“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 T O P A G E S 26-38
26. Ibid., pp. 271-72 and 287-90; 5 1 . Ibid., p. 88.
27. AAFHS-25, pp. 56-58.
28. Report of the Secretary of W a r ,
1921 (Washington, 1921), pp. 183 ff.; W a r , 1931 (Washingon, 1931)v P. 38.
Report of the Secretary of W a r , 19.22
(Washington, 19221,p. 163.
29. Report of the S I W , 1922, p. 261.
30. Zbid.
31. AAFHS-25, pp. 60-61. See also
text in N e w York T m e s , 19 Oct. 1923.
32. AAFHS-25, p. 62.
33. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 29399.
34. AAFHS-25, pp. 63-64.
35. 1bid.j pp. 65-67;Mitchell, Winged
36. AAFHS-25, pp. 62-63.
37. TO the Lampert Committee, 1935-43,pp. 4-6.
Patrick advocated a separate air force, 61. pp. 6-8.
not for the present but to be formed
after five or ten years. (Lampert Com-
mittee, Hearing, p. 533.) By 1928he was
(Patrick, United States in the Air, pp.
190-91.)
38. Charges of intimidation were
denied by interested authorities but seem
to have been well founded. (See Lampert
Committee, Hearing, passim and espe-
cially pp. 1667,1829,2377.)
39. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 30e317.
40. Ibid., pp. 318-20.
41. Ibid., chaps. 12-13.
4’. p’ 33‘, quoting New
43. AAFHS-25, pp. 68-69.
44. Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 2.
45. s. Doc. 18 (69th Cong.7 1st sess.).
See also text in N e w York Times, 3 Dec.
‘925.
46. H. Report 1653 (68th Cong., 2d
sess.); contents analyzed in N e w York
Times, 14 Dec. 1925.
Mitchell, Winged Defense, pp. 73-75. 52. War Department Press Release,
9 Jan. 1931;Annual Report of the Chief
Of Staff, in Report of the Secretfly O f
53. AAFHS-25, PP. 91-92.
54. Ibid., p. 93.
55. Baker Board, Final Report, 18
56.]bid., pp, 18-19.
57. Ibid., p. 75.
58.AAFHS-25, pp. 96-98.
59. Ibid., pp. 98-99.T h e reorganiza-
tion was authorized by AGO letter of
31 December 1934.
60.AAF Historical Study No. 10,
Organization of the Army Air Arm,
July 1934.
Defense, p. XIX.
62.‘bid., PP. 8-15.
63.Morrow Board, Hearings, p. 445.
favoring the Depament Of Ddense. 64. Maj. Warren R, Carter, AC, Em-
ployment of
1938.
65. Howard E. Coffin, quoted in
A.W. Sweetser, The American Air serv-
ice, p. 79.
66. Mitchell, “Our Army’s Air Serv-
ice,” American Review of Reviews,
LXII (Sept. 1920),pp. 281-90.
~i~ F ~ ~ ~ ~I2
67.Ibid.
68.Mitchell, Our Air Force: The
Keystone of National Defense, p. 12.
69.Mitchell, “The Air Service at St.
Mihiel,” World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Aug.
rg19), p. 365.
70. Mitchell, ‘(our h m y ’ s Air Serv-
ice;* lot. tit.
71. Mitchell, “The Air Service at St.
Mihiel,” lot. tit.
72. H.A. Jones, T h e W a r in the
Air, VI, 136.
73. Ibid.
74. Levine, Mitchell, pp. 148-50.
75. J.J. Pershin& MY Experiences in
76.Mitchell, Our Air Force, p. 55.
77. Ibid., Introduction, p. xxii.
Evening Post.
47. AAFHS-25, pp. 73-77.
48. Public No. 446 (69th Cong., in 44
Stat. 780ff.).
49. AAFHS-25, p. 83. The Baker
Board’s Final Report, page 7, laid the
blame on Congress.
the World W a r , 11, 337.
50. AAFHS-25, p. 8s.
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