“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
soon sighted by Japanese reconnaissance planes, and the next day it
was subjected to severe attack by several waves of enemy planes bomb-
ing from high altitude. A11 four transports having sprung leaks from
near misses, ABDACOM directed that the convoy return to Darwin
until measures could be taken to provide local air s ~ p e r i o r i t y . ~ ~
Whatever hope may have existed of achieving this superiority ended
with the Japanese landing a t Bali two days later, after a series of air
sweeps extending westward into Java. The Allies had little with which
to resist. An unescorted formation of nine enemy bombers was inter-
cepted on its westward sweep by pilots of the 17th Pursuit who shot
down at least four of the bombers, the other five being listed as prob-
ables, at the cost of one P-40. The B-I~’s,having completed eleven
sorties over the invasion fleet on the 19th, claimed three hits on
cruisers, one on a destroyer, another on a transport, and two enemy
fighters shot down. All of the American bombers returned to base.
From Malang, also, two of the A-24’s joined in the fight. The pilots
of the gist Squadron had completed the loading of Dutch bombs on
their planes, five of which stood in revetments and two on the open
field awaiting orders to attack Bali, when awhile after noon an air raid
warning was received. The two exposed A-24’s were ordered off the
ground, and on their own initiative the pilots proceeded to Bali. Set-
ting their makeshift sights on a cruiser and a transport, they scored
hits on both targets. Indeed, reconnaissance by PBY’s later indicated
that both vessels had been sunk, but it has been impossible to find con-
firmation in enemy sources.76 Despite these and other efforts the
enemy made good his landing, speedily overran the airfield, and thus
completed the encirclement of Java.
The 19th had been marked by heavy blows directed against Java
from the west as well as the east. Thirty enemy fighters roared over
the Buitenzorg airdrome to destroy two transport planes and three
Hudsons caught on the ground. Another formation of thirty planes
hit Bandoeng, where five of the few remaining Dutch pursuirs were
shot down and two B-17’~just in from the United States were de-
stroyed on the field. The American P-40’s met with some success in
breaking up a bomber formation headed for Malang. They counted
no bombers shot down, but in a furiously fought engagement they
destroyed four enemy fighters and lost three of their Here and
there the Allies could take pride in an individual victory, but the day
clearly belonged to the Japanese.
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