“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
unloaded their bombs on the Lashio airfield, but subsequently three
planes-including that of Major Leland-crashed into a mountain side
while flying through an overcast at IO,OOO feet, and another plane
was abandoned when it gave out of gas near Chanyi. Only two of the
aircraft landed a t Kunming, one with its radio operator who had been
killed in a brush with enemy fighter^.^^ Six other B-25's led by Maj.
William E. Bayse, veteran of the Java campaign, arrived at Kunming
without mishap during the next two weeks." Some of the pilots had
participated in the Doolittle attack on Tokyo.
Movement of the P-40's from Africa continued to be slow, and
the induction of the AVG, from the first a perplexing problem,
proved disappointing in its results. It had been hoped that the transi-
tion might be made without serious loss of personnel or reduction in
the effectiveness of an organization which had so well demonstrated
its fighting ability. Several weeks before induction was scheduled to
take place, however, it had become obvious that only a few of the
men could be retained. War-weary and eager to visit their homes
before undertaking another long period of foreign service, they de-
sired immediate leaves which the induction board was not authorized
to grant. Some preferred to take remunerative positions with the
China National Airways and Hindustan Aircraft companies rather
than accept the grades offered them by the Army; many formerly
belonged to the Navy or Marines and preferred to return to those
branches of the service; some expressed resentment over the manner
in which the induction was handled; and a few were not able to pass
the required physical examination. Eventually when the induction
board, presided over by Chennault and made up largely of Tenth Air
Force officers, completed its canvass of the personnel, they found that
only five pilots and a handful of ground men had chosen to stay with
the AAF in China. Approximately twenty of the pilots agreed, how-
ever, to remain on duty until further replacements could arrive, and
one of them lost his life in combat during this extra tour."
Activation of the CATF on 4 July 1942 marked an important turn-
ing point in the war in China. But the A V G as it now passed into
history had set the pattern for subsequent air operations in that thea-
ter, and its score of almost 300 enemy planes destroyed at a cost of
less than 5 0 planes and only 9 pilots provided a challenging record for
its successors.72
Meanwhile, uncertainties existed regarding the control of the air
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