“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
Group was in any condition for immediate employment. T h e experi-
ence in Java had shattered the morale of their battle-wearied crews,
and the fourteen B-17’s rescued from the disaster there were all in
depot for repair. Indeed, the twelve B-I 7’s available for operations
were for the moment in the anomalous position of not being even
under American command. Both the planes and the crews, some of
which had flown into Oahu during the Japanese attack on 7 December,
belonged to the 2 2d Bombardment Squadron and the 88th Reconnais-
sance Squadron of the 7th Group, but after flying search missions out
of Hawaii for two months, they had been attached to Naval Task
Force ANZAC early in February for assistance in protection of the
South Pacific line of supply. Under the command of Maj. Richard H.
Carmichael, the flight had flown twelve missions from the Fiji Islands
prior to its arrival at Townsville in Australia on I 8 and I 9 February.
In the absence of official notification of their coming, USAFIA had
made no arrangements for maintenance, supply, or administration. For
a few days they had remained under naval control, during which time
six of the planes flew the first American bomber mission against Rabaul
on 2 3 February, and then they were transferred to control of the
RAAF.’5
By the end of March the heavy bomber situation had been some-
what clarified. Planes and crews of the 7th Group had been assigned
to the 19th, which, near Townsville, was in process of reorganization
and preparation for combat under the command of Lt. Col. Kenneth
B. Hobson. For the second heavy bombardment group committed to
Australia the choice had fallen on the 43d Group, and its ground
echelon had now arrived. But it would be months before the 43d
entered operations. AAF plans had called for dispatch of two B-17’s
a day to Australia after 2 0 March, with the purpose of building up
and maintaining a minimum of forty heavy bombers for each of the
two groups. T h e W a r Department subsequently decided, however,
to reconsider allocations to all theaters, and by the end of March only
nine of the bombers had reached Australia. A new decision on the
combined staff level did not appreciably alter the earlier commitment
to the Southwest Pacific. There would be eighty operational aircraft
with the addition of forty in reserve, but plans for their movement to
the theater called for the dispatch of only thirty in April and the
remainder as soon thereafter as was possible.26
Light bombardment units were also undergoing regrouping and
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