“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
all planes-forty-nine B-I 7's, eighty P-38's, and fifty-two C-47's-
would proceed to Presque Isle, where they would be organized for
the movement into squadrons of three flights each, each flight to
comprise two elements, and each element to consist of one B-17 and
four P-38's. The B-17's not required for escort under this arrangement
also would make the flight in small elements.14' The hardy C-47, as
befitted its mission, in addition to getting itself to England, would
carry a cargo of freight.
The first planes, eighteen B-I~'s,took off from Presque Isle on 2 3
June for Goose Bay, where before the day was over all of the big
bombers had come in.148Three days later these planes left for BLUIE
W E S T I and 8, but only nine reached their destination safely, six
having turned back to Goose Bay and the other three having been
forced down along the coast of Greenland. The crews of the wrecked
bombers were all saved, but weather and communications were fully
revealed as the major difficulties governing the use of the route. Also on
2 3 June the first flights of P-38's safely negotiated the initial leg from
Presque Isle to Goose Bay. Additional flights proceeded, as weather and
other circumstances permitted, without mishap until I 5 July, when six
P-38's and two B-17's came down on the ice cap on the eastern coast
of Greenland. For this misfortune, which all crews survived, unfavor-
able weather and misleading directional broadcasts by the enemy were
blamed."g O n I July, the first American-operated tactical aircraft to
reach the United Kingdom by air in World War 11-B-17 No. 19085-
landed a t P r e ~ t w i c k . ~ ~ ~Twenty-six days later, Col. Newton Long-
fellow brought into the British terminal the last planes of this first
BOLERO air movement.151The AAF had estimated that losses would
run as high as 10 per cent;152 yet despite extremely unfavorable
weather which seriously delayed the mo~ement,"~it had been accom-
plished with the loss of few planes and with no serious injury to any
of the personnel engaged in it.
A second movement followed hard upon the first, so close, in fact,
as already to suggest the parallel of a pipeline extending from Presque
Isle to Prestwick. The ground echelons of the 92d and 301st Bom-
bardment Groups (H), of the 14th Fighter Group, and of the 64th
Troop Carrier Group had moved to the port of embarkation in July
and left for the United Kingdom late that month and in early
Simultaneously, their air echelons moved into a north-
eastern concentration area preparatory to a take-off from Presque
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