“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
enemy planes appeared overhead, and in the middle of the afternoon
the Pecos also went down. Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining
pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from again.Io6
T h e evacuation of Java was already in full swing. Since 2 5 Febru-
ary all aircraft which possessed the necessary range had been pressed
into service for the evacuation of military personnel not required for
the operation of remaining aircraft. At Broome, on the northwestern
coast of Australia, an evacuation center was hastily organized under
the direction of Col. E. S. Perrin.lo7One by one the air bases in Java
were abandoned for demolition by Dutch authorities until on the
evening of I March Jogjakarta alone remained in Allied hands. T o
it had come the surviving personnel of the 17th Pursuit to be flown
out that night to Broome. O n the following night, 260 officers and
men still awaited evacuation and only five B-17’s and three LB-30’s
were available, but each LB-30 took off with thirty-five passengers
and each B-17 carried out thirty-one. As the last plane took off just
before midnight, the Japanese were only eighteen miles away, and
Dutch troops stood ready to explode their demolition charges.*”
T h e eight American bombers reached Broome early in the morning
of 3 A4arch. Broome had been a major port of entry for evacuees from
Java; and transport pilots were straining their endurance in an attempt
to ferry one load of refugees after another down the coast of western
Australia to Perth. In anticipation of an enemy attack (a Japanese
reconnaissance plane had been sighted during the night), all aircraft
had been warned to leave before 1000that morning. At just that hour
a crowded B-24 transport cleared the field. When it had climbed to
only three or four hundred feet, approximately a dozen Japanese
fighters swept in over the harbor. Their fire punctured the gas tanks
of the helpless B-24, which crashed into the sea, broke in two, and
all of its passengers except one enlisted man were drowned. Waiting
for take-off in the harbor were several Dutch flying boats already
loaded with evacuees, mostly Dutch women and children. Other ships
on the airfield stood ready for take-off or were the objects of hurried
preparations by their crews. T h e personnel on the field who reached
the cover of near-by scrub bush watched every plane on the field
explode or burn to the ground, and from the harbor came sounds of
the destruction wrought among the helpless seaplanes. T h e enemy
had destroyed twelve flying boats, two B - I ~ ’ s ,two B-24’~,and two
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