“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 A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
5th Air Base Gp., 188, 220, 407
5th Air Depot Gp., 639-40
5th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
6th Bomb. Gp., 16;
7th Bomb. Gp., 183, 188, 192, 226,
3323 380-839 385, 412-139 4847 4941
497, 505: 5 ' 2
8th Pursuit Gp., 412, 424-25, 477
9th Bomb. Gp., 163
11th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
13th Bomb. Gp., 526
14th Fighter Gp., 644-46
15th Pursuit Gp., 171
16th Pursuit Gp., 163
Ijth Bomb. Gp., 439, 613-14
18th Pursuit Gp., 171
19th Bomb. Gp., 172-73, 178, 182-
83, 185, 189, 208, 223, 225, 381-
82, 387, 4'2-149 425, 4471 450, 480
20th Air Base Gp., 177
20th Pursuit Gp., 613
22d Bomb. Gp., 414. 425, 447, 479,
23d Air Base Gp., 166, 307
23d Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 492,
24th Pursuit Gp., 182-83, 186, 224,
27th Bomb. Gp., 162
27th Bomb. Gp., 183, 192, 222, 224,
28th Composite Gp., 166, 170, 307
31st Pursuit Gp., 615, 639-43; first
complete US. combat group in
ETO, 643; use of Spitfires, 643,
480-8 I
494-951 505, 5'2
405
226, 23% 3907 394, 414
646, 657
32d Pursuit Gp., 163
35th Air Base Gp., 422
35th Pursuit Gp., 183, 192, 386, 412,
37th Pursuit Gp., 163
38th Bomb. Gp., 414, 433-34
40th Bomb. Gp., 162
43d Bomb. Gp., 413, 526n
45th Bomb. Gp., 526
48th Bomb. Gp., 613
49th Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 412,
51st Air Base Gp., 484
51st Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 484,
52d Pursuit Gp., 613, 643, 646
b t h Transport Gp., 347, 640-43,
64th Troop Carrier Gp., 644, 648
4743 477
4'69 424, 4749476
4949 5 1 2
648
7 74
66th Obsn. Gp., 526-27
68th Obsn. Gp., 613
81% Air Depot Gp., 422
92d Bomb. Gp., 644, 646
96th Bomb. Gp., 526
97th Bomb. Gp., 299, 615, 639-43,
I 24th Obsn. Gp., 5 3 I
128th Obsn. Gp., 531
3 0 1 s Bomb. Gp., 455, 644, 646
303d Bomb. Gp., 455
435th Bomb. Gp., 479-80
Grumman (torpedo plane), 458
Guadalcanal, 433,447, 451, 470-71, 474
Guam, 427
Guatemala, 301
Gulf Sea Frontier, 518, 530-31, 534, 547
Gulf Task Force, $ 3 0 , 542
Gunn, Capt. P.I., 375
Gunnery deficiency, Eighth AF, 656-57
GYMNAST, 240,560,562,571-73, 612-15
646, 660-65
H
Haamstede, 659
Habbaniya, 329, 332, 338
Haiti, 321, 534
Hale, Maj. Gen. W.H., 457, 460
Haleiwa, 171, 199-200
Hallmark, Lt. D.E., 442
IHALPRO. See Halverson Det.
Halsey, Vice Adm. W.F., 440-41
Halverson, Col. H.A., 341, 493
Halverson Det., 341-42, 493, 5 0 5 , 526n
Hamilton Field, 172, 182, 189, 193, 199,
3321 3591 643
Hammer Field, 299, 643 n
Handley-Page bomber, 16, 37, 597
Hangchow, 444
Hansell, Maj. H.S., Jr., 50, 146
Harbord Board, 258
Harding, Lt. Col., N.B., 331
Harding, Pres. W.G., 25-26
Harmon, Maj. Gen. M.F., 257
Harmon Field, 156
Harriman, W.A., 1 3 3 , 578, 634
Harriman mission. See Moscow.
Harris, AM Sir Arthur, 253, 591, 594-95,
610, 622, 665
Harrisburg, 624
Hart, Liddell, 5 1
Hart, Adm. T.C., 191, 214, 370-71
Haruna, 216, 461, 469
Harvey, Maj. A.L., 318
Hastings Field, 329