“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 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
flew two missions a day for this purpose over New Guinea and New
Britain and on occasion to the Solomons and the Netherlands East
Indies. Indeed, reconnaissance flights continued to levy heavily upon
the bombers of all classes available for offensive operations; even the
3d Group’s B-25’s flew better than 1 2 0 reconnaissance sorties in the
month of May, when the presence of the enemy’s fleet in the Coral
Sea created a special demand for this type of service.21 The B-26’s
were based in the Townsville area, and for the mission to Rabaul
each plane was fitted with a 25o-gallon bomb bay tank and took on
a bomb load usually of 4 x 500-lb. bombs or 2 0 x Ioo-lb. bombs
prior to the 6oo-mile flight to Port Moresby. Having arrived there,
preferably about dusk, an advance detachment of the group readied
the planes for the next day’s mission under cover of darkness. They
would take off in the early morning, unless the start was delayed for
the purpose of confusing the enemy’s defense, and normally would
follow a route that took them for forty or fifty miles along the New
Guinea coast, then across the Owen Stanley range at approximately
7,000 feet, and through equatorial weather which frequently proved
as dangerous as enemy fighters. Over Rabaul, the Marauders made
their runs at something under 10,000 feet, after which they turned
for the 1,300-mile flight, broken again at Moresby, to their bases.”
Between 6 April and 24 May, the 22d Group completed sixteen
missions for a total of more than eighty sorties against Rabaul. Hits
were claimed on three transports, two merchant vessels, and one air-
craft carrier in addition to the destruction of at least sixteen aircraft
on the ground and ten in the air. The targets provided by the Lakunai
and Vunakanau airfields and the near-by harbor were vital ones, but
the distances were actually too great for the B-26. The last mission
was flown on 24 May-indeed it would be October 1943 before
Rabaul was attacked again by medium bombers-and the job was
turned over entirely to the heavies. During April, May, and June
the 19th Group itself mounted eighteen missions against Rabaul for
a total of approximately sixty sorties. Though unfavorable weather
and darkness often prevented anything like an accurate assessment
of results, gratifying fires and damage to at least two vessels were
r e p ~ r t e d . ~ ~Bombing missions to Rabaul, as to other points, also
served in a highly important way the ends of reconnaissance.
Through these months there had been few antishipping strikes,
except during the Coral Sea action of May and against vessels lying
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