“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 I N T H E P A C I F I C
reconnaissance planes had sighted the enemy's Moresby force only a
few miles from the position first reported by the Y o r k t o ~ ' sscow;
when this information was passed on to the carriers' attack groups, the
latter altered their course slightly, then dive-bomber and torpedo
planes went on to put their missiles on the Shoho, which they found
approximately 2 0 miles northeast of Misima.61 Hit by dive bombers,
the Shoho lost her steering gear; within a few minutes she had taken
a number of torpedoes, capsized and sunk, carrying with her about 500
of her crew of 1 , 2 0 0 . ~ ~Next day the U.S. carrier pilots met the
enemy's main support force, which had swept around to the south of
San Cristobal, and in a major air engagement the dive bombers struck
the Shokaku at least twice, damaging her severely, although the Zui-
kaku managed to escape both bombs and torpedoe~.'~With the Shoho
gone, the aviation fuel supply short on the Zuikaku, and knowing that
U.S. cruiser strength was undamaged, the Japanese turned northward,
for their main fleet was now in Japan after recently completing an
operation against Ceylon."*
Allied forces had lost the Lexington a t a time when that carrier
could hardly be spared; also they had lost the oiler Neosho and the
destroyer Sims, together with 66 planes. Tactically, it would seem
that the task force barely had gained a draw, perhaps not even that,
but strategically it had done much better; it had saved Port Moresby
from a frontal assault. The Japanese now had one carrier less to use
elsewhere, and the Shokaku would go to the repair yards rather than
to Midway. The effects of this engagement would be demonstrated
in the future. Meanwhile, the Japanese army prepared to restate its
claim upon Moresby, except that now, with the sea road made
impassable, it would try the overland trail south across Papua from
Buna, planning to occupy Moresby by July."6
The Battle of the Coral Sea had involved forces both from the
carriers and from AAF units based in Australia, but it was apparent at
once that the contribution of the AAF had been of a limited nature;
in fact, it is probable that its reconnaissance work was of greater im-
portance than its tactical work in bombardment. Heavy and medium
bombers had flown numerous armed reconnaissance missions from
Townsville up to Port Moresby, and B- I 7's had attacked the Moresby
transports on 7 May, repeating the attack on the 8th, although enemy
reports indicate that they inflicted no damage in either case.66In addi-
tion to participation in the engagement out over the Coral Sea, the
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