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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…
C O M M I T M E N T S T O C H I N A
the problem had been suggested by a retired Air Corps officer, Claire
L. Chennault, who since 1937 had been serving as special adviser to
the Chinese Air Force.
Known to Americans chiefly as a member of the “flying trapeze”
team which over preceding years had electrified spectators at air
shows and races by its demonstration of formation flying, Chennault
was also a diligent student of fighter tactics.’ Having been retired
from the Army in 1937 because of defective hearing, he promptly
accepted the opportunity offered to him by the Chinese government to
put some of his theories into practice under combat conditions. In
China, he found the procurement of necessary equipment, even be-
fore the outbreak of war in Europe, an increasingly difficult problem
for the Chinese Air Force. T h e Soviet Union had become after 1939
the main source of supply, 3 source cut off by her entry into war in
June 1941. Recognizing a trend of events that ultimately would
permit the Japanese to bomb Chinese targets a t will, and convinced
at the same time that the United States eventually would have to
fight Japan, Chennault already had turned to the idea of recruiting
for service in China an international air force that would include
American planes manned by American pilots. T h e participation of
German, Russian, and Italian airmen in the Spanish civil war offered
a precedent for action against the Japanese; such action would pro-
vide, he believed, valuable experience for the Americans.1°
Haviny secured the agreement of Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek,
Chennault returned to the United States early in 1941 with Gen.
P.T. Mow of the Chinese Air Force. T o the latter’s attempt to secure
aid for a long-ranqe prosram that would rebuild the Chinese Air
Force, Chennault lent assistance, but he was more active in an
effort to put across his idea of an international air force. In Wash-
ington he was aided by Chinese Foreign Minister T.V. Soong, and
after preliminary discussions with the War, Navy, and State depart-
ments, Chennault presented the plan at the White House. There were,
of course, arguments against the proposal, but the current trend of
events argued strongly for it. T h e precedent in Spain might be dis-
missed as of doubtful validity, but to stand on the niceties af inter-
national law only to permit China to fall a complete victim of Japanese
aggression was also a disturbing suggestion. T h e clinching argument
was the inescapable necessity to provide aerial protection for the
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