“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 D E F E N S E O F A U S T R A L I A
of both the planes and their maintenance, and a seaplane base at Lake
Lanao permitted operations from Mindanao by PBY's almost to the
end at Corregidor." In what must be regarded under the circum-
stances as considerably more than a creditable effort, the 5th Air Base
Group and other personnel participating had benefited greatly by
prewar plans for an early expansion of air facilities in the Philippines.
Slow and untrustworthy communications between the W a r Depart-
ment and General MacArthur made it difficult for either to compre-
hend fully the other's position. The latter late in January requested
of General Wave11 two or three pursuit squadrons, and appeared sur-
prised on learning that only sixteen P-40's were currently in operation
within the ABDA area." In early February, he still hoped that a car-
rier might bring air reinforcements within flying distance of the
Philippines, or that A-zq's, P-jg's, and A-20's could be ferried from
Australia. With the passage of time, he advanced arguments against
the strategy of a build-up of forces on the enemy front, and pointed
to the Japanese lines of communication as the enemy's principal weak-
ness." Whatever real hope MacArthur may have held for effective
resistance in the Philippines, President Roosevelt had decided early in
February that the general would be evacuated to Australia. Objec-
tions based on a desire to remain with his troops were overruled, and
General Brett received directions to provide three B-I 7's for evacua-
tion of General MacArthur and his staff. T h e planes took off on I I
March, but immediately ran into bad luck. One of them promptly
turned back because of engine trouble; a second crashed into the sea
off Mindanao, with loss of two members of the crew; the third landed
safely at Del Monte, but in poor mechanical condition. Accordingly,
Maj. Richard H. Carmichael, commanding officer of the recently
arrived 40th Reconnaissance Squadron, at Townsville, received in-
structions to prepare four other planes for this special mission. Three
of the four, carrying medical supplies for our troops in the Philip-
pines, succeeded in taking off from Australia and reached Del Monte
safely. General MacArthur, his family, and key members of his staff,
among them General George of the interceptor command, had
escaped from Corregidor by PT boat and at Del Monte boarded the
planes for the 1,500-mile flight to Australia." T h e return flight was
executed without mishap, though at the time of MacArthur's landing
on Batchelor Field, near-by Darwin was under attack by Japanese
It should be remembered that ABDA did not include Australia, except for Darwin.
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