“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…
P L A N S , P O L I C I E S , A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N
OBIECTl VES
5. Objectives suitable for the day bomber offensive under Phases I and
z are listed in the attachment hereto. The target list for Phase 3 will be issued
later.
ROLE OF BRITISH DAY BOMBER FORCE
6. During the development of the day offensive, British day bomber
forces are to be used in the secondary role to add weight to British diver-
sionary operations and to maintain the attacks during periods unsuitable for
the operation of the American heavy day bombers.
MACHINERY FOR IMPLEMENTING T H E PLAN
7. During Phase I , it will be the responsibility of the Commanding
General of the American Bomber Command to initiate offensive opera-
tions, making preliminary arrangements for fighter co-operation with the
Commanding General, the American Fighter Command. It will be the re-
sponsibility of the latter to ensure full consultation with the Air Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command. When the general plan is settled,
it will be the responsibility of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter
Command to nominate the British Fighter Group Commander, who is to
draw up the detailed fighter plans, reinforcing the Fighter Group as neces-
sary in conjunction with the Commanding General, American Fighter Com-
mand in respect of American pursuit reinforcements. Thereafter, detailed
planning and the conduct of the fighter operation will be the responsibility
of the Commanding General, American Bomber Command, and the British
Fighter Group Commander concerned.
8. When Phase 3 is reached, it will be the responsibility of the Com-
manding Generals of the American Bomber and Fighter Commands together
to make the general and detailed plans and to conduct the operations under
the direction of the Commanding General, 8th Air Force. It will be the
responsibility of the Commanding General of the American Fighter Com-
mand to arrange with the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Com-
mand for such ground facilities and fighter co-operation as may be required
from the British Fighter Command.
9. The Air Officers Commanding-in-Chief, Bomber, Fighter and Coastal
Commands, and the Commanding Generals of the American Bomber and
Fighter Commands will at all times keep each other informed of operational
intentions and together make such adjustments to plans as may be necessary
to ensure proper co-ordination.
10. At some moment during Phase z it will be necessary to change from
the co-ordination machinery for Phase I to that agreed for Phase 3. The
moment of change-over will be decided by the Commanding General, 8th
Air Force and the British Air Ministry (hC.A.S.(Ops) ) conjointly, having
regard to the available strength of American pursuit forces available which
are armed with American type fighters, and the degree of operational ex-
perience which they have acquired.227