“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 B A T T L E L I N E IN T H E P A C I F I C
move the 68th Pursuit Squadron to Au~tralia,~and on 17 February
the 68th sailed from San Francisco.
Again there was a shift in policy. On 2 8 January the AAF agreed
to furnish the pursuit squadron for New Caledonia but clung to the
original conviction that the bombardment garrison should be supplied
by the British and/or the Australians." A subsequent conference with
the Royal Air Force representative on 1 5 February indicated the im-
probability of British capacity to stock New Caledonia with aircraft
of any kind, and the entire matter was passed on to the Combined
Staff Planners for further study on I March 194z.l~
Defense of New Caledonia alone was not enough to assure the
integrity of the South Pacific. Clear across the Pacific extending back
to Hawaii were islands whose defense was vital to the ferry route.
By 20 January 1942, plans and preparations had advanced to the point
where some units already were en route to their island bases while
others were under orders awaiting transfer from continental stations.
So urgent was the Pacific situation that the task force being prepared
for Australia assumed top priority, while that for the Pacific islands
(FIVE ISLANDS) ranked second in importance, with the forces
being prepared for European theaters following after.'* Task Force
FIVE ISLANDS carried the basic air units for garrisoning the South
Pacific islands, and these were as follows: ( I ) Fiji, to which the 70th
Pursuit Squadron was en route; ( 2 ) Canton, to which the 68th Pursuit
Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from
Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas, assigned the I zth Pursuit
Squadron; (4) New Caledonia, whose 67th Pursuit Squadron originally
had been directed to Australia; and (5) Palmyra, for which the 69th
Pursuit Squadron had been earmarked. Necessary ground services were
allotted for each of the units, and in preparing them for shipment,
General Arnold directed that they be afforded a high priority, both
for personnel and eq~ipment.'~
By February, sufficient air units had arrived a t their stations across
the Pacific to offer some opposition to a Japanese attack. None of the
bases was in a position to offer stout prolonged resistance, but the
ferry route no longer lay defenseless. Fiji, a vital link in the chain,
now had one pursuit squadron, the 7oth, which had debarked at Suva
on 29 January, although the first of its 2 5 P-39's was not assembled
until 9 February. In addition to the P-39's of this squadron, the Royal
New Zealand Air Force operated 18 Hudsons a t Fiji in a squadron
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