“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
February-made it possible to send some of the B - I ~ D ' sof the 19th
Group down to Australia for a depot overhaul. The imminent arrival
of ground crews of the 7th Group also helped to make possible the
occupation of a new base at Jogjakarta, 150 miles west of Malang.
Preparations at the field, occupation of which would eliminate a dan-
gerous concentration of all American bombers a t one base, were near
enough completion to permit reception of the first of the 7 t h ' ~ground
crews there on z I January.42Thereafter, the 7th Group officially was
based at Jogjakarta while the 19th remained a t Malang.
But as the Japanese pressed forward the Americans were given no
opportunity to get set. The main body of the enemy's Second Fleet
had moved out from Formosa en route to Palau, where it joined ele-
ments of the carrier force which struck Pearl Harbor on 7 December.
The z 1st Air Flotilla was moving forward to bases in Celebes, and the
increasing tempo of enemy air attack carried its warning of an
intended advance through Makassar Strait and the
At the same time, the Japanese sought an eastern anchor for their
advancing lines a t Rabaul in New Britain. On 2 0 January more than
I O O carrier-based planes struck at Rabaul, and others promptly hit
Kavieng in New Ireland. The attacks were repeated the following
day. T o oppose these assaults the Australians had scarcely a half-dozen
virtually unarmed Wirraways, an observation plane of slow speed and
thin armor. In actions which testified chiefly to the valor of the Aus-
tralian airman, these Wirraways were quickly destroyed. A few Hud-
son bombers escaped from the Vunakanau airfield, a t Rabaul, in
advance of a Japanese landing on 2 3 January which promptly overran
the weak defenses of the town. Most of the Australians standing guard
there were captured or killed, and those who escaped did so by taking
to the jungle. Simultaneously, Kavieng was also occupied. By the end
of the month, enemy land-based bombers and fighters, along with a
unit of float planes, had taken up their base in the Bismarck Archi-
pelago.""
Above Java the Japanese met stronger, though hardly effective,
resistance. O n 24 January four American destroyers created momen-
tary havoc among transports landing enemy troops off Balikpapan,
sinking at least four of them, but the Japanese had won the place by
2 5 AAF bombers struck at enemy shipping, too, and a t
widely separated points. Between z z January and 3 February, exclud-
ing reconnaissance flights, a t least fifteen missions representing eighty-
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