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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
four heavy bomber sorties were dispatched. But of these, four missions
involving a total of seventeen bombers were abortive because of un-
favorable weather, and twenty-nine sorties in six other efforts resulted
only in negative reports. O n the remaining five missions, claims were
entered for the sinking of two transports and two other vessels, but
bomber losses were high. On 2 2 January, one B-17 was destroyed
when it overshot the field at Palembang; two days later, three B-17's
were badly shot up by enemy aircraft; on 24 January, two €3- I 7's of an
eight-plane mission were lost in crash landings, and only three of the
eight returned safely to Malang. On 2 7 January, Maj. Stanley K. Rob-
inson, commander of the 7th Group, while leading his fifth mission
within a week was shot down and with his entire crew was killed
when thirty Japanese pursuits attacked the formation of four B-17's.~'
Among the missions flown were those of 2 8 and 29 January against
Kuala Lunipur and the Kuantan airfield in the Malay States by four
B-17's which staged out of Palembang. Though their absence of two
and a half days from Malang still further weakened the defense against
the enemy above Java, the planes apparently succeeded in scoring
numerous hits on runways and hangars at K ~ a n t a n . ~ ~
T h e enemy on 26 January had captured Kendari, and to that
point he promptly transferred the forces of the 2 1st Air Flotilla which
on 3 February opened the attack on Java 'itself by savage strikes at
Soerabaja, Madioen, and Malar~g.~'O n that day near Malang the
Japanese caught American bombers standing on the Singosari field
loaded for take-off, and while enemy bombs tore the runway, strafers
concentrated their fire on the planes. Four B- I 7's exploded or burned,
and a fifth was shot down ten miles south of Malang. At Soerabaja
another Japanese formation damaged Dutch naval installations;
destroyed three Catalinas on the water; and in shooting down a B-18,
killed in addition to its entire crew several sorely needed radar experts
and Major Straubel, who had recently succeeded to the command of
the 7th T h e damage at Madioen was less serious, but the out-
look for a defense of Java against similar and continuing attacks was
dismal indeed.
In the absence of radar equipment, the Dutch air warning service
depended upon ground observation stations connected by wire with
a control room at Soerabaja. It had been well organized, bu; of course
there could be no substitute for modern equipment. There was a great
shortage also of antiaircraft guns, which for the most part were con-
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