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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
been demonstrated repeatedly that damage to carriers is particularly
difficult to assess from the air. With this in mind, it would seem that
the first attack produced a probable hit upon one transport, causing a
small fire which was extinguished without delaying the ship, but that
the combat craft escaped damage in the attack.g5
T h e first blow had been struck without slowing the enemy; but out
into the night four PBY’s moved toward the transports, found them by
radar at 0130 on the qth, put one torpedo into the tanker Akebono
Maru, and strafed the column of transports, causing some casual tie^.^^
T h e 4th of June was the day of the real battle. PBY’s were off early
on their searches for the main enemy force, which had not yet been
located; B-17’s were in the air; B-26’s, TBF’s, and MAG-22 planes
were warmed and ready. At 054s the news was in: a patrol plane had
sighted many planes heading for Midway at a point 150 miles to the
north and west; radars confirmed the report. Seven minutes later,
PBY’s sighted the enemy’s carrier force. Midway was ready. T h e four
B-26’s led by Capt. James F. Collins, Jr., and the six TBF’s were off to
attack the carriers, Marine dive bombers and fighters were sent aloft,
and the flight of 14 B- 17’salready in the air and on its way toward the
transports was diverted north a a i n s t the carriers. At 0705 the B-26’s
and TBF’s sighted the carriers with their supporting heavy ships; they
attacked through heavy fighter defense and flak with no fighter sup-
port of their own, only to lose two of the B-26’s and five of the Navy’s
new Grumman torpedo planes. Lt. James P. Muri and Captain Collins
brought their badly shot-up planes home to Midway after their gallant
attack, but they had scored no hits, nor had the TBF’s; on this point
enemy survivors are u n a n i m o u ~ . ~ ~All the Japanese carriers were ham-
mered by the B- I 7’s and by dive and torpedo bombers from the three
U.S. carriers, and one by one the ships caught fire and sank. T h e
Soryu had been hit heavily by dive bombers, then was torpedoed by
the submarine Nautilus at 1359, sinking at 1610.’~T h e Kaga, too,
went down a few minutes later, while the Hiryu) escaping the earlier
attacks, was caught by dive bombers from the Enterprise and the
Hornet late in the afternoon. T h e ship sank early on the sth, together
with the Akaga, but not before it was found by six B-17’s en route
from Oahu to Midway. The bombers attacked from 3,600 feet at
1610, then strafed the carrier’s decks, and claimed hits upon a
d e ~ t r o y e r . ~
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