“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 h X I T M E N T S T O C H I N A
veloped, and by American standards was grossly inefficient through-
out. Four different gauges of track required numerous extra handlings
of freight by slow-moving, physically weak native laborers. In eastern
India, further delays were imposed by the use of ferries instead of
bridges for crossing numerous streams; on the important Calcutta-
Assam line of communications, there existed not a single bridge over
the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries. T h e railways, already
weakened by a transfer of locomotives and rolling stock to Iran and
forced now to haul the products of the industrial centers of eastern
India which normally went by sea from Calcutta, were unable to
absorb American traffic without countless breakdowns and heart-
breaking delays. After a two-month voyage from the United States,
equipment generally took six additional weeks in moving from
Karachi to Assam. For goods to reach Kunming from Karachi, unless
entirely carried by air, it generally took longer than the voyage from
the United States.goThe highway system, which was in even worse
condition than the railroads, could not accommodate any appreciable
additional load. First-class, all-weather hiohways were rare, and even
these generally were too narrow to permit two-way traffic. The best
of them, too poorly graded and banked for efficient use by high-
speed vehicles, were frequently rendered impassable by monsoon
rains." Initially, however, the inadequacy of the highway system
hardly proved a major handicap, since very few trucks were available
to the Tenth. Because river boats ordinarily carried a considerable
volume of freight on the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, that means
of transportation was not overlooked in the early planning, and espe-
cially in plans for the movement of cargoes between Calcutta and
Assam. Unfortunately the river-boat fleets, like rolling stock, required
extensive replacements. Moreover, the railway system had not been
planned to complement the riverways; main railway lines frequently
paralleled the course of the rivers, and this was particularly true in
eastern India.sz T h e communication system presented equally disturb-
ing problems. Telegraph and telephone lines extended to practically
every section of the country, but equipment and methods were hope-
lessly outmoded for military purposes.93
In setting up an air transport service for aid in overcoming these
difficulties, still other problems were met. Existing airfields had been
located and constructed primarily with a view to commercial rather
than military needs. Runways were generally too short and too lightly
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