“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…
I N D E X
Commerce, Dept. of, 29, 55
Committee to Defend America by Aid-
ing the Allies, 127
Communications, 55, 1 5 2 , 155-59, 169,
186, 188, 242, 344-48, 419, 423, 447, 476,
494, 7 1 1 , 625-26, 644-45. See also
Radar:
Composite group, defined, 156 n
Cone. Capt. R.A.. 465. . -
Connally,'Lt. J.B., 205 n, 381
Connell, Col. Carl, 482
Consolidated Aircraft COT., 280, 359-60
Contract Air Cargo Div. (ASC), 36c-62
Convoys, question of protection, 533,
5459 5 5 2
Coolidge, President, 25, 28
Cooper, Col. M.C., 499
Coral Sea. Battle of, 444-51, 471, 480-83
COTS: I (1918), 13; V, 240
corps areas, air relations with, 31-32
Corregidor, 186, 203, 2 2 3 , 225, 366, 388,
Costa Rica, 1 2 5
Council of National Defense, 7
Cousland, Lt. Col. C.W., 656
Cowdray Air Board, 7
Crimmins, Lt. Fred, 2 1 2
Crowell mission, 23-24
CRYSTAL weather stations, 345-47
Cuba, 3 2 1 , 534
CuraGao, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Currie, Lauchlin, 486
Curry, Rep. Charles, 29
CUT~~TT,432
Curtiss NBS-4, 58
Curtiss-Wright, 488
Cyrenaica, 341
4049 406-7, 4'7
CUrtiSS xo-35, 59
D
Dains, Lt. J.L.,199
Dakar, 240
Dale, Lt., 467
Daly Waters, 2 3 0 , 385, 422
Danish-U.S. agreement, 122, 343
Darwin, 178-79, 182-84, 222-24, 228, 230-
3 3 , 3 5 3 , 3727 375-77, 385-87, 3 9 - 9 6
407-11, 414-16, 421-249 474-76
Davao, 223-24, 2 3 1 , 376-78, 404%418
Davao Gulf, 2 2 3 , 378
Davidson, Brig. Gen. H.C., 454
Dav-ies, Col. J.H., 224, 230, 414, 418
Davis, Lt. Col. E.S., 169, 277
Davison, Col. Donald, 636
Daylight vs. night bombardment, 59, 5 7 ~ ~
Dayton, 55, 358
DC-3: characteristics, 502; in air trans-
Defense Aid Supply Comm., 1 3 0
De Havilland 4 bomber, 8-10, 57
De Kooy, 659
Del Carmen Field, 186, 203, 2 9 , 2 1 1 , 218,
Delehanty, T/Sgt. W.J., 217
Del Monte, 188-89, 208-11, 214, 21p-20,
Denmark, 90, 1 2 2 , 343, 345
Denpasar airfield, 397
Deployment of air strength, 138-41, 147,
Deshazer, Cpl. Jacob, 4 4 2
Deutsche Lufthansa, 86
DeWitt, Lt. Gen. J.L., 279, 294, 308
Dickman Board, 23-24, 43
Dili, 4!4
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John, 253
Dinjan, 329, 498-502, 505, 507-9, 512
Dive bombing, 457, 461, 598
Dixon, Lt. J.W., 466
Djombang, 384
Doenitz, Adm. Karl, 5 1 5 , 5 3 5
Dolan, Col. W.C., 5 5 1
Dominican Republic, 3 2 I
Donalson, Lt. Jack, z 12
Doolittle, Brig. Gen. J.H., 31, 614
Doolittle raid, 298, 438-44, 451, 498,
Dornier aircraft company, 85
Dorval airport, 344
Dougherty, Lt. J.E., 380
Douglas Aircraft Co., 69
Douhet, Giulio, 35, 43, 51, 82-84, 604
Dow Field, 299, 641, 643 n
Drum, Lt. Gen. H.A., 30, 294, 526,
Drum Board, 3 0 - 3 1 , 47-48, 66-67
Dufrane, Capt. J.L., 386-89
Duke of York, 238
Dum Durn, 500-501
Duncan, Brig. Gen. A.N., 571, 612-14,
Duncan, Col. C.E., 646
Duncan Field, 113
Dunkirk, 90, 94
Dunlop, Capt., 468
Dutch. See Netherlands East Indies.
Dutch Harbor, 126, 168, 303-7, 464-69
Dyes, Cap. W.E., Jr., 405
91-61 I, 663, 667
port, 325, 358, 364, 498-99
2 2 3
223-25, 372, 381, 404-7. 418, 426
151-93. 560-61, 569, 652
506
528
616
771