“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
attack of 7 December, thereby weakening the defense of the ferry
line, there was some reluctance to send air units into the South Pacific
in the days immediately following Pearl Harbor. On 9 December the
Air Staff informed the War Department that in view of the present
international situation it could not consider favorably the project for
basing units at Christmas and Canton island^.^ One month later, opin-
ion had altered. It was currently believed that the Japanese were able
to assault New Caledonia or Fiji with at least one infantry division
supported by strong naval and air force^.^ Recognizing that the de-
fense of all the bases along the route depended ultimately upon their
support by naval and air forces, on I Z January the Combined Chiefs
of Staff approved a plan to garrison all the islands on the ferry route
leading down to Au~tralia.~Initially some difference of opinion per-
sisted as to the extent of AAF ability to commit air units to the islands.
But there was agreement that the United States should arrange for the
local defense of Palmyra, Christmas, Canton, American Samoa, and
Borabora, and that New Zealand, assisted by U.S. forces and materiel,
should bear responsibility for local defense of the Fiji island^.^
The defense plan called for the dispatch to New Caledonia of one
pursuit squadron of twenty-five aircraft and one medium bombard-
ment squadron of thirteen planes, and although it failed to designate
which one of the Allies would provide the garrison, it was generally
assumed that the pursuit unit would come from the United States.
In fact, A-3 of AAF Headquarters already had prepared a squadron,
the 68th, which was ready for embarking. The unit later was replaced
by the 67th, which sailed from New York on 23 January.' General
Arnold took issue with the plan to place AAF units on New Cale-
donia. H e had no squadrons available except at the expense of forces
in the ABDA area, nor did he regard the priority of New Caledonia
as outranking that of Fiji or Samoa. H e pointed out that his own
problem differed drastically from that facing General Marshall: the
Army possessed sufficient ground forces to permit simultaneous dis-
patch to Australia and Northern Ireland and Iceland, but there was
inadequate shipping to carry the troops, while the AAF, on the other
hand, simply lacked the units.' Believing that the British should pro-
vide the necessary aircraft for the New Caledonia air garrison and
that Australia should furnish the pilots, he urged that the former be
requested to meet this need, whereupon arrangements were made to
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