“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…
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another volume." But in the meantime, before the diversion to Africa
had won out over ROUNDUP, the Eighth Air Force had been
incorporated into the theater command system.
On 8 June the European Theater of Operations was established by
presidential directive and General Chaney, as commanding general
of USAFBI, was designated as commander of all U.S. forces therein.
His mission was to make preparation for and to carry on military
operations against the Axis powers in the European theater in accord-
ance with strategical directives issued by the Combined Chiefs of
Staff and through the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.14' No specific
reference was made to the air arm, but on 10 June Arnold sent to
Eisenhower, and to Chaney and other commanders in the United
Kingdom a description of the AAF's current concept of the air force
organization for BOLERO during the period before the formation of
the invasion task Substantially, this repeated the ideas ex-
pressed by Spaatz in May. Arnold expressed confidence that Chaney
was "in full accord" with these views, but that was now a matter of
little import. General Chaney's incumbency in his new office was
brief-hardly more than an honorific reward for a year of service in
England. H e left for the States on 2 0 June 14' to serve successively in
several posts in the Zone of the Interior, and to finish the war as
island commander of Iwo Jima. On V-J Day, probably few Arner-
icans remembered that General Chaney had once held, in another
island, what was potentially the most important command in any
theater. At any rate, it was left for his successor to establish the Eighth
Air Force within the ETO structure.
When Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz arrived in London, they
each bore a guide for that task in the form of their respective letters
of instruction. Spaatz had received verbal instructions from Arnold
and his letter was brief; dealing exclusively with channels of com-
munication, it authorized direct correspondence between Spaatz and
Arnold, Spaatz and Lord Louis Mountbatten (as chief of combined
operations), and between the Eighth Air Force intelligence section
and the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, A-2, in W a ~ h i n g t o n . ' ~ ~Eisen-
hower's letter, more detailed, constituted the real directive under
which the AAF was to operate in the United Kingdom.14' All air
units initially based there were to be integrated into the Eighth Air
Force. General Spaatz as commander was to have his own headquar-
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