“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
condition, apparently still ignorant of the existence of the Umnak
strip. Thus far, the Jap had enjoyed considerable success. One float
plane was gone, another crashed near its cruiser, and one of the
Ryujo’s fighters had made a forced landing on Akutan Island, but on
the credit side damage had been inflicted on Fort Mears. The task
force had steamed to a point only roo miles from Dutch Harbor; now
after recovering its planes on the afternoon of the 3d, it retired to
await better weather for its scheduled air attack upon Atka and
Adak.13’
The morning of 4 June was rainy, with a low overcast limiting visi-
bility. Search operations were difficult, but so were carrier operations
and Admiral Kakuda spent the early part of the day in awaiting a
break in the weather before launching a fresh attack. Finally, planes
for the second day’s assault were sent off in weather so poor that only
the best pilots on the two carriers were permitted to participate. Only
one wave was launched, consisting of a total of fifteen fighters and
eleven bombers from both carriers and six torpedo planes from the
R y ~ j o . ’ ~ ~At 1800, ten of the fighters swept over the naval air station
at Dutch Harbor in a strafing attack, followed by eleven dive bombers
whose bombs inflicted considerable damage upon fuel installations and
upon the Northwestern, a station ship then in use as barracks. At I 8 2 I ,
three more bombers attacked, but without achieving success; and at
1 8 2 5 , five more were overhead, killing four naval personnel as their
bombs struck an AA emp1a~ement.l~’This time the enemy did not
fare so well in his retirement. The Junyo’s striking group, which had
not learned of the Umnak strip, had selected as its rally point the west
end of Unalaska Island, and there four dive bombers and four fighters
were met by eight P-40’s of the I I th Squadron’s forward echelon. The
action occurred directly over Umnak, and the enemy’s lack of advance
information on that island’s installations cost him no less than 50 per
cent of this force. T w o enemy dive bombers and two fighters went
down, destroyed by Lieutenants Chancellor, Dale, White, and J.J.
Cape. Unfortunately Cape, for whom Cape Army Air Field was
named, fell before a Zeke, while one other P-40 crashed on the island,
but its pilot, Lt. Winfield E. McIntyre, walked unaided into camp.133
One more Junyo bomber failed to reach home apparently because of
failure of its radio receiver, which had been knocked out in the action
at Umnak, but the Ryujo recovered all her planes.
While Japanese planes headed for Dutch Harbor, PBY’s, B- I 7’s) and
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