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- 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 B A T T L E O F T H E A T L A N T I C
the Army Air Forces during December 1941and the early months of
1942. Although neither trained nor equipped specifically for the
purpose, Army units possessed aircraft whose range generally ex-
ceeded that of available Navy planes. As soon as the news of the
Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor arrived, the NANCF commander
requested the commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command
to undertake off shore patrols with all available aircraft. Accordingly,
on the afternoon of 8 December 1941,units of the I Bomber Com-
mand began flights over the ocean to the limit of their range.ls
But it was a motley array of planes that I Bomber Command assem-
bled in December to meet the submarine threat. At virtually the same
time that it was called upon to undertake overwater patrol duties, it
was stripped of the best-trained of its tactical units for missions on the
West Coast” and for overseas assignment. Every available Army
plane in the First Air Force capable of carrying a bomb load was
drafted to augment what was left of I Bomber Command. As a result
of these frantic efforts, approximately I O O aircraft of various two-
engine types were assembled and placed a t the disposal of the naval
commander. To this force, likened by one observer to Joffre’s taxi-
cab army of 1914, the I Air Support Command added substantial aid
in the way of reconnaissan~e.~~
By the middle of January ‘942, this Army patrol had gained a little
in strength and regularity of operation. T h e I Bomber Command was
by that time maintaining patrols a t the rate of two flights each day
from Westover Field, Massachusetts, Mitchel Field, New York, and
Langley Field, Virginia, and was in the process of inaugurating
similar missions from Bangor, Maine. These flights, averaging three
planes each, extended, weather permitting and according to the type
of plane, to a maximum distance of 600 miles to sea. The longer dis-
tances were covered only by the few B-17’s operating from Langley
Field, seldom more than nine of which were in commission. In addi-
tion to the aircraft of I Bomber Command, I Air Support Command
operated patrols during daylight hours in single-engine observation
planes extending about forty miles offshore from Portland, Maine, to
Wilmington, North Carolina. These planes were not armed, nor did
they carry sufficient fuel for more than two or three hours’ flying,
and not more than ten of them were maintained in the air along the
See above, Chap. 8.
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