“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…
N O T E S
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NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
I . Howard E. Coffin, quoted in New
2 . A.W. Sweetser, T h e Americun Air
3. Zbid., pp. 230-31.
4. Zbid., chap. 5 .
5. N e w York Times, 10 June 1917.
6. Dr. C.D. Walcott of NACA, quoted
in Sweetser, op. cit., p. 45.
7. E.S. Gorrell, T h e Measure o f Amer-
ica’s World W a r Aeronautical Effort
(Northfield, Vt., 19401, p. 2 .
York Times, 14 June 1917.
Service (New York, 1 9 1 9 ) ~pp. 66-68.
8. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 16.
9. G.W. Mixter and H.H. Emmons,
U.S. A r m y Aircraft Production Facts
(Washington, 1919), p. 5 .
10. J.J. Pershing, My Experiences in
the World W a r (New York, 19311, I,
27.
1 1 . Sweetser, op. cit., p. 46.
1 2 . Zbid., p. 54; Mixter and Emmons,
op. cit., p. 5 .
13. J.M. Spaight, T h e Beginnings of
Organized Air Power: A Historical
Study (London, 1 9 2 7 ) ~p. 239.
14. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 93, n. I , quot-
ing the legislation.
15. Spaight, op. cit., pp. 238-45, based
largely on Sweetser.
16. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 190ff.
17. Zbid., chaps. vi and vii.
18. Ibid., pp. 210-17.
19. Zbid., pp. 218-19, 238; Spaight, op.
20. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 220ff.
2 I . Zbid., pp. 240, 247-48. Spaight , ( o p .
Cit., pp. 279-88) summarizes statistics
from various sources.
22. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 232-33.
23. Pershing, op. cit., I, 161-62.
cit., pp. 2 4 6 5 1 .
24. M.M. Patrick, T h e United States
in the Air (New York, 1928), p. 1 5 .
2 5 . H.A. Toulmin, Jr., Air Service,
A.E.F., rp18 (New York, 1927), pp. 74-
78. 26. Patrick, op. cit., p. 16.
2 7 . Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29 (table);
Pershing, op. cit., 11, 61.
28. Patrick, op. cit., pp. 1-16; Toul-
min, op. cit., chap. vi.
29. Patrick, op. cit., p. 17. Here he
gives the previous goal as 354 squadrons.
30. Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29.
3 1 . Final Report of Chief of Air Serv-
ice, A.E.F. (Washington, 1921).
3 2 . Details in this section are taken
from the best of the Mitchell biographies:
Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of
Air Power (New York, 1943).
3 3 . For quotations see ibid., 92-94.
35. Zbid., pp. 97-100,
36. Zbid., p. 108.
3 7 , Final Report.. ., A.E.F., passim.
Another summary of the participation of
American air units in the war will be
found in [Clayton L. Bisselll Brief His-
tory of the Air Corps and Its Late De-
velopment (Air Corps Tactical School,
Langley Field, Va., [19271), pp. 33-65.
38. William Mitchell, “The Air Serv-
ice at St. Mihiel,” World’s W o r k ,
XXXVIII (Aug., 1919), 360-70; Final Re-
port ..., A.E.F.
39. Quotations and general concept of
the battle taken from William Mitchell,
“The Air Service a t the Argonne-Meuse,”
World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Sept. 1919),
5 5 2 - 6 0 ; Final Report.. . , A.E.F.
40. Quoted in Special AAF Historical
Study, Review of Aerial Warfare for the
Scientific Advisory Board (Jan. 1945),
p. 3.
34. ]bid., pp. 95-97.
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