“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
extreme east of India to bases in Burma for transfer to Chungking
by land transport. General Naiden’s survey indicated that the normal
run should be between the RAF base a t Dinjan and Myitkyina, with
occasional runs as far as Yunnanyi after the monsoon was spent.
There was only one airdrome suitable for the purpose a t Dinjan,
where three would be required, and the unusually heavy rainfall of
the region left little prospect that the additional fields could be made
ready before fall. A field at Myitkyina could be put in satisfactory
state by 1 5 May, and two others could probably be completed by
November. With these limitations, he doubted that more than twenty-
five planes could be operated, and he anticipated that the service
would be uncertain during the approaching rainy season.39
Though the Americans had not yet had time to explore thoroughly
the idiosyncrasies of the Indian transportation systems, it was already
evident that they must depend upon air transport between Karachi
and Dinjan hardly less than from Assam to Burma. Accordingly, by
the end of March, General Naiden had drafted plans for two trans-
port commands: the Trans-India would operate between Karachi and
Dinjan, and the Assam-Burma-China would run from Dinjan to
Myitkyina and occasionally to Loiwing under a plan to extend the
service in time to Kunming and Chungking. Col. Robert Tate even-
tually assumed command of the Trans-India operations. Colonel
Haynes, then en route to India with a flight of transports and
bombers, was chosen for the other command.40Pending Haynes’ ar-
rival, Col. William D. Old proceeded to Dinjan during the first week
of April on assignment as executive officer and to take charge of
preliminary arrangements.
His first immediate task, aside from the routine of providing quar-
ters and supplies for personnel, was to assist in the delivery of 30,000
gallons of aviation gasoline and 500 gallons of lubricants to China for
the use of Colonel Doolittle’s Tokyo raiders, then already at sea
aboard the Hornet.” Ten Pan American DC-3’s from the trans-
African contract services had been made available to haul the gasoline,
of which 8,000 gallons were in Calcutta, where the tactical situation
demanded that it be moved immediately. There was not enough
storage space a t Dinjan, and so two of the transports on 6 and 7 April
hauled the fuel from Calcutta to Asansol in western Bengal, whence
it was subsequently transferred via Dinjan to China.41
* See above, pp. 438-44.
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