“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 B A T T L E O F T H E A T L A N T I C
of a French aircraft carrier a t Martinique continued to lend an air of
immediacy to the threat which originally had determined this mission,
and it was doubtless for this reason that the Antilles Air Task Force
never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an organization shaped
for the primary purpose of antisubmarine warfare. Indeed, by the
fall of 1942 plans were under way for extending the activity of
I Bomber Command, in its as yet unofficial capacity as the AAF
antisubmarine force, to bases in the Caribbean; and in August, a few
B-18’s of its 40th Bombardment Squadron had been in fact sent on
detached service to the Puerto Rican and Trinidad areas. This ex-
periment in sending antisubmarine forces to outlying bases on a
detached service status proved administratively unsatisfactory, but
plans nevertheless continued to point toward I Bomber Command as
the organization that would be responsible for AAF specialized anti-
submarine activity wherever it might be undertaken:’
When on 1 5 October 1942 the I Bomber Command became the
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command with a materially ex-
panded mission, it was still a comparatively small organization and
one as yet inadequately trained and equipped for its task. From a
high point of 216 planes in July, a point reached just after the
submarine menace within the area of its operations had begun to
decline, the I Bomber Command had suffered a decrease in combat
strength until in October it reported only 148 aircraft. Of these,
twelve were B-17’s, fourteen B-I S’s, thirty-five B-zs’s, and three
B-24’s; the rest, a mixture of A-ZO’S,A-zg’s, and B-34’s, lacked suffi-
cient range for anything except strictly coastal patrol. Some twenty-
seven planes were a t this time equipped with radar; this number, too,
represented a marked decline since July. But the command had made
great progress toward becoming an effective antisubmarine striking
force. It had accumulated the many benefits of a wide and varied
experience, and its personnel stood ready to provide effective leader-
ship in the definition of tactical doctrine, the shaping of training,
and the adaptation of equipment to the peculiar requirements of a
larger mission. It had come to be recognized that the long-range B-24
was especially well suited to the demands of antisubmarine warfare,
and in September the command had received the first of the planes
that would thereafter become the principal reliance in the AAF’s
antisubmarine effort.“O
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