“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…
C O M M I T M E N T S TO C H I N A
carpenters, ditch diggers, and at whatever other tasks needed to be
done. There was work for all at Agra; and this, plus the evident
progress made, prevented development of morale problems com-
parable to those existing earlier at Karachi.79
T h e service command would serve both India and China. T o assist
in carrying out this large mission, the 59th Materiel Squadron (soon
redesignated 59th Service Squadron) was divided into small base units
to serve the needs of combat stations. T h e unit's headquarters was
located at Allahabad, selected as base for the heavy bombers, and
there, too, was stationed Base Unit Number One. Other base units
were assigned to Kunming, Agra, Dinjan and Chabua, Chakulia, and
Bangalore, the latter being the location of Hindustan Aircraft, Ltd.,
which was to be changed over by agreement with the British from a
manufacturing plant to a repair and overhaul depot for American-
made aircraft." During May additional personnel for the service com-
mand arrived and received assignments. On 2 3 May, Lt. Col. Daniel
F. Callahan was made chief, maintenance and repair division, and the
following day Col. Robert C. Oliver reported to become chief of
staff to General Adler, Hood taking the assignment as chief, supply
division. No headquarters and headquarters squadron was created,
personnel normally constituting such an organization being assigned
to the Tenth Air Force and detailed to duty with the service
By late June, Adler's infant command was beginning to function in
the routine fields of receipt, storage and issue, distribution, mainte-
nance, repair, overhaul, and salvage. Other duties requiring attention
were local procurement, manufacture of certain items, and various
responsibilities in connection with maintenance and repair work,
which by that time had begun at the Hindustan plant at Bangalore. T h e
command suffered with other organizations the common difficulties
of the theater a t this time-poor communications, shortage of motor
vehicles, dependence upon unskilled or semiskilled native labor, and
always the weather.82
T h e combat force of the Tenth proper was still limited to a hand-
ful of heavy bombers, some of them badly worn. Its combat opera-
tions continued, therefore, on the scale set by its earlier missions to
Burma. Turning on 2 5 May from its effort to assure the neutralization
of Myitkyina airfield, it struck again that night with five B-17's at
targets in the Rangoon area. One of the planes was forced to turn
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