“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…
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
Gambonini, who had taken off with a partially filled fuel tank, landed
back a t the field in the midst of a bombing attack. Together with
several other aircraft on the ground, his plane was destroyed. Captain
Lane, having accounted for one of the enemy, succeeded in reaching
Java, where three others of the flight joined him. Within two days,
an additional eight P-40,~of the same squadron had negotiated the
ferry route with better luck, but two had crashed on the way.B3
On I I February nine more p-4O7S, belonging this time to the 3d
Pursuit Squadron, came into Java. T h e first attempt by the 3d Squad-
ron to move some of its planes through had ended in disaster. An
initial flight of nine P-407S, accompanied by three A-24,~of the 91st
Bombardment Squadron (L), had flown out from Darwin on 9 Febru-
ary under the escort of an LB-30 only to find Timor closed in by
storm clouds. T h e LB-30, having the necessary range, turned back to
Darwin, but the P-40’s had no choice but to go on to forced landings
in which they all crashed. T h e luck of the A-2q7Sproved only slightly
better; they succeeded in landing a t Koepang but were mistaken for
enemy aircraft, and all were badly damaged by antiaircraft fire. One
of them, the first A-24 to reach Java, was able to fly on the next day,
but the other two returned to Darwin for repair. With favorable
weather, Captain Mahoney, squadron commander, left Darwin on the
I 0th with the second flight of P-~o’s,which reached Soerabaja on the
following day without mishap.64
Like the survivors of earlier flights, the new planes were immedi-
ately incorporated into the I 7th Pursuit Squadron under command
of Major Sprague. Little or no difficulty was experienced in achieving
an effective squadron organization, but co-ordination between its own
headquarters and the Dutch interceptor control remained imperfect.
T w o Dutch officers and a radio detail had been attached to the squad-
ron to facilitate a proper liaison, but the inadequacy of aircraft warn-
ing and communications facilities created obstacles which could
hardly be overcome b y even the most cordial of personal relations. In
an attempt to improve the situation, Maj. W.P. Fisher, former squad-
ron commander in the 19th Bombardment Group, on 16 February
was placed in command of interceptor Though attrition had
taken its persistent toll, the 17th Pursuit now stood at the peak of its
strength. Even so, it was far from equal to the task confronting it, and
there seemed to be no prospect that an adequate interceptor force
could be built up in Java. Indeed, it had not been anticipated that the
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