“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
that of preparation for the support of ground operations not yet
definitely scheduled, the command a t the time had only one unit
assigned to it and that, the 15th Bombardment Squadron, was
actually attached to the VIII Bomber Command for its current oper-
a t i o n ~ . ~ ~ ~In August the VIII Ground Air Support Command took
control of a troop carrier wing whose two groups, the 60th and 64th,
were stationed a t Aldermaston and Ramsbury, both places in the
vicinity of Membury.168
Under Brig. Gen. Charles C. Chauncey, the VIII Air Force Com-
posite Command in September set up temporary headqyrters at Long
Kesh, an RAF station southwest of Be1fa~t.l~'It carried forward
plans for an ambitious program of training, but it would'remain for
over a year without a job to do beyond that of planning. While the
Eighth remained a relatively small organization, 'operational training
continued to be predominantly a unit affair coeducted on the home
bases of the several groups.
Maj. Gen. Walter H. Frank and the headquarters of the VIII Air
Force Service Command arrived early in July. Because its responsi-
bility for supply and maintenance included every element in the
Eighth Air Force, the service command's relationship to the force
headquarters and to the several commands was both close and constant.
Consequently, General Frank, who as commanding general of the
Third Air Force had been actively identified with the origins pf the
Eighth, set up his headquarters at Bushy Park.17' The need for close
co-ordination between the VIII Air Force Service Command and its
parent organization was thus recognized in their close physical
proximity; the same need would result in 1944 in the integration of
the two headquarters into a single operational and logistical organiza-
tion. Meanwhile, in August I 942 the service command established
two subcommands, known as service areas, for the direction of activi-
ties respectively in Ireland and in England and Wales.171 Under the
service command, too, the 12th Replacement Control Depot took
over responsibility for receipt and process of incoming casual and
filler personnel. Its stations at Stone in Staffordshire and Chorley in
Lancashire would become familiar to hundreds of thousands of air
force officers and enlisted men during the next three years.172
T h e European Theater of Operations United States h y
(ETOUSA) having replaced USAFBI shortly before the assumption
of the new command by Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on 24
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