“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
constructed for use by either speedy pursuits or fully loaded bombers
and transports. Repair and maintenance facilities, in addition to quar-
ters for personnel, had to be provided on existing fields, while strategic
requirements called for the construction of many entirely new in-
stallations. Local materials and native labor had to be used, which
proved another retarding
Another problem was the climate. India has been fittingly described
as “too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry.” Excessive rainfall during the
wet monsoon retarded construction and restricted operations; dust
conditions during the dry season caused heavy wear on aircraft en-
gines. In those sections of the country in which Americans were
stationed, the greatest trouble arose from the effects of excessive heat
and humidity on personnel. Reduced resistance as a result of the
enervating climate tended to make them easy victims of the many
endemic diseases. Only constant alertness could prevent malaria,
typhus, cholera, heat rash, and fungus growths from seriously crip-
pling the air forceeQ5
Yet, by the end of June 1942 appreciable progress had been made
in establishing the Tenth Air Force and preparing for postmonsoon
operations. Approximately 600 officers and 5,000 enlisted men were
on hand, while aircraft strength had increased sufficiently to permit
a general eastward deployment of combat units. The I I th Bombard-
ment Squadron (M), the 16th Squadron of the 51st Fighter Group,
and the three squadrons of the 23d Fighter Group were already in
Kunming; headquarters of the 7th Bombardment Group had moved
to Barrackpore, near Calcutta, while its two heavy squadrons, the 9th
and 436th, were established at Allahabad; advance parties of the two
remaining squadrons of the 51st Group were in Dinjan to prepare
for the arrival of its air echelon; and the zzd Squadron (M) was
expected to begin operations from Andal at the end of the monsoon.Qs
But before June had run its course, the build-up of the Tenth
received a serious setback. The Combined Chiefs of Staff had re-
garded the Middle East and Far East theaters ‘as interdependent, and
had stipulated that plans for their reinforcement should remain flexi-
ble in order that units might be shifted on short notice to whichever
area appeared to have the greater need.g7And now in Africa, Rommel
again had the advantage over the British, was indeed in position to
challenge the whole Allied cause in the Middle East. Consequently,
on 2 3 June, General Brereton received orders to proceed to the
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