“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
The first shipment reached Liverpool on I I May, after a two-week
voyage. The several headquarters detachments joined the bomber
command staff at High Wycombe; the zd Air Depot Group went to
Molesworth, the I 5th Bombardment Squadron to Grafton Under-
wood, whence it moved to Molesworth in June.126 Destined to
become the first Eighth Air Force unit to enter combat, the 15th
Squadron began its training with RAF Bostons instead of the specially
equipped night fighters earlier intended for it.12'
Back in Washington the chief difficulty in moving the main part of
the ground echelon was to find the necessary shipping, a problem
that was not solved until the Queen Elizabeth was made available for
an early June trip and the War Department gave to the Eighth a
priority for the shipment of 15,000 troops in that month.128During
the preceding month, warning and movement orders reached the
several headquarters concerned, and from stations throughout the
country, but especially from the concentration area in the southeast,
the assigned units moved to Fort Dix, where the Eighth Air Force
had established its own temporary Staging Area Command to facili-
tate the final preparation^.^^' The first contingent of about 1,200
men, out of the total of more than 11,000, sailed on 29 May with a
slow convoy, which also carried 7,500 tons of Eighth Air Force
equipment, and did not reach England until 1 2 June. The remainder,
comprising chiefly the ground echelons of the 97th Bombardment
Group, the 1st and 3 1st Fighter Groups, the 60th Transport Group,"
the 5th Air Depot Group, and other service units, left New York
aboard the Queen Elizabeth on 4 June and arrived in the United
Kingdom six days later.13' Everything considered, the movement had
been completed remarkably close to the date originally set. A critical
shortage of shipping continued, but high priorities were accorded
additional bomber, fighter, transport, and service units that were to
follow during the summer.lS1
Even so, the prospect of an early commitment of the Eighth to
battle depended upon a plan to fly its planes and aircrews across the
Atlantic. This plan, which covered the intended movement of fighters
as well as bombers, represented at the time a more daring decision
than would be true of any similar action today. In early 1942, AAF
pilots were becoming accustomed to long and hazardous overwater
flights, but the AAF had not as yet made the idea commonplace. RAF
*Transport units were redesignated "troop carrier" in July 1942.
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