“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
five P-38’s were due in at Elmendorf Field at Anchorage; and a P-39
fighter squadron was en route to Alaska, destined for Kodiak. Seven
new B - I ~ E ’ swere coming in for the 36th Bombardment Squadron
(H), and upon their arrival the squadron strength would number
eleven bombers, including one at Ladd Field, Fairbanks. However,
four of these (three radar-equipped) were assigned to the Air Search
Group with the PBY-5A’s of Panving 4. One-half squadron of B-26’s
(six planes) was ordered out to dismal Umnak, and one-half to Cold
Bay.”” Already, on 2 3 May, ten P-40’s of the I Ith Fighter Squadron
had landed on the spongy runway on Umnak, and, when reinforce-
ments followed, on this westernmost field there were by 3 June twelve
P-~o’s,six B-26’s of the 77th Squadron, six PBY’s, and two B-18’s, with
half the 77th and I Ith squadrons back a t Cold Bay (Fort Randall).”’
Here, too, came the six B-I~E’sand one LB-30 of the 36th Squadron,
ordered out from Kodiak to Cold Bay on 2 June, where they arrived
on 4 June.121These were the dispositions and the Jap did not know
them-he was completely unaware of the field on Umnak.
Out along the Aleutians the weather had turned bad; beginning on
29 May and for a week thereafter it was practically prohibitive for
flying. Ceilings ranged from zero to 500 feet with visibility seldom
exceeding five miles, and there was almost continual rain and fog. T o
reach this area, a B-17E of the 36th Bombardment Squadron was
ordered to Umnak to conduct a daily reconnaissance of the Aleutian
chain. T h e pilot, Capt. Russell A. Cone, reported that the mat laid on
the porous volcanic soil gave the effect of landing on an inner-spring
mattress. Heavy planes took off with difficulty from the springy strip,
but on 28 May the B-17 ran its first search mission, covering the area
between Umnak and Tanaga, the first island west of Adak. T h e crew
sighted nothing, although the plane covered every inlet and bay along
the island chain.’ 2 2 At Umnak, conditions were extremely primitive.
Bomber revetments and hardstands had been built, but they had not
been floored and in wet weather the heavy plane would have mired
in; the B-17 stood in the only available parking space, leaving the
fighters ranged along the shoulders of the runway.lZ3
Combat crews set up their own tents and until 5 June cooked their
own meals. Their bivouac area was a sea of mud; water covered the
ground inside many of their tents and all crews were on alert from
dawn to dark, which at that time of the year extended from 0400 to
2300.’24 They went with little or no sleep for @-hour periods, and
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