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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
they performed much of their own maintenance, pumping the gas
from barrels and pouring oil from five-gallon cans. Crews which had
previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these
weapons into the B-26’s under naval supervision, and pilots took off
over strips which left them only a four-inch clearance between tor-
pedo and rnat.lz5Fortunately, many of the twenty-three PBY search
planes possessed radar, which proved of inestimable value in the fog
and mist which prevailed.
Far off to the southwest in the direction of the Kurils, a weather
front was moving up concealing under its fog and clouds the enemy’s
Second Air Fleet on the Junyo and Ryujo, supported by the heavy
cruisers Takao and Maya, an oiler, and three destroyers. Already the
enemy had conducted his own reconnaissance, sending up a plane
from a submarine to scout Seattle harbor, while another plane checked
on Dutch Harbor from a submarine lying I O O miles north of the
island.1zEThey saw nothing to alter the master plan, and the task force
proceeded. But on 2 June while the ships were refueling, a PBY plane
picked up the two carriers, reporting them at a point some 400 miles
south of Kiska, and all available striking planes immediately were
ordered forward to Forts Glenn and Randall.1z‘ The American plane
had been spotted, fighters were sent in pursuit, and the PBY was
driven off, thus losing the contact in the fog.
On the morning of 3 June, Rear Adm. Kakajugi Kakuda, fated to
die on Tinian two years later, had his force 180 miles south of Dutch
Harbor in a position to strike. Despite unfavorable weather conditions,
bombers and fighters took off and a t 0545 several fighters swept over
Fort Mears and the naval installations a t Dutch Harbor, causing very
little damage in their single strafing run. Ten minutes later the first
of four waves of bombers, of three or four each, attacked the area,
this time destroying barracks and killing approximately twenty-five
men.’*’ Out on Umnak Island, all the P-40’s had been sent aloft on
patrol but they could not make contact with the enemy striking force.
However, the two Japanese cruisers had catapulted four seaplanes to
search the islands west of Fort Randall, and two of these blundered
into the Umnak area unaware of the P-40’s or of the existence of the
Umnak Lt. John B. Murphy, on patrol with the I Ith Squad-
ron’s P-~o’s,saw them, pulled out of formation with Lt. Jacob W.
Dixon, and these two pilots immediately shot one plane down into the
Umnak Pass at the end of the runway as the other fled in damaged
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