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- 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…
L O S S O F N E T H E R L A N D S E A S T I N D I E S
for defense of the bases, and for the varied machinery and equip-
ment upon which an air force depends. As already noted,” a review
of shipping priorities brought a decision to reduce the size of a convoy
scheduled to sail on I 5 January for Northern Ireland and Iceland with
the result that room was provided for 10,000 ground troops for New
Caledonia, a key point in the defense of sea and air routes through the
South Pacific, and for more than I 1,000 troops to serve as “ground
staffs” for AAF units in Australia. Shipping difficulties were further
eased by arrangements made with the British for use of the Queen
Mary and the newly built Queen Elizabeth as troop transports, their
service from N e w York and San Francisco, respectively, to begin early
in F e b r ~ a r y . ’ ~But such measures could be effective in a defense of
the Netherlands East Indies only if the interim expedients resorted
to proved sufficient to hold the enemy for a while.
Among the efforts to strengthen Allied defenses immediately was
an attempt, in addition to the ferrying operation, to provide air trans-
port from the United States of urgently needed equipment and sup-
plies. A contract on 3 I December with Pan American Airways sought
an extension of its transport services from Khartoum to Darwin. To
accomplish this, it was necessary for Pan American to negotiate
contracts with foreign airlines, particularly with Knilm, a Dutch com-
pany, and with Qantas of Australia; and the organization of an effec-
tive service required time-more time than events allowed. The effort
proved to be more important for its contribution to an extension of
air transport from Africa to India, from where this modern aid to
logistical mobility would play a major role in the later operations of
the China-Burma-India theater, than for the assistance now provided
for the ABDA forces. Within the theater itself an important step
toward overcoming some of the more difficult problems of transporta-
tion and communication was marked by activation on 2 8 January of
the first American air transport unit in Australia. None of its original
complement of fourteen officers and nineteen enlisted men had been
trained for transport operations-they were just the men who hap-
pened to be most readily available. Equally miscellaneous were the
aircraft assigned to the unit: two old B-18’s and one C-39 which had
been flown down from the Philippines and five new C-53’s recently
arrived from the United States. O n 4 February, Capt. Paul I. Gunn,
formerly manager of the Philippine Airlines and as “Pappy” Gunn
See above, p. 243.
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