“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
nature of Genera1 Lincoln’s responsibility, but by the end of May
clarification had been provided by official definition of the Air
Services as an administrative, supply, maintenance, and engineering
command operating under the commander of the Allied Air
Its internal organization reflected the current effort to achieve a
requisite mobility within the Allied Air Forces. Instead of attaching
service elements to tactical units, the plan was to make each air base
group responsible for all air service within a specified area. Thus the
35th Air Base Group, stationed in the Townsville area, was forced
with the passage of time to acquire the versatility necessary to service
and maintain A-ZO’S,A - 2 4 ’ ~ ~B-IfS, B-ZS’S,B - 2 6 ’ ~ ~P - 3 9 ’ ~ ~P-~OO’S,and
an assortment of transport planes. Four other groups, stationed at
Archerfield near Brisbane, Ballarat near Melbourne, Mascot in the
Sydney area, and Daly Waters below Darwin, developed a similar
versatility, while a sixth air base group located at Charters Towers
sharpened its mechanical and related skills by servicing all planes fer-
ried in from the United
In addition, the air base groups were forced to provide the services
of supply depots, for the Army Air Services had only one air depot
group a t its disposal. This, the 4th Air Depot Group, by dividing its
units among three widely separated points, was attempting in April to
perform functions which normally would require three such groups.
At Footscray in Victoria it operated a central supply depot, at Bris-
bane a branch supply depot, and at Wagga Wagga in New South
Wales a major repair depot, not to mention the supervision it provided
over aircraft erection facilities at Amberley and Geel~ng.~OObviously,
there was need for additional air depot groups, and on I May Brett
received authorization for activation of another group, the 8 1st; but
personnel and equipment were to be taken from that already available
in Australia. Activated on I I May under command of Col. R.L. Fry,
the new unit received responsibility for the assembly and maintenance
of aircraft and the supply of air units in the Brisbane area. The short-
age of trained and experienced personnel proved a serious handicap;
but as in other service units, improvisation and hard work made up
for some of the inadequacies. Help came, too, from civilian sources.
With the co-operation of the Australian Department of Aircraft Pro-
duction, Australians were employed for maintenance work; such local
concerns as the Ford Motor Company and the National Airways also
assisted in the provision of facilities and experienced personnel. At the
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