“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
operating bases south of Langley Field and for increased mobility on
the part of the units under his command in order that advantage might
be taken of a wider operating area.2s
Any doubts regarding the necessity for extending the antisubma-
rine activity of the AAF and for increasing the mobility of its units
were dispelled during the next two months by the Germans them-
selves who began rapidly to shift the emphasis of their attack toward
the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean areas. This move on the part of
the enemy found American defenses again unprepared, and the shift
in operating area was accompanied by a sharp rise in the number of
merchant ships lost in the coastal waters. In April, twenty-three ships
were lost in the Eastern Sea Frontier, as compared to two in the Gulf
Sea Frontier. In May, the number lost to submarine action in the
former dropped to five, while the corresponding figure for the latter
rose to forty-one. This total of forty-six merchant vessels lost during
the month represents the high point in the U-boat offensive in the
two home sea frontiers.2T
In answer to an urgent request from the commander of the Gulf
Sea Frontier for air reinforcement, a detachment of twenty B-18’s
was sent south; and shortly thereafter, on 26 May, Maj. Gen. Follett
Bradley, commanding general of the First Air Force, set up the Gulf
Task Force of the I Bomber Command. This new organization was
composed initially of the detachment of B-r 8’s mentioned above, to-
gether with two observation squadrons (the 97th and 66th) and all
units of the Civil Air Patrol then engaged in antisubmarine patrol in
the Gulf Sea Frontier. Its headquarters, temporarily located at
Charleston, South Carolina, was ultimately established a t Miami,
Florida. The command relationship between the Gulf Task Force and
the Gulf Sea Frontier was similar to that which existed between the
I Bomber Command and the Eastern Sea Frontier.28
It soon became evident that the need for Army air patrol in the
Gulf area exceeded the ability of this small task force to meet it.
Accordingly, a few days after it had been established, General Arnold
requested the Third Air Force to use certain of its training units for
antisubmarine patrol in the course of their regular overwater training
missions, such flights to be directed by the Gulf Task Force. For its
part, Third Air Force, various units of which had maintained sporadic
patrols of the Florida and Gulf areas since December 1941,proposed
to place eight B- I 7’s, operating from Barksdale Field, Louisiana, and
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