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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 TO C H I N A
graphic units, and unfavorable atmospheric conditions combined to
make high-altitude bombing of questionable value and argued for the
superior speed of the mediums. T h e supply at the time, however, was
unequal to the demand, and only in late April was it agreed, in partial
concession to his continued requests, that the 7 th Bombardment
Group should be converted into a composite group of two heavy and
two medium squadrons, the latter to be equipped with B - z ~ ’ s . ~ ~Not
until July did the B-25’s arrive in sufficient numbers to permit com-
mitment of one of the squadrons to combat. H e also sought fighters
superior to the P-40, and received the promise of P-38’s at some in-
definite time in the But the Tenth would get along with the
P-40 for more than a year, and for a while yet with few of them.
Although General Brereton had brought out of Java a few key
personnel for the new air force, there were several important posts
for which no qualified men were available. Consequently, one of his
first acts after assuming command had been to radio Washington
asking assignment from the staff of the North African mission in
Egypt of Col. Victor H. Strahm to be his A-3 and Brig. Gen. Elmer
E. Adler to establish an air service command. T h e assignment of
Strahm was promptly approved, but some delay was experienced in
securing the transfer of General Adler, who as chief of the air sec-
tion of the North African mission since the fall of 1941 had gained
a variety of experience which made him especially well qualified to
undertake the planning and establishment of air services in the new
theater. N o t until 2 6 April did he arrive in India. With him came
Lt. Col. Reuben C. Hood, Jr., and Capt. Gwen Atkinson, and on
I May, with only Adler, Hood, and Atkinson on hand, the air service
command was a c t i ~ a t e d . ~ ~Until the arrival of the convoy from
America two weeks later with supplies and additional personnel, the
command remained in effect a small planning staff.
Meanwhile, to Brereton’s chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Earl L. Naiden,
had fallen the task of planning an air transport service from India
to China, a problem that took on increasing significance as the Japa-
nese pressed forward in Burma. Foreseeing the loss of Rangoon, the
W a r Department had directed Brereton shortly after his arrival in
India to survey an air route for the movement of supplies from India
to Ch~ngking.’~At the time, it was felt that central and northern
Burma could probably be defended; and so the problem appeared to
be that of providing for an air lift of supplies from Assam in the
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