“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 E I G H T H A I R F O R C E
ment of a well-rounded American air organization in England, the
Eighth Air Force remained heavily dependent upon the RAF. For
some time yet, much of the heavy repair work on its engines, air-
frames, and propellers would be done by RAF No. 24 Maintenance
Unit and by British workmen at Burtonwood, and all of the salvage
work, of importance at a time when planes and spare parts were
scarce, by RAF No. 43 Group.”‘ When because of the shortage of
shipping and other difficulties AAF units arrived without their organic
equipment and supplies, the RAF furnished hundreds of items-am-
munition, bombs, vehicles, tools, spares, flying clothing-to supply the
deficiencies. Again, when for the purpose at hand certain items of
British equipment, for example, pyrotechnics, synthetic training de-
vices, dinghies, and certain items of radio and electrical equipment,
were found to be superior to that of the Americans, the British made
their procurement possible. When unanticipated requirements for new
equipment and new types of supplies arose from operational needs,
the British provided them or assisted in securing their manufacture
in the United Kingdom.lS7In addition, the RAF continued to pro-
vide training as required for aircrews, ground crews, technicians, and
other specialists.’s8
By way of summation, the historian can do no better than to quote
from the warm tribute of General Eaker in his report to General
Spaatz of 19 June on the “Work of the Advance Echelon.” l S 9 The
British, he wrote,
in whose theater we have been understudying and operating for the past five
months, have co-operated one hundred per cent in every regard. They have
lent us personnel when we had none, and have furnished us clerical and ad-
ministrative staffs; they have furnished us liaison officers for Intelligence,
Operations and Supply: they have furnished us transportation; they have
housed and fed our people, and they have answered promptly and willingly
all our requisitions: in addition they have made available to us for study their
most secret devices and documents. W e are extremely proud of the relations
we have been able to establish between our British Allies and ourselves, and we
are very hopeful that the present basis can be continued, and that all incoming
staff and tactical commanders will take the same pains we have to nurture and
maintain the excellent relations which now exist.
Implicit in all of the arrangements being made in the United King-
dom was the belief that the build-up.of American air power in the
European theater would take place within the time and on the scale
proposed in the spring of 1942by way of preparation for Operation
ROUNDUP. T o complement this strategic plan for the invasion of
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