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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
severely damaged. T w o days later, one LB-30 was burned on the
ground at Jogjakarta and four B - I ~ D ’ sat Pasirian, a dispersal point
some thirty miles south of Soerabaja. O n 24 February, in a severe
attack on the depot at Bandoeng, three more B-17’s were destroyed.86
It was still possible for heavy bomber reinforcements to reach Java,
but unless something could be done to strengthen local air defenses,
obviously there was little point in further attempts to build up the
bomber command.
Indeed, it had been apparent to the Allied command since the fall
of Singapore that, barring some unexpected development, the Indies
were lost, and by this date the evacuation of Java was already under
way. T o local commanders the best opportunity to continue the
fight against the Japanese seemed to lie in Burma, where pilots of the
already famous A V G had joined the R A F in resisting the enemy’s
push toward Rangoon, an advance which carried the threat of cutting
off China from all outside aid. With Australian pickets above New
Guinea already driven in, and with the sea and air routes to the Philip-
pines effectively closed except to an occasional blockade-runner, sub-
marine, or long-range bomber flight, an effort to hold open a line of
communications with China appeared to offer the only hope of bring-
ing Allied offensive power to bear on the inner defenses of Japan’s
now swollen empire at a relatively early date. O n 18 February, Gen-
eral Brett advised the War Department that from his point of view
the one chance of overcoming the odds against the Allies was to
launch an offensive through Burma and China. At the same time, he
advised that we should build up strength in Au~tralia.’~Already he
had sent Colonel Brady to Burma, and upon receiving his report,
Brett determined to “send the mass of all troops” and 160 pursuit
planes to India.8s Thinking in terms of the establishment of an Amer-
ican command there, on his own initiative he directed Brereton to
proceed to India and made tentative plans to follow after a brief
return to Au~tralia.’~Accordingly, in the early morning of 2 3 Feb-
ruary, General Brett flew to Melbourne, and on the following day
Brereron and a small staff of officers left Java in two heavy bombers
for India.”
O n 2 3 February, General Wave11 also received orders to leave Java.
Three days earlier the Combined Chiefs in Washington had favored
a last-ditch defense with all forces then on the island and advised that
there should be no withdrawal of the forces of any nationality but,
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