“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
T h e newly created Air Transport Command consisted of two main
divisions, the Ferrying Division and the Air Transportation Division,
corresponding roughly to the two primary responsibilities of the com-
mand.IQ3At the time it was redesignated and given its enlarged mis-
sion, the command was already in the process of reorganization. Five
major field organizations, known as wings, were constituted on 1 2
June 1942 and activated at various dates during the latter part of the
month.’’* Initially, they were known as the 23d through the 27th
AAF Ferrying wings, but the command soon requested and secured
a change to more descriptive geographical names. On 5 July, they were
redesignated the North Atlantic, Caribbean, South Atlantic, Africa-
Middle East, and South Pacific wings.’95 Through these field organi-
zations or subheadquarters, and others that were created later, the
command was able to exercise more direct and closer supervision over
both its ferrying and transport activities, which were by now becom-
ing world-wide in scope and were growing to such an extent that the
old highly centralized control exercised by the Ferrying Command
was no longer practicable.
During the thirteen months of its existence, the Ferrying Command
had grown from an original staff of two officers and a civilian secre-
tary to a strength of over I 1,000officers and enlisted men, in addition
to its civilian employees and those of the civil air carriers operating
under its supervision. As the name implies, ferrying had been its main
job, and during the period its pilots ferried 13,595 aircraft to final
domestic destinations, while 632 planes were delivered to foreign
destinations under the supervision of the command.19a T h e ferrying
activity continued to increase as more aircraft were turned out by the
factories, as new combat units became ready for deployment overseas,
and as the need for battle replacements grew; but after the organiza-
tion became the Air Transport Command and when it became the
single strategic aerial supply arm of the W a r Department, more and
more emphasis came to be placed on the air transportation function.
Air transport had passed beyond the stage of being primarily a courier
service or an adjunct to ferrying; it was well on the way to becoming
a major instrument of logistical support to combat operations on the
ground and in the air. More than 1 3 0 two- and four-engine transport
aircraft had become available to the command by I July 1942,of which
10 or 15 were being flown by military crews and the remainder by
the contract carriers.le7 A large number of these had come from new
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