“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
Fort Hertz, 502
Fort Lamy, 3 2 0
Fort Mears, 466-57
Fort Myers, 341
Fort Nelson, 277
Fort Randall, 465-66, 468
Fortress. See B-17.
Fort Richardson, 464
Fort Santiago, 204
Fort Stotsenburg, z 10
Foulois, Maj. Gen. B.D., 10, 2 1 , 63
France: Air Div., 14; High Commission,
433-34; lend-lease, 129; World War 1,
5-6, 1-14; World War 11, 76, 90, 330,
563-64, 571, 592, 663. See also Free
French; French Air Force.
France Field, 162-63
Frank, Maj. Gen. W.H., 50; CG VIII
Frankfurt, 26
Fredendall, Maj. Gen. L.R., 612
Free French, 180-81, 432-33
Freeman, ACM Sir Wilfred, 602
Freerks, Lt. M.C., 468
Freetown, 320, 494
Fremantle, 396-98, 484
French Air Force, 90-91
French Equatorial Africa, 320, 3 3 0
French Indo-China, I 89
French Northwest Africa, 240
Frobisher Bay, 346
Fry, Col. R.L., 422
AFSC, 648-50; CG Third AF, 648
G
G-3 (WDGS), 146
G-4 (WDGS), 256
Galapagos IS., 124, 301-2
Galliene, Lt. W.H., 394
Galveston, 5 3 I
Gambia, 3 2 0
Gambonini, Lt. P.B., 387
Gander Lake, 122, 318, 342-43, 345, 348,
Ganges R., 5 1 1
Garfield, 192
Gasmata, 414, 472
Gates, Lt. Col. B.E., 262
Gatty, Harold, 424
Geclong, 4 2 2
General Headquarters ( W D ) , 141, 258-
62; abolished, 264; proposed, 20, 26, 63;
relationship to AAF, 261
General Headquarters Air Force, 23, 49-
260, 5 2 1 , 599; CG, 3 1 - 1 2 , 68, 70; estab-
645
5 1 , 63-64, 69-70? 1 1 5 9 119, 152-547 2 5 %
lished, 31, 47, 67; mission, 67-68, 1 1 2 ,
114; proposed, 30, 43, 45-48; wings, 3 1
General Headquarters Air Force (Prov.),
64
General Staff ( W D ) , 6, 8, 18, 2 0 - 1 1 , 24,
26-32, 3 5 , 43, 45, 49, 5 3 , 65-69, 1 1 5 7 1467
173-74, 232, 256, 259, 262, 264, 563, 5%
586. See also Chief of Staff; WDGS
divs. by name.
George, Brig. Gen. H.H., 207, 225, 405,
407,418
George, Maj. Gen. H.L., 50, 146, 336,
349, 365, $41
German Air Force, 85-92, 95-97, 99;
aircraft types, 88-89, 95. 122; develop-
ment, 75-76; mission, 88; organization,
05; strength, 86, 89, 94
Germany: Air illinistry, 87; as first pri-
oritv target, 2!8, 410, 559; Defense
hlinistry, 88; High Command, 99, 5 1 5 ;
Ministry of Transport, 86; Supreme
Military Staff, 88
Gerow, Brig. Gen. L.T., 2 3 2
Ghormley, Vice Adm. R.L., 473, 594
Gilbert Is.. 189
Giles, Col. B.F., 157, 349
Glover, Lt. J.G., 393
Goering, Hermann, 5 1 , 86-87, 99, 603
Gold Coast Colony, 3 2 0 , 331
Good Hope, Cape of, 494
Goose Bay, 343-44, 356, 43G48, 641, 644
Grady, H.F., 496, 5 1 0
Grafton Underwood, 631, 640, 661
Great Falls, 358
Green, Maj. Gen. J.A., 187
Greening, Capt. C.R., 439
Greenland, 1 2 0 , 122-24, 155, 157-58, 193,
Greenland Base Comd., 157, 349
Grenier Field, 641-43
Griffith, Maj. J.L., 658
Ground controlled interception radar,
Groups:
342-457 347-48, 3 5 6 361, 6-41-44
288, 2 9 1
1st Ferrying Gp., 340, 494, 507
1st Pursuit Gp., 278, 299, 615, 639-
1st Sea-Search Attack Gp., 550
rd Air Depot Gp., 615, 639-40
2d Bomb. Gp., 59, 526
3d Air Depot Gp., 394, 508
3d Bomb. Gp., 414, 425, 480
4th Air Depot Gp., 422
4th Composite Gp., Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
4th Fighter Gp., 657
43. 646
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