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- 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
and a half of general reconnaissance light bombardment aircraft, as
well as four Singapore flying boats and six ancient Vincents. The
Fijis, moreover, would receive additional air support with the arrival
of the USS Curtin, which was currently en route to Suva with six
PBY's for temporary operations, although this vessel was not assigned
to the area.I4 Down in New Zealand, the Royal New Zealand Air
Force maintained a force of Hudsons similar to that in Fiji, and had
as projected reinforcements the addition of 34 Hudsons, 14 Ansons,
and I 8 P-40's. The 67th Pursuit Squadron, equipped with z 5 P-~OO'S,
early export version of the P-39, was even then at sea on the way to
Australia, arriving at Melbourne on 26 February. The 68th reached
Archerfield a t Brisbane on 8 March. Samoa's defense was in naval
hands, and the Navy had committed half a pursuit squadron and half
a bombardment squadron to this area, although the date of arrival was
not yet known. Christmas Island was strengthened by the presence of
the 12th Pursuit Squadron, but orders to move the 69th Pursuit
Squadron down to Palmyra had not yet been issued; the air defense
of this island rested with the Navy, which maintained two patrol
bombers on station."
New Caledonia, a French dependency, was a keystone in the island
chain. It was the largest of the islands, it could support several air-
fields, and it lay directly across the Coral Sea from Australia in
such a way that it protected the flank of the northeast coast of that
continent, now so vital as a vast base for Allied forces. Its nickel and
chrome mines were readily accessible to an invader. Admiral King
believed that the mines offered a tempting bait to the Japanese who
were currently short of the metal and who, in fact, actually had con-
sidered New Caledonia as a source of nickel, although shortage of
shipping had caused abandonment of the plan. Furthermore, enemy
possession of the island would drive all reinforcements to the ABDA
area over the long route south of New Zealand.'' Accordingly, it
received a larger share of the Pacific defenses than any of the smaller
islands. Australia, owing to the scarcity of troops for home defense
in the absence of four divisions overseas, was unable to offer any in-
crement to the single company of troops then in New Caledonia, and
the United States-British joint planning committee had recognized
this situation, although the defense of the island was an Australian
responsibility. Australian naval units were laying mine fields in the
approaches to Noumea and Tontouta, but that was the limit of her
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