“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
pilots began to ignore the normal load limits. Planes built to carry
twenty-four passengers often took off with more than seventy. Some
of the civilian pilots vigorously opposed the practice at first, but after
seeing military pilots flying incredible loads without mishap, they too
revised their estimate of the capabilities of the planes and joined
wholeheartedly in the effort. In the process, the DC-3 and its Army
equivalent, the C-47, established a lasting reputation for dependa-
bility and durability under the most adverse flying conditions."
Both Haynes and Old took regular turns as pilots during these
emergency operations. All crews were badly overworked, but not a
plane was lost, though the unarmed craft were completely at the
mercy of possible interception by the enemy. As Allied defenses in
Burma crumbled, the emphasis on cargo transport gave place to one
on evacuation of personnel, and in a series of hairbreadth escapes most
of Stilwell's staff was flown out to India.'* After the general himself
elected to remain and walk out with what was left of his command,
the transports dropped food and medicines to his columns on their
slow trek to safety. On 2 1 May, Stilwell reached a village near the
Burma-India border, whence he proceeded by air to Dinjan for con-
ference with Generals Wavell, Brereton, and Naiden; and the major
part of the air transport operation was over.55But for the assistance
of columns which had chosen to move northward, food and supplies
continued to be dropped whenever possible; and after it became ap-
parent that the Japanese would not take Fort Hertz, one of the
DC-j's successfully landed on a field reputed to be less than a thou-
sand feet in length and took off with a load of disabled Ghurlcas. The
strip eventually was lengthened to render landings and take-offs less
hazardous, and Fort Hertz assumed importance as a way-stop on the
India-China transport line.''
Questions of Command and Mission
The rapid Japanese advance through Burma had long since called
into question most of the assumptions upon which original plans for
the Tenth Air Force had been based. The Tenth now faced the ques-
tion of whether its mission, at least for the time being, should be
limited to the defense of India-indeed, whether there was much point
in thinking of support for China until India had been made secure
against threatening forces in Burma, the Bay of Bengal, and the In-
dian Ocean. In any case, it was clear that earlier concepts of air
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