of
the patent falsity of charges of graft and sabotage, the program was
failing; the huge cloud of planes which was to have darkened German
skies by June was as yet hardly larger than a man’s hand. Actually the
first U.S.-built DH-4 with Liberty engine was shipped from Hoboken
on 1 5 March and was airborne in France on 1 7 May, two months
after the great German offensive had been launched.ls In the mean-
while, the widely advertised threat of American air power had
spurred German plane production; the enemy sardonically dubbed
his intensified efforts of I 9 I 7 the Amerikaprogramnm.
Disillusionment in the United States was painful, but it brought
speedy reform. With legislative authority granted by the Overman
Act of 2 0 May 1918,President Wilson by executive order removed
Army aviation from the jurisdiction of the Signal Corps. Responsi-
bilities for training and operations were vested in a Director of Mili-
tary Aeronautics (Maj. Gen. William L. Kenly). A new executive
agency, the Bureau of Aircraft Production, was “to exercise full and
exclusive jurisdiction and control over production of aeroplanes,
engines, and aircraft equipment” for the Army; the bureau was con-
nected with the Aircraft Board by interlocking membership. The
new organization was soon officially recognized as the Air Service,
U.S. Army; but, inasmuch as its two components reported separately
to the Secretary of War, there was in reality no common policy for
the makers and users of planes. This functional duality was long to
plague the Army air arm; for the time being it was mitigated by the
appointment on 27 August of the civilian head of the Bureau of Air-
craft Production, Mr. John D. Ryan, as Director of Air Service (over
both phases of aviation) and as Second Assistant Secretary of War.lg
The latter appointment was a move in the direction of separate cabinet
representation for air, a measure which had been previously suggested
in Congress and which was proving successful in England. But the
arrangement was only a wartime expedient which recognized a cleav-
age within the War Department without providing a permanent
solution for the problems involved.
Under the new regime production increased rapidly, though it is
only fair to point out that many of the most stubborn dlaculties were
already yielding on the eve of the reorganization. Statistics emanating
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